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    		• Gelert, Johannes Sophus,
     
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    		• Berchem, Jules,
     
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    		• American Bronze Company,
     
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    		• History -- United States
     
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    		• Figure male -- Full length
     
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    		• Occupation -- Service
     
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    		• Dress -- Uniform
     
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    		• Outdoor Sculpture -- Illinois -- Chicago
     
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    		• Sculpture
     
     
    Haymarket Riot Monument, (sculpture).
    Artist: 
    Gelert, Johannes Sophus, 1852-1923, sculptor.
    Berchem, Jules, 1855-1930, caster.
    American Bronze Company, founder.
    Title: 
    Haymarket Riot Monument, (sculpture).
    Dates: 
    1888. Dedicated May 30, 1889. Relocated 1900. Relocated 1927. Relocated 1958. Relocated 1972. Relocated 1976.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image Image Image
    Medium: 
    Sculpture: bronze; Base: granite with concrete pad.
    Dimensions: 
    Sculpture: approx. 9 ft. x 35 1/2 in. x 31 3/4 in.; Base: approx. 27 in. x 7 ft. 11 in. x 7 ft. 11 in. including 7 inch high concrete pad.
    Inscription: 
    J. Gelert sculptor 1888/American Bronze Co. Chi. IL (On sculpture:) J.B. signed Founder's mark appears.
    Description: 
    Figure of a policeman dressed in characteristic nineteenth-century police uniform, his right arm raised as if stopping someone.
    Subject: 
    History -- United States -- Labor History
    Figure male -- Full length
    Occupation -- Service -- Policeman
    Dress -- Uniform -- Police Uniform
    Object Type: 
    Outdoor Sculpture -- Illinois -- Chicago
    Sculpture
    Owner: 
    Administered by Chicago Park District, Preservation Planning Division, 425 East McFetridge Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60605
    Located Chicago Police Training Center, 1300 West Jackson Boulevard, Courtyard, Chicago, Illinois 60612.
    Provenance: 
    Formerly located Central Police Headquarters, Lobby, South State Street, Chicago, Illinois 1972-1976.
    Formerly located Haymarket Square, Randolph Street and Kennedy Expressway, Chicago, Illinois 1958-February 1972.
    Formerly located Union Park, Chicago, Illinois 1927-1958.
    Formerly located Union Park, Randolph and Ogden streets, Chicago, Illinois 1900-May 4, 1927.
    Formerly located Haymarket Square, Chicago, Illinois May 30, 1889-1900.
    Remarks: 
    This memorial to the policemen killed in the Haymarket Riots on May 4, 1886, has been moved five times. It was first erected on a pedestal in the middle of Haymarket Square, but was defaced and regarded as a traffic hazard, so it was moved to Union Park. On May 4, 1927, a street car jumped the tracks and rammed the monument knocking the statue off its base. The monument was moved to another location in Union Park, and in 1958 it was brought back to the Haymarket area to a special platform built for it near Randolph Street. It was bombed twice, in 1969 and 1970, and in February 1972 it was moved to the lobby of Central Police Headquarters. Finally in October 1976 it was moved and rededicated in the garden of the Police Training Center. The original base with its inscription --In the name of the people of Illinois I command peace -- remains at Randolph and Kennedy. IAS files contain an extensive report which details the history of the Haymarket Riot Monument and its relocations. The report includes a transcription of the inscription which appears on the Randolph Street base and of the inscription which appears on a plaque installed on the current base in 1966. IAS files contain a photocopy of a photograph from the Chicago Historical Society of the sculpture in 1889. The Chicago Park District files contain extensive clippings on this sculpture.
    References: 
    Index of American Sculpture, University of Delaware, 1985
    Bach, Ira J., and Mary Lackritz Gray, "A Guide to Chicago's Public Sculpture," Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983, pg. 230-232.
    Riedy, James L., "Chicago Sculpture," Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1981, pg. 182-184.
    Save Outdoor Sculpture, Illinois, Chicago survey, 1992.
    Berchem-Nigg, Kenneth, 2006.
    Illustration: 
    Image on file.
    Bach, Ira J., and Mary Lackritz Gray, "A Guide to Chicago's Public Sculpture," Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983, pg. 231.
    Note: 
    The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
    Repository: 
    Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
    Control Number: 
    IAS 75004301
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