| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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...
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 2451 |
Proposal for Soldier Field, n.d., Creator: Holabird & Roche, Chicago Plan Commission(
Historical Source
) ...Creator: Holabird & Roche, Chicago Plan Commission...
Date Created: n.d.,
Date Depicted: n.d.
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| 2452 |
View East toward Buckingham Fountain and Lake Michigan, 1959, Photographer: Kaufmann & Fabry(
Historical Source
) ...In 1959, Queen Elizabeth II visited Chicago to commemorate the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway,...
...ships from the St. Lawrence River in Canada via the Great Lakes to Chicago. The city's business and...
...had planned the visit to coincide with the Chicago International Trade Fair being held at Navy Pier....
Date Created: 1959,
Date Depicted: 1959
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| 2453 |
Pioneer, Photographer: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...Pioneer powered the first rail trip in the Chicago metropolitan area, between the city and Elmhurst...
...in 1848, along the first leg of the Galena and Chicago Railroad. The locomotive...
...is now part of the collections of the Chicago Historical Society....
Date Created: n.d.,
Date Depicted: 1848
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| 2454 |
This Is Cook County, 1958, Creator: Tom P. Barrett, Chicago Sun-Times(
Historical Source
) ...Creator: Tom P. Barrett, Chicago Sun-Times...
Date Created: 1958,
Date Depicted: 1958
|
| 2455 |
How Chicagoans Remember Their History, Douglas Knox and Russell Lewis(
Historical Source
) ...Case Study: Fort Dearborn Douglas Knox and Russell Lewis The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society....
...The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights Reserved. Portions are...
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| 2456 |
Video Gallery / Index, Sarah Marcus(
Historical Source
) ...Politics The Celebrity of Entertainment Sarah S. Marcus The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society....
...The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights Reserved. Portions are...
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| 2457 |
The Celebrity of Entertainment, (
Historical Source
) ...Studs' Place High Bandwidth Low Bandwidth Quicktime The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago ©...
...2005 Chicago Historical Society....
...The Encyclopedia of Chicago © 2004 The Newberry Library. All Rights Reserved. Portions are...
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| 2458 |
Map of Lake Forest, 1873, (
Historical Source
) ...central place." For the college and accompanying town, they searched out a site on the city's North...
...Louis, and Rock Island, Illinois, laid out the town in 1857. His design for Lake Forest echoes the...
...a group from the Second Presbyterian Church of Chicago, intended to "establish an institution of...
Date Created: 1873,
Date Depicted: 1873
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| 2459 |
DuSable Week Proclamation and Press Release, 1963, Creator: Office of the Mayor City of Chicago and African-American Heritage Association(
Historical Source
) ...Creator: Office of the Mayor City of Chicago and African-American Heritage Association...
...recognition of DuSable's status as "the first Chicago resident of record." A decade later the Museum...
Date Created: 1963,
Date Depicted: 1963
|
| 2460 |
Beginning of the 1919 Riot, Photographer: Unknown / Author: Chicago Commission on Race Relations(
Historical Source
) ...Photographer: Unknown / Author: Chicago Commission on Race Relations...
Date Created: 1919,
Date Depicted: 1919
|