| 2551 |
Title Page of What of the City?, 1919, Creator: Walter D. Moody(
Historical Source
) ...Moody's reflections on his experiences as a promoter of the planning idea and the Plan of Chicago....
Date Created: 1919,
Date Depicted: 1919
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| 2552 |
Mandel Brothers Advertisement in New World, 1934, Creator: New World(
Historical Source
) ...ad in a 1934 publication of the Archdiocese of Chicago to announce the existence of private shopping...
...The practical needs of diverse faiths in Chicago have supported religious supply stores, bookstores,...
Date Created: 1934,
Date Depicted: 1934
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| 2553 |
"Opposing Much Needed Civic Improvements," c.1922, Adapted from cartoon by John McCutcheon(
Historical Source
) ...as part of the campaign to build support for proposals in the Plan of Chicago, was adapted from an...
...editorial cartoon by the Chicago Tribune's John McCutcheon that originally appeared on September 26,...
Date Created: c.1922,
Date Depicted: c.1922
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| 2554 |
Disc Jockey Jack L. Cooper, 1954, Photographer: Graphic Photo Service, Inc.(
Historical Source
) ...Pioneering Chicago disc jockey Jack L. Cooper, in the WSBC studios at 2400 W. Madison, where he...
Date Created: 1954,
Date Depicted: 1954
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| 2555 |
Daniel Burnham to Charles Norton, 1906, Creator: Daniel H. Burnham(
Historical Source
) ...accepts Charles Norton's invitation to discuss the potential of developing a city plan for Chicago....
Date Created: 1906,
Date Depicted: 1906
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| 2556 |
Harold Washington Library Center, c.1990, Photographer: John McCarthy(
Historical Source
) ...The current main branch of Chicago's public library system, here shown under construction, opened in...
...the building it succeeded, which is now the Chicago Cultural Center, located on Michigan Avenue...
Date Created: c.1990,
Date Depicted: c.1990
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| 2557 |
Pork Packing and Canning, 1880, (
Historical Source
) ...This promotional lithograph published in Chicago offered a remarkably sanitized view of the pork...
...accurately reflected the popularity of Chicago's meat-packing facilities as a tourist destination,...
Date Created: 1880,
Date Depicted: 1880
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| 2558 |
Illinois Central Railroad Depot, 1858, Photographer: Alexander Hesler(
Historical Source
) ...Central depot and grain elevators, south of the Chicago River, north of what would, when filled with...
Date Created: 1858,
Date Depicted: 1858
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| 2559 |
Union Stock Yard Canning Room, c.1890, Photographer: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...Meat packed in the canning rooms of Chicago's Union Stock Yard (here c. 1890) was sold throughout...
Date Created: c.1890,
Date Depicted: c.1890
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| 2560 |
Masonic Temple, 1894, Artist: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...A city under one roof--the Masonic Temple, Chicago," 1894, showing the temple's height relative to...
Date Created: 1894,
Date Depicted: 1894
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| 2561 |
Polk Street, c.1957, Photographer: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...construction of the University of Illinois at Chicago, looking eastward from 1020 West Polk, c....
Date Created: c.1957,
Date Depicted: c.1957
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| 2562 |
Wisconsin Central Depot in Antioch, c.1928, Photographer: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...Wisconsin Central trains brought hundreds from Chicago on summer Saturdays to the Chain of Lakes...
Date Created: c.1928,
Date Depicted: c.1928
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| 2563 |
Harold Washington Taking Oath of Office, 1983, Photographer: Ernie Cox, Jr.(
Historical Source
) ...of office to Harold Washington, who became Chicago's forty-second mayor. Breaking with tradition,...
...and Studs Terkel, performances by the Chicago Children's Choir and the Morris Ellis Orchestra, and...
Date Created: 1983,
Date Depicted: 1983
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| 2564 |
Smashing Slot Machines, 1907, Photographer: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...Slot machines, seized in an effort to curtail gambling in Chicago, are destroyed with hammers, 1907....
Date Created: 1907,
Date Depicted: 1907
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| 2565 |
WPA Syphilis Poster, 1930s, Artist: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...Art Project created tactful publicity to aid the Chicago Health Department's efforts to eradicate...
Date Created: 1938,
Date Depicted: 1938
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| 2566 |
Black Hawk Portrait, n.d., (
Historical Source
) ...traveling east to join Tecumseh's forces, arrived in Chicago just after the massacre. He later...
...a considerable quantity of powder in the Fort at Chicago which they had promised to the Indians; but...
Date Created: n.d.,
Date Depicted: n.d.
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| 2567 |
U. S. Troops on Lakefront, 1894, Artist: T. Dart Walker (from a photograph by J. W. Taylor)(
Historical Source
) ...both the high visibility of the army troops in Chicago and the skyline that the city had celebrated...
...6,000 federal and state troops, 3,100 police, and 5,000 deputy marshals in Chicago during July 1894....
Date Created: 1894,
Date Depicted: 1894
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| 2568 |
Riot at Blue Island, 1894, Artist: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...The unrest at Blue Island sketched here in the Chicago Tribune led Attorney General Richard Olney to...
...employees on the 24 railroads centering in Chicago lost wages of at least $1,389,143. In addition, "...
Date Created: 1894,
Date Depicted: 1894
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| 2569 |
National Guardsmen Questioning African American, 1919, Photographer: Jun Fujita(
Historical Source
) ...legally segregated residential districts in the city. Chicago was hardly unique: 26 American cities...
...race riots during the summer of 1919. Chicago's riots killed and injured more people than the...
Date Created: 1919,
Date Depicted: 1919
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| 2570 |
View of DuSable's Cabin, Artist: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...which appeared in A. T. Andreas's History of Chicago in 1884, Jean Baptiste and Catherine Point...
...on the north side of the main branch of the Chicago River just west of Lake Michigan. When sold in...
Date Created: 1884,
Date Depicted: 1779
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