| 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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| 2511 |
Wrecked Horse-Drawn Buggy, 1909, (
Historical Source
) ...Horse-drawn buggy wrecked in collision with Aurora, Elgin & Chicago interurban train, Wheaton, 1909....
Date Created: 1909,
Date Depicted: 1909
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| 2512 |
Illinois Steel Works and Harbor Entrance, 1890-1901, Photographer: Detroit Publishing Company(
Historical Source
) ...Illinois Steel Works and harbor entrance, Calumet River, South Chicago, between 1890 and 1901....
Date Created: 1890-1901,
Date Depicted: 1890-1901
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| 2513 |
"Zephyr" Ticket Counter, Union Station, 1943, Photographer: Jack Delano(
Historical Source
) ...Ticket counter for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad's "Zephyr," Union Station, 1943....
Date Created: 1943,
Date Depicted: 1943
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| 2514 |
Sanitary and Ship Canal Construction Cranes, 1895, Photographer: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...Sanitary and Ship Canal improved shipping from Chicago to the Mississippi River (via the Illinois...
...of protecting the city's drinking supply by directing the Chicago River away from Lake Michigan....
Date Created: 1895,
Date Depicted: 1895
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| 2515 |
"Grand March at Bathhouse John's Ball," 1908, Artist: John T. McCutcheon(
Historical Source
) ...A cartoon by John T. McCutcheon, in the Chicago Tribune, 1908....
Date Created: 1908,
Date Depicted: 1908
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| 2516 |
"The Color Line Has Reached the North," 1919, Artist: John T. McCutcheon(
Historical Source
) ...Cartoon by John T. McCutcheon, Chicago Tribune, July 28, 1919....
Date Created: 1919,
Date Depicted: 1919
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| 2517 |
Sheep in the Union Stock Yard, 1897, (
Historical Source
) ...Manufacturing Company Institution: Library of Congress 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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| 2518 |
Dinner with Mayor Edward J. Kelly, 1938, Photographer: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...1974, after four decades as an alderman on Chicago's City Council, Keane was convicted of mail fraud...
...conspiracy. Arvey wielded significant political clout as a leader of the Chicago Democratic party....
Date Created: ,
Date Depicted:
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| 2519 |
Year Page: 1812, Ann Durkin Keating(
Year Page
) ...leader traveling east to joinTecumseh's forces, arrived in Chicago just after themassacre. He later...
...considerablequantity of powder in the fort at Chicago whichthey had promised to the Indians; but the...
...at Fort Dearborn was located on the south side of the Chicago River, near its entry point into Lake...
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| 2520 |
Prairie Avenue, Arthur Meeker, 1949, Author: Arthur Meeker(
Historical Source
) ...of Armour & Co. who was deeply involved in Chicago business, politics, and society. Much of Meeker's...
...the interaction of those aspects of life in Chicago. For Prairie Avenue, Meeker drew heavily on the...
...its readers about Prairie Avenue, a site of Chicago history that he felt by 1949 had already been...
Date Created: 1949,
Date Depicted: ????
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