https://www.motherjonesmuseummtolive.org/new-events daily 0.75 2025-12-07 https://www.motherjonesmuseummtolive.org/new-events/mother-jones-may-event monthly 0.5 2025-02-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1738809178309-VPMLR241XNMNABUSYVFP/unsplash-image-qxvin2jFhKk.jpg Mother Jones International Day - Mother Jones May Event - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.motherjonesmuseummtolive.org/new-events/mother-jones-birthday-party-1 monthly 0.5 2025-12-07 https://www.motherjonesmuseummtolive.org/contact daily 0.75 2026-02-15 https://www.motherjonesmuseummtolive.org/union-miners-cemetery daily 0.75 2021-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1595371171806-TA7HYUQZNXQZHCLNUCTP/cemetery+entrance.jpg Union Miners Cemetery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1595371171806-TA7HYUQZNXQZHCLNUCTP/cemetery+entrance.jpg Union Miners Cemetery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1597464431976-4TH06LEAG1T12SCBALPI/motherjones13+at+the+unveiling+of+the+MJ+monument.jpg Union Miners Cemetery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1597464462509-QVO9K9YZC5WNAUPXNMJK/motherjones2+monument+dedication.jpg Union Miners Cemetery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1597464503391-W3RMSHDHLIT2QLTVJ92F/motherjones14+parade+with+womens+auxiliary.jpg Union Miners Cemetery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1597464538712-5LPX06MVIF5RIFY3PDD5/motherjones21+crowd.jpg Union Miners Cemetery https://www.motherjonesmuseummtolive.org/battle-of-virden daily 0.75 2024-09-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1597037066246-MV4R80C6QOIVJ2UPJ0W0/virden+site+day+before+cropped.jpg Battle of Virden Miners gathered on the train tracks in Virden, Illinois, the day before the Battle of Virden. October 11, 1898. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1597037292712-B1EWBDOC3QRR7Z34JPG7/relief%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bbattle%2Bof%2Bvirden.jpg Battle of Virden Photo of a large bronze mural on the northeast side of the Virden, Illinois Town Square, created by sculptor David Seagraves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1597037066246-MV4R80C6QOIVJ2UPJ0W0/virden+site+day+before+cropped.jpg Battle of Virden Miners gathered on the train tracks in Virden, Illinois, the day before the Battle of Virden. October 11, 1898. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1597037292712-B1EWBDOC3QRR7Z34JPG7/relief%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bbattle%2Bof%2Bvirden.jpg Battle of Virden Photo of a large bronze mural on the northeast side of the Virden, Illinois Town Square, created by sculptor David Seagraves. https://www.motherjonesmuseummtolive.org/why-is-mother-jones-buried-in-mt-olive daily 0.75 2025-08-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1597071071830-TE65O4EFWQER751X6L25/MJ%25252Bat%25252Bthe%25252Bmuseum%25252Brev.jpg Why is Mother Jones buried in Mount Olive, Illinois? A life-size image of Mother Jones in our Mount Olive Museum, from a photograph of her attending the 1915 hearings of the federal Commission on Industrial Relations at the New York City Hall, New York City. Originally published by Bain News Service. https://www.loc.gov/item/201469820 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1597160341644-65Y1PJ0E6A7IX3401EEH/MJ%2Bletter%2Bto%2BMt%2BOlive%2Bminers.jpg Why is Mother Jones buried in Mount Olive, Illinois? Letter from Mother Jones to the miners of Mt. Olive, from the Mt. Olive Public Library collection. Click image to enlarge it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1597814338149-ZHRA8XRFKQA0CJKBM4I6/Photo%2Bof%2Bcrowd%2Bat%2BAscension%2BChurch%2Bin%2BMt.%2BOlive.jpg Why is Mother Jones buried in Mount Olive, Illinois? - Overflow Crowd at the Church of the Ascension in Mt. Olive Overflow crowd at the Church of the Ascension, Mt. Olive for Mother Jones’ funeral in 1930. Photo from newspaper in the Mt. Olive Library collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1597071071830-TE65O4EFWQER751X6L25/MJ%25252Bat%25252Bthe%25252Bmuseum%25252Brev.jpg Why is Mother Jones buried in Mount Olive, Illinois? A life-size image of Mother Jones in our Mount Olive Museum, from a photograph of her attending the 1915 hearings of the federal Commission on Industrial Relations at the New York City Hall, New York City. Originally published by Bain News Service. https://www.loc.gov/item/201469820 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1597160341644-65Y1PJ0E6A7IX3401EEH/MJ%2Bletter%2Bto%2BMt%2BOlive%2Bminers.jpg Why is Mother Jones buried in Mount Olive, Illinois? Letter from Mother Jones to the miners of Mt. Olive, from the Mt. Olive Public Library collection. Click image to enlarge it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1597814338149-ZHRA8XRFKQA0CJKBM4I6/Photo%2Bof%2Bcrowd%2Bat%2BAscension%2BChurch%2Bin%2BMt.%2BOlive.jpg Why is Mother Jones buried in Mount Olive, Illinois? - Overflow Crowd at the Church of the Ascension in Mt. Olive Overflow crowd at the Church of the Ascension, Mt. Olive for Mother Jones’ funeral in 1930. Photo from newspaper in the Mt. Olive Library collection. https://www.motherjonesmuseummtolive.org/friends-in-solidarity daily 0.75 2025-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1579812057826-K21OLGFHRWC6YLARNHJ8/Mother-Jones-With-Miners-Child-1024x512.jpg important Links: Friends in Solidarity In her 1925 autobiography, Mother Jones wrote about the UMWA strike in Ludlow, Colorado, over the harsh winter of 1914. This photo shows her with a family in one of the tents that the striking miners and their families lived in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1579812057826-K21OLGFHRWC6YLARNHJ8/Mother-Jones-With-Miners-Child-1024x512.jpg important Links: Friends in Solidarity In her 1925 autobiography, Mother Jones wrote about the UMWA strike in Ludlow, Colorado, over the harsh winter of 1914. This photo shows her with a family in one of the tents that the striking miners and their families lived in. https://www.motherjonesmuseummtolive.org/give-to-the-museum daily 0.75 2025-02-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1595803617666-DN7A0YYW0EAI5UPDXF4D/MJ+in+crowd.jpg Donate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1595803617666-DN7A0YYW0EAI5UPDXF4D/MJ+in+crowd.jpg Donate https://www.motherjonesmuseummtolive.org/homepage daily 1.0 2025-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1597640457466-4UWW34VFP25MSAFD8F1O/banner+arker.png Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1597181151014-WC9ULZK9PV9LMQBHHL6K/MJ%252Bpossible%252Bfuneral%252Bcard.jpg Home - who was mother jones? Why did she like to visit Mt. Olive? Why is she buried in Mt. 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Olive? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1597466626720-LWV2L6QKKGMB0T8D3J8M/motherjones9+crowd+of+miners.jpg Home - the miners’ story What is the legacy of coal mining in southern Illinois? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1597070706809-VJK4TH7PXVTXRBYZVI43/MJ%2Bat%2Bthe%2Bmuseum%2Brev.jpg Home - the museum Who are the Friends of the Mother Jones Museum in Mt. Olive? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1615224936270-GCPZT5HMWSF50E001X8J/Image_of_Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fire_on_March_25_-_1911.jpg Home Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire New York City March 25, 1911 https://www.motherjonesmuseummtolive.org/coal-mining-labor-in-southern-illinois daily 0.75 2020-10-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1601926627567-C2PGWZ0R3J4J9ETHI6WQ/retired%2Bminers%2BOctober%2B2020.jpg Coal Mining and Labor in South Central Illinois - Retired Members of UMWA Local 1613 At the Union Miners Cemetery October 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1597071810840-55RO7NTB3PMRILRNVKN7/boy%2Bminers-jpeg.jpg Coal Mining and Labor in South Central Illinois Rudolf “Rudy” Goldacker, Ralph Govan, and Arthur Luebshueur, boy miners in a photo taken c. 1905. A gift to the Mother Jones Museum in Mt. Olive from Bill Hinz in 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1595370471604-HQDWY1CDUZOQX1AZKXZ2/coal+sign+cropped.jpg Coal Mining and Labor in South Central Illinois This 1939 sign was at a store selling Mt. Olive coal in Madison, Illinois. Currently displayed in the Mother Jones Museum in Mt. Olive, donated to the Museum by Elmer Milcic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1597072737421-G48AGXMJPXPDJN2K56R9/Mt%2BOlive%2Bminers%2Bcoming%2Bup%2Bfrom%2Bthe%2Bmine.jpg Coal Mining and Labor in South Central Illinois Mt. Olive miners coming up from work in the mine. Photo in the Mt. Olive Library collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1598075757771-6XAVOWO8Y0M0Z3GLJRT1/charles%2Band%2Bbess%2Bfranz.jpg Coal Mining and Labor in South Central Illinois - Charles and Bess Franz, with Bess in the Progressive Miners Women’s Auxiliary uniform Photo in the Mt. Olive Library Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1597162791932-L3G35QFQAYY1YO250JDN/miner+riding+on+the+tram+in+Mt+Olive+mine.jpg Coal Mining and Labor in South Central Illinois A miner riding a coal tram in a Mt. Olive mine. Photo from the Mt. Olive Library collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1597635716202-7Y63NR1MN2WR9GJTMIEQ/coal+mines+in+mt+olive+quadrangle.jpg Coal Mining and Labor in South Central Illinois A map showing the extensive coal mines beneath Mt. Olive and vicinity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1601926627567-C2PGWZ0R3J4J9ETHI6WQ/retired%2Bminers%2BOctober%2B2020.jpg Coal Mining and Labor in South Central Illinois - Retired Members of UMWA Local 1613 At the Union Miners Cemetery October 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1597071810840-55RO7NTB3PMRILRNVKN7/boy%2Bminers-jpeg.jpg Coal Mining and Labor in South Central Illinois Rudolf “Rudy” Goldacker, Ralph Govan, and Arthur Luebshueur, boy miners in a photo taken c. 1905. A gift to the Mother Jones Museum in Mt. Olive from Bill Hinz in 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1595370471604-HQDWY1CDUZOQX1AZKXZ2/coal+sign+cropped.jpg Coal Mining and Labor in South Central Illinois This 1939 sign was at a store selling Mt. Olive coal in Madison, Illinois. Currently displayed in the Mother Jones Museum in Mt. Olive, donated to the Museum by Elmer Milcic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1597072737421-G48AGXMJPXPDJN2K56R9/Mt%2BOlive%2Bminers%2Bcoming%2Bup%2Bfrom%2Bthe%2Bmine.jpg Coal Mining and Labor in South Central Illinois Mt. Olive miners coming up from work in the mine. Photo in the Mt. Olive Library collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1598075757771-6XAVOWO8Y0M0Z3GLJRT1/charles%2Band%2Bbess%2Bfranz.jpg Coal Mining and Labor in South Central Illinois - Charles and Bess Franz, with Bess in the Progressive Miners Women’s Auxiliary uniform Photo in the Mt. Olive Library Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1597162791932-L3G35QFQAYY1YO250JDN/miner+riding+on+the+tram+in+Mt+Olive+mine.jpg Coal Mining and Labor in South Central Illinois A miner riding a coal tram in a Mt. Olive mine. Photo from the Mt. Olive Library collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1597635716202-7Y63NR1MN2WR9GJTMIEQ/coal+mines+in+mt+olive+quadrangle.jpg Coal Mining and Labor in South Central Illinois A map showing the extensive coal mines beneath Mt. Olive and vicinity. https://www.motherjonesmuseummtolive.org/friends-of-mother-jones-museum daily 0.75 2021-01-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1595818701749-IVF5K07A2LM8A5H21H31/museum+shot+from+fb.png Friends of the Mother Jones Museum in Mt. Olive https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1597465983585-EM5ITB2184QPVIHMU5BC/womens%2Bauxiliary%2BMayday%2Bmarch%2B%2B2019.jpg Friends of the Mother Jones Museum in Mt. Olive 2019 Mayday Re-enactment of a march by the Women’s Auxiliary of the Progressive Miners of America. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1597705602402-8KEJQ9UXUX39Y8AZMOCE/MJ%2Bhead.jpg Friends of the Mother Jones Museum in Mt. Olive https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1595818701749-IVF5K07A2LM8A5H21H31/museum+shot+from+fb.png Friends of the Mother Jones Museum in Mt. Olive https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1597465983585-EM5ITB2184QPVIHMU5BC/womens%2Bauxiliary%2BMayday%2Bmarch%2B%2B2019.jpg Friends of the Mother Jones Museum in Mt. Olive 2019 Mayday Re-enactment of a march by the Women’s Auxiliary of the Progressive Miners of America. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1597705602402-8KEJQ9UXUX39Y8AZMOCE/MJ%2Bhead.jpg Friends of the Mother Jones Museum in Mt. Olive https://www.motherjonesmuseummtolive.org/general-bradley daily 0.75 2021-01-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1597465053043-HF4XRB4Z291KK67P73O2/2016+Jim+Alderson+as+General+B.jpg General Bradley - Alexander “General” Bradley Portrayed by Jim Alderson, Mayday, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1597465270709-U4UPQ0OA0JR2GPXSXR2K/gen+bradley+tomb.jpg General Bradley The Tombstone of General Bradley. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1597465053043-HF4XRB4Z291KK67P73O2/2016+Jim+Alderson+as+General+B.jpg General Bradley - Alexander “General” Bradley Portrayed by Jim Alderson, Mayday, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1597465270709-U4UPQ0OA0JR2GPXSXR2K/gen+bradley+tomb.jpg General Bradley The Tombstone of General Bradley. https://www.motherjonesmuseummtolive.org/who-was-mother-jones daily 0.75 2021-01-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1597040502412-BBQLCP0SHPS1K9V2G37L/MJ+funeral+card.jpg Who was Mother Jones? Funeral Card from Mount Olive Burial, in the Mt. Olive Library collection. [Click to enlarge this image.] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1597040502412-BBQLCP0SHPS1K9V2G37L/MJ+funeral+card.jpg Who was Mother Jones? Funeral Card from Mount Olive Burial, in the Mt. Olive Library collection. [Click to enlarge this image.] https://www.motherjonesmuseummtolive.org/mother-jones-timeline daily 0.75 2020-07-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1595369824878-9HTGU47Z5TVFYZ9HDO9G/799px-Workers_Memorial_Day_poster.jpg A Mother Jones Timeline https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1595369824878-9HTGU47Z5TVFYZ9HDO9G/799px-Workers_Memorial_Day_poster.jpg A Mother Jones Timeline https://www.motherjonesmuseummtolive.org/triangle-shirtwaist-fire-victims daily 0.75 2021-03-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1615223831660-YD1R3C20UM1SQ9N3YNJZ/0001.jpg Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Victims https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1615223831660-YD1R3C20UM1SQ9N3YNJZ/0001.jpg Triangle Shirtwaist Fire Victims https://www.motherjonesmuseummtolive.org/poems-for-the-triangle-shirtwaist-victims daily 0.75 2021-03-08 https://www.motherjonesmuseummtolive.org/international-womens-day daily 0.75 2021-03-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1615221685661-P2K74BSVFDR7X85A0YIB/Dress+Factory+1926.jpg International Women's Day https://www.motherjonesmuseummtolive.org/international-womens daily 0.75 2021-03-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1615221685661-P2K74BSVFDR7X85A0YIB/Dress+Factory+1926.jpg International Women's Day Collinsville, IL Dress Factory 1926 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1615221685661-P2K74BSVFDR7X85A0YIB/Dress+Factory+1926.jpg International Women's Day Collinsville, IL Dress Factory 1926 https://www.motherjonesmuseummtolive.org/the-women-and-their-sewing-machines daily 0.75 2021-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1616881877957-EFJAX6X45P6H0ELA35KZ/seamstresses+on+a+picket+line.jfif The Women and Their Sewing Machines - sEAMSTRESSES IN nyc 1910 Library of Congress https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1616881877957-EFJAX6X45P6H0ELA35KZ/seamstresses+on+a+picket+line.jfif The Women and Their Sewing Machines - sEAMSTRESSES IN nyc 1910 Library of Congress https://www.motherjonesmuseummtolive.org/remembrance-of-parantzem-amiryan-haroian daily 0.75 2021-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1616880711883-00KR4N0ZHCU0WAVLURO7/img786.jpg Remembrance of Parantzem Amiryan Haroian - Parantzem Amiryan Haroian Circa 1916, aged 15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1616880548142-7VEO0R9WCEP014TQ2LR0/img794.jpg Remembrance of Parantzem Amiryan Haroian - Arsen Haroian Age 30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1616880711883-00KR4N0ZHCU0WAVLURO7/img786.jpg Remembrance of Parantzem Amiryan Haroian - Parantzem Amiryan Haroian Circa 1916, aged 15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1616880548142-7VEO0R9WCEP014TQ2LR0/img794.jpg Remembrance of Parantzem Amiryan Haroian - Arsen Haroian Age 30 https://www.motherjonesmuseummtolive.org/remembrance-of-afrodite-condellone daily 0.75 2021-03-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1616882685524-FVYOGE5347L57ULEZMGX/2.jpg Remembrance of Afrodite Condellone https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cc883f690f90405908867de/1616882685524-FVYOGE5347L57ULEZMGX/2.jpg Remembrance of Afrodite Condellone https://www.motherjonesmuseummtolive.org/giving-page-2-1 daily 0.75 2025-02-27 https://www.motherjonesmuseummtolive.org/giving-page-3 daily 0.75 2025-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/6601d933-4d8f-4bb6-87f4-2a7858f8e0b0/image-asset+%287%29.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/59db377f-34a5-470c-aef0-c45630106587/AroHa_02.jpg https://www.motherjonesmuseummtolive.org/general-1 daily 0.75 2025-04-13