| 2491 |
Temperance Parade, 1908, Photographer: Charles R. Childs(
Historical Source
) ...Cook County Woman's Christian Temperance Union organized a "dry" parade in Chicago that drew 6,000...
...marchers, according to the Chicago Record Herald. Under the campaign slogan "Let Illinois Go Dry,"...
...communities to prohibit the sale of liquor but found little support in Chicago's precincts....
Date Created: 1908,
Date Depicted: 1908
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| 2492 |
W. T. Stead Map, 1894, Cartographer: W. T. Stead(
Historical Source
) ...Stead's If Christ Came to Chicago opened with a foldout juxtaposing an image of Christ and the money...
...Clark, Dearborn, Harrison, and Polk Streets in Chicago's First Ward. The map both illustrated many...
...social information that informed the Hull House Maps and Papers and the Chicago School sociologists....
Date Created: 1894,
Date Depicted: 1894
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| 2493 |
Ticket to Joe Louis - Jim Braddock fight, 1937, (
Historical Source
) ...eighth round was not only a matter of pride for Chicago's African American community, it was also a...
...the fight, about 75 percent were visitors to Chicago. Included in the audience were governors,...
...Airlines flew six extra 21-seat planes to Chicago. The largest hotels were booked six weeks in...
Date Created: 1937,
Date Depicted: 1937
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| 2494 |
Chapters in the History of the Arts and Crafts Movement, Oscar Lovell Triggs, 1902, (
Historical Source
) ...Oscar Lovell Triggs, an English instructor at the University of Chicago, helped found the...
...Industrial Art League of Chicago in 1899. Along with Frank Lowden, Emil Hirsch, Newton Partridge,...
Date Created: 1902,
Date Depicted:
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| 2495 |
Panoramic View of U.S. Steel Gary Works, 1936, Photographer: U. S. Steel Corp.(
Historical Source
) ...The expansive mill was separated from the town of Gary by a channel constructed to narrow the Grand...
Date Created: 1936,
Date Depicted: 1936
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| 2496 |
"Hibbardville" in A Great-Grandmother Remembers by Addie Hibbard Gregory, 1940, Creator: Addie Hibbard Gregory(
Historical Source
) ...So many of the children of Lydia and William Gold Hibbard lived near their parents' home at 1701...
Date Created: 1940,
Date Depicted: c.1890
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| 2497 |
Plaque Commemorating Opening of Michigan Avenue Bridge, Photographer: James D. McMahon(
Historical Source
) ...On the lower right, E. H. Bennett, one of the authors of the 1909 Plan of Chicago, is listed as...
...Consulting Architect of the Chicago Plan Commission....
Date Created: n.d.,
Date Depicted: 1920
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| 2498 |
"Defying the Authorities," c.1920, Photographer: Unknown (produced for Woman's City Club of Chicago)(
Historical Source
) ...Photographer: Unknown (produced for Woman's City Club of Chicago)...
Date Created: c.1920,
Date Depicted: c.1920
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| 2499 |
"Boy's-Eye View of Lake Michigan," c.1920, Photographer: Unknown (produced for Woman's City Club of Chicago)(
Historical Source
) ...Photographer: Unknown (produced for Woman's City Club of Chicago)...
Date Created: c.1920,
Date Depicted: c.1920
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| 2500 |
River Traffic at Rush Street Swing Bridge, c.1900, Photographer: Mellen(
Historical Source
) ...The swing bridge at Rush Street was rebuilt after the 1871 Chicago Fire. At the turn of...
...century, the movable bridge still operated on a Chicago River busy with a wide range of shipping, as...
Date Created: c.1900,
Date Depicted: c.1900
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| 2501 |
Portrait of Charles H. Wacker, n.d., Creator: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...Charles H. Wacker, Chairman of the Chicago Plan Commission from 1909 to 1926....
Date Created: n.d.,
Date Depicted: n.d.
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| 2502 |
Noble-Seymour-Crippen House, 2004, Photographer: Betsy Keating(
Historical Source
) ...The Noble-Seymour-Crippen House in the Norwood Park neighborhood on Chicago's northwest side is the...
...oldest extant building in Chicago. The Noble family built the southern single-storied part of the...
Date Created: 2004,
Date Depicted: 2004
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| 2503 |
Water Tower, 1871, Photographer: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...in 1869 and connected to the Water Tower and Pumping Station at Chicago and Michigan Avenues....
...Today, multiple lake tunnels and pumping stations constitute Chicago's water system....
Date Created: 1871,
Date Depicted: 1871
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| 2504 |
Picket Line, 1941, Photographer: John Vachon(
Historical Source
) ...Picket line in front of the Mid-City Realty Company, South Chicago, July 1941....
Date Created: 1941,
Date Depicted: 1941
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| 2505 |
Pullman Sleeping Car, 1940, Photographer: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...Pullman began manufacturing sleeping cars in Chicago in the 1860s. This is an exterior shot of one...
...in 1940, of the 90th anniversary of the first rail connection between Aurora and Chicago....
Date Created: 1940,
Date Depicted: 1940
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| 2506 |
Girls' Race at Adams Playground, 1907, Photographer: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...Girls' race at Adams Playground, 1919 North Seminary, Chicago Special Park Commission, 1907....
Date Created: 1907,
Date Depicted: 1907
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| 2507 |
Free Public Bathhouse, 1950, Photographer: Mildred Mead(
Historical Source
) ...the still-operating William Mavor bath, constructed in 1900 and named after a Chicago alderman. The...
...third municipal bath opened by the city of Chicago, it was located at 4645 Gross (later McDowell)...
Date Created: 1950,
Date Depicted: 1950
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| 2508 |
Stagg Field, 1927, Photographer: Howard Webster(
Historical Source
) ...Stagg Field, University of Chicago, November 1927....
...Named after legendary Chicago coach Amos Alonzo Stagg, the now-demolished stadium eventually became...
Date Created: 1927,
Date Depicted: 1927
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| 2509 |
Illinois Tunnel Company Warehouse, 1910, Photographer: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...The Illinois Tunnel Company's new storage warehouse, c. 1910, Taylor Street at the Chicago River....
Date Created: c.1910,
Date Depicted: c. 1910
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| 2510 |
"What Dante Missed," The Vice Bondage of a Great City, 1912, Artist: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...of a Great City (1912) typified early twentieth-century portrayals of Chicago as riddled with vice....
...The book's refrain, "Chicago is the Wickedest City in the World," punctuates references to the...
Date Created: 1912,
Date Depicted: 1912
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