Monuments relating to the Haymarket affair
There are several monuments to commemorate the Haymarket affair.
Workers finish installing Gelert's statue of a Chicago policeman in Haymarket Square, 1889. The statue was destroyed by a bomb in 1969 and a replica now stands at the Chicago Police Headquarters.
Place of the great riot, Chicago, Ill, by Kilburn, B. W. (Benjamin West), 1827-1909 (cropped)
The statue-less pedestal of the police monument on the 100th anniversary of the Haymarket affair in May 1986; the pedestal has since been removed.
The statue at Chicago Police headquarters (photographed in 2015).
Johannes Sophus Gelert (1852–1923) was a Danish-born sculptor, who came to the United States in 1887 and during a span of more than thirty years produced numerous works of civic art in the Midwest and on the East Coast.
Johannes Gelert
Portrait medallions at the Auditorium Theatre 1963
St. Augustine at Frederik's Church in Copenhagen, 1885
Haymarket Memorial in Chicago, 1889