Big Annie

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width=210 BGCOLOR="#99CC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="03f8dfc3.jpg"> <div> <B>Here are three photos of perhaps the most famous person of the strike, Anna Clemenc.</B></div> <div> <B>The first has appeared in many publications for years, but the second photo is the only other image of Anna that I have seen.</B></div> <div> <B>(I have enlarged a portion to enable a close-up).</B></div> <div> <B>Big Annie became famous on September 13, 1913 during a demonstration of strikers and troops.  She defied the orders of the militia, and at one point dared them to kill her!</B></div> <div> <B>See Thurner, pp 92-95</B></div> </td> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=82 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0408dfe1esnpes.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#336666" FACE="Arial" ><B>Copper Country Reflections</B></FONT><B>     </B><B>|</B><B>     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Copper Country Reflections"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id239.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Mohawk parade"><U><B><IMG SRC="0420e0e0.gif" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="previous" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><A HREF="id329.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Quincy Hill"><U><B><IMG SRC="0410e0e0.gif" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="next" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>       </B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="14" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="14"><B>   </B><A HREF="id225.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Western Federation of Miners"><U><B><IMG SRC="0440e0e0.gif" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="up" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> <B>Click arrows to go through series.  Use the UP arrow to go back to WFM main page.</B></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=398 colspan=2 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0408dfc3.jpg"> <div> Big Annie</div> <div> <IMG SRC="5b906a70.jpg" border=0 width="262" height="423" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">                <IMG SRC="5e0d1a80.jpg" border=0 width="209" height="424" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="5de1a360.jpg" border=0 width="538" height="310" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="b7975960.jpg" border=0 width="629" height="406" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="71795170.jpg" border=0 width="405" height="535" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Marker located at the Italian Hall Memorial in Calumet</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>