Haymarket Affair Digital Collection

[McCormick Reaper Works].
[ca. 1890]
1 photographic print: b&w; 5 7/8 x 7 3/4 in.
Gift of Thierry McCormick, 1964 (CHS ICHi 14448).

The Haymarket meeting of May 4, 1886 was called in response to the violence that occurred between striking workers and Chicago police officers at the McCormick Reaper Works on May 3, 1886.

The McCormick Reaper Works, Chicago (Ill.), located on the South Branch of the Chicago River, near the intersection of Blue Island Avenue and Western Avenue.

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McCormick Reaper Works, photo