Illustrations

1. Robert Prager

2. Lumaghi Coal Company Mine No. 2

3. Men at the main shaft of Consolidated Mine No. 17

4. George Creel

5. CPI poster targeting coal miners

6. CPI poster demonizing Kaiser Wilhelm II

7. Women of the Red Cross in Collinsville

8. Workers at the St. Louis Smelting and Refining Company

9. Aerial view of the St. Louis Smelting and Refining Company

10. Jenkin Jenkins

11. Government poster blaming German sympathizers for labor strife

12. Notice to watch for spies

13. CPI poster encouraging immigrants to buy war bonds

14. Cartoon run six days before the lynching

15. ABC Bar

16. Main Street near Center Street in Collinsville

17. Collinsville’s city hall and fire station

18. J. H. Siegel

19. Robert Prager’s final note to his parents

20. Robert Prager in bowler hat

21. Hanging tree atop Bluff Hill

22. Poster for the third Liberty Loan campaign

23. J. O. Monroe and son

24. Newspaper advertisement attacking slackers

25. Defendants as photographed at the courthouse

26. Defendants as pictured in the Post-Dispatch the following day

27. Joseph Streuber

28. C. W. Middlekauf

29. Louis Bernreuter

30. James Bandy, Harold Bandy, and Thomas Williamson

31. Nineteen Collinsville men who reported for the draft

32. Robert Prager’s headstone