Haymarket Martyrs' Monument, (sculpture)

Object Details

National Historic Landmark Nomination form, 1997.; Dabakis, Melissa, "Visualizing Labor in American Sculpture Monuments, Manliness, and the Work Ethic, 1880-1935," Cambridge Univ. Press, 1999.; Green, James, "Taking History to Heart: the Power of the Past in Building Social Movements," Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 2000.; Berchem-Nigg, Kenneth, 2006.
Summary: The monument consists of a tall granite shaft supported by a two stepped base, on which stand two bronze figures--a woman standing over a male worker. The woman representing Justice and wearing a cape with hooded head, a smock and apron, holds a laurel wreath in her proper left hand above the man's head. The reclining male figure, representing the fallen worker, is dressed in overalls, his head thrown back on a pillow.

Commissioned 1890. Cornerstone laid Nov. 6, 1892. Dedicated June 25, 1893

Owner/Location: Administered by Illinois Labor History Society 28 East Jackson Chicago Illinois 60604; Located Forest Home/Waldheim Cemetery 863 South Des Plaines Avenue Forest Park Illinois 60130

Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums

Topic: History--United States--Labor History; Figure female--Full length; Figure male--Full length; Allegory--Quality--Justice; Object--Foliage--Laurel; State of Being--Death--Hanging; Homage--Spies, August; Homage--Fischer, Adolph; Homage--Parsons, Albert; Homage--Lingg, Louis; Homage--Engel, George