| 2431 |
Lake View Cycling Club, 1890s, Photographer: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...View Cycling Club in front of its clubhouse at 401-403 Orchard Street (old numbering) in the 1890s....
Date Created: 1890s,
Date Depicted: 1890s
|
| 2432 |
Year Page: 1968, David Farber(
Year Page
) ...great majorityof Americans approved of the Chicago policemen’suse of force and Mayor Daley’s strong...
...With over three and a half million people, Chicago was the nation’s second-largest city, full of...
...antiwar organizations announced they would protest in Chicago during the August Democratic National...
|
| 2433 |
E. E. Swiney Advertisement, 1880, Creator: Lakeside Directory of Chicago(
Historical Source
) ...Creator: Lakeside Directory of Chicago...
Date Created: 1880,
Date Depicted: 1880
|
| 2434 |
Press Club's Anti-Red Mass Meeting, 1920, Creator: Press Club of Chicago(
Historical Source
) ...Creator: Press Club of Chicago...
Date Created: 1920,
Date Depicted: 1920
|
| 2435 |
Demolition of Dearborn Street Bridge, 1959, Photographer: Robert Mark(
Historical Source
) ...replace the half-century old rolling lift bridge at Dearborn Street with the proven reliability of a...
...In 1959, the City of Chicago had decided to...
Date Created: 1959,
Date Depicted: 1959
|
| 2436 |
Dearborn Street Bridge Construction Sign, 1960, Photographer: J. Sherwin Murphy(
Historical Source
) ...By April 1960, the old Dearborn Street Bridge had been demolished and new construction ready to...
...Another Bridge Improvement, Dearborn St. Bascule Bridge, City of Chicago, Richard J. Daley, Mayor."...
Date Created: 1960,
Date Depicted: 1960
|
| 2437 |
This Pamphlet Tells What You Ought to Know about Harvey, Creator: Harvey Land Assoc.(
Historical Source
) ...L. Moody, Harvey's investment group envisioned their town as both Christian and free of the evils of...
...with advertising like this booklet that highlighted the town of Harvey's distinctive goals....
Date Created: n.d.,
Date Depicted: n.d.
|
| 2438 |
The Human Fly, (
Historical Source
) ...the corner of State and Madison Streets in Chicago's Loop. Although spectators gather on the ground,...
...audience of this staged publicity act. Creator: WGN News Institution: Chicago Historical Society The...
...Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
|
| 2439 |
Opening of Robert Taylor Homes, 1962, (
Historical Source
) ...of the Robert Taylor Homes in 1962. Creator: WGN News Institution: Chicago Historical Society The...
...Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights...
|
| 2440 |
The Celebrity of Technology, (
Historical Source
) ...of Technology In 1893 Thomas Edison came to Chicago to demonstrate his peephole kinetoscope for...
...and advertisers continued to highlight Chicago's technical achievements, from the electrical lights...
...Quicktime The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2005 Chicago Historical Society. The Encyclopedia...
|
| 2441 |
Fort Dearborn Monument, c.1920s, Photographer: Chicago Daily News / Sculptor: Carl Rohl-Smith(
Historical Source
) ...Photographer: Chicago Daily News / Sculptor: Carl Rohl-Smith...
...and was later installed in the lobby of the Chicago Historical Society. In the 1970s American Indian...
...was removed by the Office of Public Art of the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, and placed in...
Date Created: 1912,
Date Depicted: 1912
|
| 2442 |
Artie, by George Ade, 1896 (Cover), Artist: John T. McCutcheon(
Historical Source
) ...Streets and of the Town."...
...a series of sketches first developed in Ade's feature column in the Chicago Record, "Stories of the...
Date Created: 1896,
Date Depicted: 1896
|
| 2443 |
Letter from Dixwell Lathrop to John Rockwell, 11 June 1835, Author: Dixwell Lathrop(
Historical Source
) ...He is unimpressed by the town, and the price of $155 per square foot for water lots strikes him as "...
...In Chicago, as in much of the Northwest Territory, the division of the land into lots for sale led...
...as an investment. In this letter to Rockwell, Lathrop discusses the auctions of lots in Chicago....
Date Created: 1835,
Date Depicted: 1835
|
| 2444 |
Year Page: 1795, Ann Durkin Keating and Helen Hornbeck Tanner(
Year Page
) ...an Indian Town “Although...
...every Indian town carried a tribal identity, the resident population included people connected with...
...Features : Year Page Year Pages 1795 1812 1848 1871 1894 1919 1937 1968 1983 Chicago as...
|
| 2445 |
Journal of Father Jacques Marquette, Addressed to the Reverend Father Claude Dablon, Author: Jacques Marquette, S.J.(
Historical Source
) ...In the fall of 1674, Marquette remained in the Chicago region because he was too ill to travel to...
...where he intended to serve as a missionary. So he spent the winter in the Chicago area along the...
...south branch of the Chicago River. His account of his months in Chicago show the importance of the...
Date Created: 1674-1675,
Date Depicted: 1674-1675
|
| 2446 |
South Shore Beach Conditions, c.1920, Photographer: Unknown (produced for Woman's City Club of Chicago)(
Historical Source
) ...Photographer: Unknown (produced for Woman's City Club of Chicago)...
...of the twentieth century the Women's City Club of Chicago led a campaign to open additional bathing...
Date Created: c.1920,
Date Depicted: c.1920
|
| 2447 |
Woman's City Club Members Inspecting Lakefront, c.1920, Photographer: Unknown (produced for Woman's City Club of Chicago)(
Historical Source
) ...Photographer: Unknown (produced for Woman's City Club of Chicago)...
...In 1911, the Woman's City Club of Chicago continued its campaign to open additional public bathing...
Date Created: c.1920,
Date Depicted: c.1920
|
| 2448 |
Illinois Central Railroad Slip, 1895, Creator: Western Insurance Survey Co.(
Historical Source
) ...The connection between railroads and the Chicago harbor was a close one....
...The Galena and Chicago Railroad, the first into the city, laid tracks right...
...to the west bank of the North Branch of the Chicago River in 1848. A few years later, The Illinois...
Date Created: 1895,
Date Depicted: 1895
|
| 2449 |
John Fitzpatrick, n.d., Photographer: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...John Fitzpatrick, president of the Chicago Federation of Labor, is pictured here...
...addressing workers on the south side of Chicago....
Date Created: n.d.,
Date Depicted: n.d.
|
| 2450 |
Edward Brennan Scrapbook, 1901, Creator: Edward Brennan / Chicago Record Herald(
Historical Source
) ...Creator: Edward Brennan / Chicago Record Herald...
Date Created: 1901,
Date Depicted: 1901
|