| 2651 |
Henry Holstein Property, 1874, Artist: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...process his neighbor's wheat for shipment to Chicago. From Combination Atlas Map of DuPage County,...
Date Created: 1874,
Date Depicted: 1874
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| 2652 |
"Irishmen Attention!," Campaign Poster, 1887, Creator: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...of nineteenth-century ethnic politics in Chicago. The fusing of identities as "white" and "American"...
Date Created: 1887,
Date Depicted: 1887
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| 2653 |
Cabrini High-Rises, 1959, Photographer: Betty Hulett(
Historical Source
) ...Cabrini high-rises, 1959. The Chicago Housing Authority completed this "Cabrini Extension" in 1958,...
Date Created: 1959,
Date Depicted: 1959
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| 2654 |
Promotional Poster for Cavalcade of the American Negro, 1940, Artist: Cleo Sara(
Historical Source
) ...accompany the Diamond Jubilee Exposition held in Chicago in 1940 to celebrate 75 years of freedom....
Date Created: 1940,
Date Depicted: 1940
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| 2655 |
Egg-Breaking Plant, 1941, Photographer: John Vachon(
Historical Source
) ...Women working in an egg-breaking plant, Chicago, July 1941. Egg breaking to provide processed egg...
Date Created: 1941,
Date Depicted: 1941
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| 2656 |
Carter Harrison Campaign Poster, 1911, (
Historical Source
) ...father, served five two-year terms as mayor of Chicago, from 1897 to 1905, and then from 1911 to...
Date Created: 1911,
Date Depicted: 1911
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| 2657 |
Wacker Drive, c.1930, Photographer: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...part of Daniel H. Burnham's 1909 Plan of Chicago. He envisioned a two-level street to replace the...
Date Created: c.1930,
Date Depicted: c.1930
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| 2658 |
Causes of Death, 1897-1944, Creator: U.S. Public Health Service(
Historical Source
) ...in the leading causes of mortality in Chicago. Increasingly, Chicagoans died from complications...
Date Created: 1949,
Date Depicted: 1949
|
| 2659 |
Corner of State and Madison After the Fire, 1871, Photographer: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...traces of the destruction were gone, and Chicago expanded and improved as it was resurrected. This...
Date Created: 1871,
Date Depicted: 1871
|
| 2660 |
Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building in Ruins, 1894, (
Historical Source
) ...Some of Chicago's unemployed took refuge in the abandoned buildings on the world's fair grounds. On...
Date Created: 1894,
Date Depicted: 1894
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| 2661 |
View of the Public Square, 1848, Creator: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...Chicago in 1848 was still a relatively small, raw, muddy city, growing at a pace that...
...would not always be graceful. On April 25, the Chicago Daily Journal published an engraving of...
Date Created: 1848,
Date Depicted: 1848
|
| 2662 |
John G. Shortall, "Child Saving Work of the Humane Societies," 1897, Author: John G. Shortall(
Historical Source
) ...John G. Shortall, one of the founders of Chicago Title & Trust, was also a driving force in the...
...creation of the American Humane Society. Chicago, as a center of the meatpacking industry, was also...
Date Created: 1897,
Date Depicted: 1897
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| 2663 |
Descriptive Sketch of Lake Bluff, Creator: Lake Bluff Hotel and Improvement Co.(
Historical Source
) ...gathering place. Within a decade wealthy Chicago businessmen and their families began to travel to...
Date Created: n.d.,
Date Depicted: n.d.
|
| 2664 |
"Bureau of Public Comfort," Official Directory of the World's Columbian Exposition, 1893, Editor: Moses P. Handy(
Historical Source
) ...or sterilized, showing a general lack of confidence in Chicago’s tap water to stave off disease....
Date Created: 1893,
Date Depicted: 1893
|
| 2665 |
Election Returns, 1830, Creators: John B. Beaubien, James Kinzie, and Charles Kettelle(
Historical Source
) ...wide elections, thirty-two men living in the "Chicago precinct" gathered in the home of John Kinzie...
Date Created: 1830,
Date Depicted: 1830
|
| 2666 |
Change of Address Postcards, 1909, Creator: Alfred Holzman(
Historical Source
) ...The renumbering of Chicago's streets in 1909 and 1911 obviously required a great deal of...
Date Created: 1909,
Date Depicted: 1909
|
| 2667 |
Plat Map of Cook County, 1861, Cartographer: W. L. Flower(
Historical Source
) ...and undeveloped areas of Cook County outside Chicago in 1861. Sections that had been laid down by...
Date Created: 1861,
Date Depicted: 1861
|
| 2668 |
Illinois and Michigan Canal Lots, 1850, (
Historical Source
) ...Canal commissioners made the first plat of Chicago in 1830 on land granted to Illinois by the...
Date Created: 1850,
Date Depicted: 1850
|
| 2669 |
Hammond Bicentennial Yearbook, 1976, Creator: Hammond American Bicentennial Committee(
Historical Source
) ...1930s a few older municipalities, including Chicago and Aurora, observed their centennials. During...
Date Created: 1976,
Date Depicted: 1976
|
| 2670 |
Committee Minutes, 1906, (
Historical Source
) ...third meeting of planners developing the Plan of Chicago shows how quickly they got to work and how...
Date Created: 1906,
Date Depicted: 1906
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