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Booking photo
Joe Hill's arrest record.
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Joseph Hillstrom
Joseph Hillstrom, known to most by his Industrial Workers of the World pen name, Joe Hill, was arrested and convicted of the murder of John G. Morrison.
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Prison record
Joe Hill's prison records, identifying him as Joseph Hillstrom, from the time of his incarceration up to his execution on Nov. 19, 1915.
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Execution description
This handwritten description of Joe Hill's execution is part of his prison record at the Utah State Prison.
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Another booking photo
This is one of Joe Hill's booking photos, dating from when he was moved from the Salt Lake County jail to the state prison after his conviction in the death of John G. Morrison.
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Arrest record
This is Joe Hill's arrest record, created after he was picked up by the Salt Lake City police department in the Jan. 10, 1914, murders of grocer John G. Morrison and his son Arling.
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Arrest record
This is Joseph Hillstrom's entry in the Salt Lake City police department's arrest records.
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Utah State Prison
The Utah State Prison in the early 1900s.
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Otto Appelquist
Otto Appelquist, a friend of Joe Hill, is seen with a group of ironworkers during construction of the Eccles Building in Ogden, Utah.
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The Park City Miners Hospital
The Park City Miners Hospital where Joe Hill spent two weeks at the in 1913 after falling ill at the Silver King Mine.
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Joe Hill Mural
This mural depicting the execution of Joe Hill.
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Joe Hill House
Ammon Hennacy on the front porch of the Joe Hill Hospitality House, a homeless shelter he ran in Salt Lake City.
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Murray house
The home of the Eselius brothers in Murray, Utah, where Joe Hill was arrested on Jan. 14, 1914.
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Murray house
The home of the Eselius brothers in Murray, Utah, where Joe Hill was arrested on Jan. 14, 1914.
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Murray house
The home of the Eselius brothers in Murray, Utah, where Joe Hill was arrested on Jan. 14, 1914.
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Silver King Mine
This series of photos shows a panoramic view of the Silver King Mine in Park City circa 1902. The mine was owned by Utah Sen. Thomas Kearns. Joe Hill worked here briefly towards the end of 1913.
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Silver King Mine
This photo shows a view of the Silver King Mine in Park City circa 1912.
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Chicago funeral
This photo shows a view of the Silver King Mine in Park City circa 1912.
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Chicago funeral
The scene of Joe Hill's funeral in Chicago on Nov. 25, 1915.
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Fundraising
Duncan Phillips, center, performs with Morgan Snow and Kate MacLeod at Ken Sanders Rare Books in Salt Lake City on May 23, 2015.
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Young Joe Hill
This portrait shows Joel Hägglund, later known as Joe Hill, circa 1898.
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Family portrait
The family of Joe Hill, born Joel Hägglund, circa 1890.
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School days
This picture shows Joe Hill, born Joel Hägglund, during his school days in the 1880s in Gävle, Sweden. Hägglund is sitting on the ground in the lower left.
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Hometown
This is the city square of Gävle, Sweden, in about 1890.
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Gävle's harbor
This is a view of Gävle's harbor in about 1900. Joe Hill, born Joel Hägglund, worked with at the harbor with his older brother, Paul.
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Gävle
This is the street Joel Hägglund grew up on in Gävle, Sweden.
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Gävle
This is a painting of Gävle, Sweden, from the time when Joel Hägglund lived here prior to his emigration to the United States.
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Joe Hill paintings
This painting, which now hangs in the home of Gary Bowen in Salt Lake City, has been owned by his family since the 1920s.
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Joe Hill paintings
This is the "Joe US" signature on a painting that hangs in the home of Gary Bowen in Salt Lake City.
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Joe Hill paintings
This painting by Joe Hill shows the waterfall at the Tolvfors ironworks, just outside Hill's hometown of Gävle, Sweden.
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Funeral program
This is the program from Joe Hill's funeral in Chicago on Nov. 25, 1915.
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Funeral program
This is the program from Joe Hill's funeral in Chicago on Nov. 25, 1915.
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Funeral program
This is the program from Joe Hill's funeral in Chicago on Nov. 25, 1915.
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Joe HIll's last will
This poem was written by Joe Hill on Nov. 18, 1915, on the eve of his execution in Salt Lake City.
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Telegram
In this telegram to Elizabeth Gurley Flynn on the eve of Joe Hill's execution, Hill writes, "I have lived like a rebel and I shall die like a rebel."
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Joe Hill's ashes
This postcard shows a group of people at the Work People's College in Duluth, Minnesota singing as they prepare to spread the ashes of Joe Hill at the entrance to the school in February 1917.
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Hilda Erickson
Joe Hill claimed he had been shot by a friend as they fought over a woman. He refused to identify the woman or the friend. Some speculate that Hilda Erickson was the woman Joe Hill refused to name.
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Maria Johanson
According to an article by Swedish researcher Anders Wesslén, Maria Johanson may be the woman Joe Hill was shot over on Jan. 14, 1914.
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Maria Johanson
According to an article by Swedish researcher Anders Wesslén, Maria Johanson may be the woman Joe Hill was shot over on Jan. 14, 1914.
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Book review
According to an article by Swedish researcher Anders Wesslén, Maria Johanson may be the woman Joe Hill was shot over on Jan. 14, 1914.
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Joseph Hillstrom's booking photo
This is Joe Hill's arrest record, created after he was picked up by the Salt Lake City police department in the Jan. 10, 1914, murders of grocer John G. Morrison and his son Arling
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Joseph Hillstrom
Joseph Hillstrom, known to most by his Industrial Workers of the World pen name, Joe Hill, was arrested and convicted of the murder of John G. Morrison. Prosecutors contended Hill and an accomplice, believed to be Otto Appelquist, entered the Morrisons' grocery store in downtown Salt Lake City on Jan. 10, 1914, near closing time. The elder Morrison was shot in the back. His teenage son Arling, the state argued, shot Hill. Arling was shot three times by the accomplice and died instantly. John Morrison died at a nearby hospital. Hill was convicted and eventually executed. Appelquist was never found.
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Prison record
Joe Hill's prison records, identifying him as Joseph Hillstrom, from the time of his incarceration up to his execution on Nov. 19, 1915.
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Execution description
This handwritten description of Joe Hill's execution is part of his prison record at the Utah State Prison. (The first names of John and Arling Morrison are incorrect.) It says: Executed Nov 19th 1915 at 7:22 am - Shot for the murder of Jack [sic] Morrison store keeper murder in connection with hold up. Orlin [sic] Morrison was killed by gun shot
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Another booking photo
This is one of Joe Hill's booking photos, dating from when he was moved from the Salt Lake County jail to the state prison after his conviction in the death of John G. Morrison. Morrison and his son Arling were fatally shot in January 1914.
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Arrest record
This is Joe Hill's arrest record, created after he was picked up by the Salt Lake City police department in the Jan. 10, 1914, murders of grocer John G. Morrison and his son Arling.
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Arrest record
This is Joseph Hillstrom's entry in the Salt Lake City police department's arrest records. The photos are the first known photos of Hillstrom, who used the name Joe Hill, as an adult.
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Utah State Prison in 1915
The Utah State Prison, seen here in the early 1900s, was located at what is now Sugar House Park.
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Otto Appelquist
Otto Appelquist, a friend of Joe Hill, is seen with a group of ironworkers during construction of the Eccles Building in Ogden, Utah. The photo would have been taken sometime in late 1913.
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The Park City Miners Hospital
The Park City Miners Hospital was built in 1904 and was run by the Western Federation of Miners, a powerful union that counted William "Big Bill" Haywood, a co-founder of the Industrial Workers of the World, among its members. Joe Hill spent two weeks at the hospital in 1913 after falling ill at the Silver King Mine. The mine was owned by Thomas Kearns, who also owned The Salt Lake Tribune and had represented Utah as a U.S. senator from 1901 to 1905.
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Joe Hill Mural
This mural depicting the execution of Joe Hill was on one of the walls inside the Joe Hill Hospitality House, a homeless shelter in Salt Lake City run by a social activist named Ammon Hennacy in the 1960s and '70s.
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Joe Hill House
Ammon Hennacy on the front porch of the Joe Hill Hospitality House, a homeless shelter he ran in Salt Lake City during the 1960s and '70s.
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Murray House
The home of the Eselius brothers in Murray, Utah, where Joe Hill was arrested on Jan. 14, 1914, for the murders of John G. and Arling Morrison.
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Murray House
The home of the Eselius brothers in Murray, Utah, where Joe Hill was arrested on Jan. 14, 1914, for the murders of John G. and Arling Morrison.
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Murray House
The home of the Eselius brothers in Murray, Utah, where Joe Hill was arrested on Jan. 14, 1914, for the murders of John G. and Arling Morrison.
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Silver King Mine
This series of photos shows a panoramic view of the Silver King Mine in Park City circa 1902. The mine was owned by Utah Sen. Thomas Kearns. Joe Hill worked here briefly towards the end of 1913.
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Silver King Mine
This photo shows a view of the Silver King Mine in Park City circa 1912. The mine was owned by Utah Sen. Thomas Kearns. Joe Hill worked here briefly towards the end of 1913.
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Chicago funeral
A group of men at Joe Hill's funeral in Chicago on Nov. 25, 1915.
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Chicago funeral
The scene of Joe Hill's funeral in Chicago on Nov. 25, 1915.
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Fundraising
Duncan Phillips, center, performs with Morgan Snow and Kate MacLeod at Ken Sanders Rare Books in Salt Lake City on May 23, 2015. The event raised funds for a Joe Hill memorial concert planned for September in Sugar House Park.
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Young Joe Hill
This portrait shows Joel Hägglund circa 1898. The photo was created just before he contracted skin tuberculosis.
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Family portrait
This portrait shows the family of Joe Hill, born Joel Hägglund, circa 1890. His mother, Catharina Hägglund, is surrounded by her children. Joel is standing on the left. To Joel's right are his brothers Ruben, Efraim and Paul. His sister Ester sits in their mother's lap while Judit is seated next to Catarina.
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School days
This picture shows Joe Hill, born Joel Hägglund, during his school days in the 1880s in Gävle, Sweden. Hägglund is sitting on the ground in the lower left.
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Hometown
This is the city square of Gävle, Sweden, in about 1890. Joel Hägglund grew up in Gävle.
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Gävle's harbor
This is a view of Gävle's harbor in about 1900. Joe Hill, born Joel Hägglund, worked with at the harbor with his older brother, Paul.
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Gävle
This is the street Joel Hägglund grew up on in Gävle, Sweden.
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Gävle
This is a painting of Gävle, Sweden, from the time when Joel Hägglund lived here prior to his emigration to the United States. The white building in the center of the painting was a bath house where Hägglund worked as a young man.
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Joe Hill paintings
This painting, which now hangs in the home of Gary Bowen in Salt Lake City, has been owned by his family since the 1920s. It originally hung in a bar on Salt Lake City's 200 South near what is now Gallivan Plaza, and Bowen believes it may have been painted by labor icon Joe Hill while he was in the area in 1913. The painting is signed "Joe US." In an Aug. 15, 1915, letter to the editor of the Salt Lake Telegram, Hill said, "my spare time I spend by painting pictures, writing songs and composing music."
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Joe Hill paintings
This is the "Joe US" signature on a painting that hangs in the home of Gary Bowen in Salt Lake City. It has been in his family since the 1920s, and he believes it may have been painted by labor icon Joe Hill while he was in the Salt Lake Valley in 1913. The painting originally hung in a bar on 200 South near what is now Gallivan Plaza in Salt Lake City. In an Aug. 15, 1915, letter to the editor of the Salt Lake Telegram, Hill wrote, "my spare time I spend by painting pictures, writing songs and composing music."
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Joe Hill paintings
This painting by Joe Hill shows the waterfall at the Tolvfors ironworks, just outside Hill's hometown of Gävle, Sweden. Painted sometime before 1902, the painting hangs in the Joe Hill Museum in Gävle.
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Funeral program
This is the program from Joe Hill's funeral in Chicago on Nov. 25, 1915.
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Funeral program
This is the program from Joe Hill's funeral in Chicago on Nov. 25, 1915. Attorney Orrin N. Hilton, who handled Hill's appeal, was later disbarred in Utah for comments he made during his speech at the funeral.
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Funeral program
This poem was printed on the back of the program for Joe Hill's funeral in Chicago on Nov. 25, 1915.
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Joe HIll's last will
This poem was written by Joe Hill on Nov. 18, 1915, on the eve of his execution in Salt Lake City.
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Joe HIll's last will
In this telegram to Elizabeth Gurley Flynn on the eve of Joe Hill's execution, Hill writes, "I have lived like a rebel and I shall die like a rebel." Gurley-Flynn was the inspiration for Hill's song, "Rebel Girl."
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Joe Hill's ashes
This postcard shows a group of people at the Work People's College in Duluth, Minnesota singing as they prepare to spread the ashes of Joe Hill at the entrance to the school in February 1917. After Hill was executed in Salt Lake City on Nov. 19, 1915, his body was shipped to Chicago where he was cremated. The IWW then distributed a small portion of his ashes to union halls and other labor groups all over the world and his ashes were spread in ceremonies at the various locations.
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Hilda Erickson
Joe Hill claimed he had been shot by a friend as they fought over a woman. He refused to identify the woman or the friend. Some speculate that Hilda Erickson was the woman Joe Hill refused to name.
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Maria Johanson
According to an article by Swedish researcher Anders Wesslén, Maria Johanson may be the woman Joe Hill was shot over on Jan. 14, 1914.
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Maria Johanson
According to an article by Swedish researcher Anders Wesslén, Maria Johanson may be the woman Joe Hill was shot over on Jan. 14, 1914.
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Book review
This review of Wallace Stegner's "The Preacher And The Slave" that was published in The Deseret News in 1950 was found in Aubrey Haan's research for his own book, "Pie In The Sky." Stegner and Haan both chose to name their books after the same Joe Hill song. Both books were fictional accounts of Hill's life, with Hill cast as a villain in Stegner's book, and a hero in Haan's book. Haan's book was never published and The Deseret News called Stegner's book a "severe disappointment" because of how little his book represented the historical realities of the case.
