An All-Photo Edition

I’m waylaid this week with various book stuff, so I decided to put together an all-photo edition of Debs Dispatch. Enjoy!

Debs as a teenager, circa 1870. (Photo credit: Indiana State University Library)

Debs standing in front of the “Red Special” train with the “Red Special” band during the Socialist Party’s 1908 presidential campaign. Debs is right below the “R” in “PRESIDENTIAL.” (Indiana State University Library)

George Washington Woodbey, a minister and prominent member of the Debs-era Socialist Party. “Like many of the early socialist race radicals,” Paul Heideman writes, “Woodbey saw the struggle for socialism as an extension of the struggle against slavery... [H]e joined the small group of party members — including Eugene Debs — who refused to overlook the racism in the labor movement.”

A 1909 advertisement in The Progressive Woman.

“To Jean Hall — with the love and all good wishes of her friend — Eugene V. Debs March 17th 1925.” (Indiana State University Library)

Debs speaking to an identified person on his front steps on September 30, 1925. His wife, Kate, is seated to his right.

The audience at Debs’s funeral, held at his home, on October 22, 1926. (Indiana State University Library)

Housekeeping

• If you missed my last post, “The Brother Behind Eugene Debs,” you can read it here.

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