Another All-Photo Edition

It’s been a busy few weeks. I’m in the midst of sprint to revise and vastly expand my book proposal, with an eye toward getting a contract this summer. The good news is that since I last wrote, I managed to get an agent. The bad news is that I haven’t been able to put much time into Debs Dispatch writing. So here again, if you’ll excuse me, is another all-photo edition. All images, save for the last one, come courtesy of the Indiana State University Library. Hope you enjoy!

Eugene Debs (right) and his brother, Theodore, in Chicago’s Lincoln Park. (Date unknown, possibly 1908)

Eugene Debs (right, back) greets a crowd at the Terre Haute train station upon his release from jail in December 1921. Theodore is on the left, with his head slightly raised.

A 1908 postcard from Eugene to his brother from Harper’s Ferry: “Here's where the shot was fired Oct. 16 1859 that sounded the knell for Chattel Slavery.”

A black-and-white postcard featuring Debs.

Debs poses while being sculpted by Moses Dykaar. (Date unknown)

Eugene (center) with family (Theodore is on the far right) and friends in 1922. The photo was taken at Lindlahr Sanitarium, a natural health facility outside of Chicago where Debs often went to recuperate. He would spend his last days there in 1926.

A wonderful photo of an ebullient Eugene. I came across this in a just-published biography of “Red Tom” Hickey, a prominent Texas Socialist.