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Young boy stands in front of groups of workers who helped with the Mother Jones Memorial.

1. Group of Willing Workers, Miners Cemetery, Mt. Olive, Ill.

IDNO:: 004818
Title:: Group of Willing Workers, Miners Cemetery, Mt. Olive, Ill.
Date:: 1936/07/24
Description:: Young boy stands in front of groups of workers who helped with the Mother Jones Memorial.

Volunteer workers at the Miners Cemetery, Mt. Olive, Ill.

2. Removing Forms from Driveway Curbing at Miner's Cemetery in Mt. Olive, Ill.

IDNO:: 004800
Title:: Removing Forms from Driveway Curbing at Miner's Cemetery in Mt. Olive, Ill.
Date:: 1936/07/24
Description:: Volunteer workers at the Miners Cemetery, Mt. Olive, Ill.

3. Carrying Mother Jones' Vault to New Grave, Miner's Cemetery, Mt. Olive, Ill.

IDNO:: 004832
Title:: Carrying Mother Jones' Vault to New Grave, Miner's Cemetery, Mt. Olive, Ill.
Date:: 1936/07/24

Workers load dirt into wheelbarrows for the Mother Jones Memorial at the Miner's Cemtery, Mt. Olive, Ill.

4. Hauling Dirt to Site of New Memorial, Miner's Cemetary, Mt. Olive, Ill.

IDNO:: 004824
Title:: Hauling Dirt to Site of New Memorial, Miner's Cemetary, Mt. Olive, Ill.
Date:: 1936/07/24
Description:: Workers load dirt into wheelbarrows for the Mother Jones Memorial at the Miner's Cemtery, Mt. Olive, Ill.

Groups of volunteer workers pause for the camera at the Miner's Cemetery, Mt. Olive, Ill.

5. Willing Workers, Members L.U. No. 35, P. M. A. of Mt. Olive at the Miner's Cemetery, Mt. Olive, Ill.

IDNO:: 004821
Title:: Willing Workers, Members L.U. No. 35, P. M. A. of Mt. Olive at the Miner's Cemetery, Mt. Olive, Ill.
Date:: 1936/07/24
Description:: Groups of volunteer workers pause for the camera at the Miner's Cemetery, Mt. Olive, Ill.

'The day is finished and refreshments are enjoyed by all. Best Union men that ever lived of No. 35, PMA, who gave their time and labor to build a memorial to clean unionship.'

6. Members of Progressive Miners of America No. 35

IDNO:: 004775
Title:: Members of Progressive Miners of America No. 35
Date:: 1936/07/24
Description:: 'The day is finished and refreshments are enjoyed by all. Best Union men that ever lived of No. 35, PMA, who gave their time and labor to build a memorial to clean unionship.'

Young boy stands in front of groups of workers who helped with the Mother Jones Memorial.

7. Group of Willing Workers, Miners Cemetery, Mt. Olive, Ill.

IDNO:: 004819
Title:: Group of Willing Workers, Miners Cemetery, Mt. Olive, Ill.
Date:: 1936/07/24
Description:: Young boy stands in front of groups of workers who helped with the Mother Jones Memorial.

Volunteer workers gathered around a barrel at the Miners Cemetery, Mt. Olive, Ill.

8. Progressive Mine Workers of America L.U. No. 35 Group

IDNO:: 004796
Title:: Progressive Mine Workers of America L.U. No. 35 Group
Date:: 1936/07/24
Description:: Volunteer workers gathered around a barrel at the Miners Cemetery, Mt. Olive, Ill.

Volunteers head back to work at the Miners Cemetery, Mt. Olive, Ill.

9. Volunteer Workers at Miner's Cemetery, Mt. Olive, Ill.

IDNO:: 004793
Title:: Volunteer Workers at Miner's Cemetery, Mt. Olive, Ill.
Date:: 1936/07/24
Description:: Volunteers head back to work at the Miners Cemetery, Mt. Olive, Ill.

Men stand around the opening while men with shovels excavate the grave of Mother Jones.

10. Opening of Mother Jones' Grave, Miner's Cemetery, Mt. Olive, Ill.

IDNO:: 004828
Title:: Opening of Mother Jones' Grave, Miner's Cemetery, Mt. Olive, Ill.
Date:: 1936/07/24
Description:: Men stand around the opening while men with shovels excavate the grave of Mother Jones.

Volunteers head back to work at the Miners Cemetery, Mt. Olive, Ill.

11. Volunteer Workers at Miner's Cemetery, Mt. Olive, Ill.

IDNO:: 004794
Title:: Volunteer Workers at Miner's Cemetery, Mt. Olive, Ill.
Date:: 1936/07/24
Description:: Volunteers head back to work at the Miners Cemetery, Mt. Olive, Ill.

Group portrait of volunteer workers at Mother Jones Memorial, Miner's Cemetery, Mt. Olive, Illinois.

12. Volunteers at the Reburial of Mother Jones at the Miner's Cemetery, Mt. Olive, Ill.

IDNO:: 004817
Title:: Volunteers at the Reburial of Mother Jones at the Miner's Cemetery, Mt. Olive, Ill.
Date:: 1936/07/24
Description:: Group portrait of volunteer workers at Mother Jones Memorial, Miner's Cemetery, Mt. Olive, Illinois.