| 2681 |
Street Raising on Lake Street between Clark and LaSalle Streets, 1850s, Creator: Edward Mendel(
Historical Source
) ...Chicago's swampy setting led to its literally raising itself out of the mud. Several buildings were...
Date Created: 1860,
Date Depicted: 1855
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| 2682 |
Dill Pickle Club Advertisement, Creator: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...One of many "little theaters" in Chicago during the 1910s and 1920s, the Dill Pickle Club featured...
Date Created: c.1920s,
Date Depicted: c.1920s
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| 2683 |
Bird's-Eye View of Stock Yard, 1860s, Creator: James Washington Sheahan(
Historical Source
) ...the empty land into residential neighborhoods that, in 1889, were annexed to the City of Chicago....
Date Created: 1866,
Date Depicted: 1866
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| 2684 |
Marquette's Map, Cartographer: Jacques Marquette(
Historical Source
) ...during high water from the South Branch of the Chicago River through Mud Lake, into the Des Plaines...
Date Created: n.d.,
Date Depicted: c.1673
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| 2685 |
Home and Training School for Nurses, Hahnemann Hospital, 1909, Photographer: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...By the beginning of the twentieth century, Chicago had become the center for homeopathic medical...
Date Created: 1909,
Date Depicted: 1909
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| 2686 |
Joe Jackson Subpoena, 1920, (
Historical Source
) ...Mountain Landis, formerly a federal judge in Chicago, banned them from professional baseball....
Date Created: 1920,
Date Depicted: 1920
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| 2687 |
"We Support Mayor Daley," 1968, (
Historical Source
) ...a great majority of Americans approved of the Chicago policemen's use of force and Mayor Daley's...
Date Created: 1968,
Date Depicted: 1968
|
| 2688 |
Campaign Button for Harold Washington, 1983, (
Historical Source
) ...campaign. Washington's campaign invigorated Chicago politics and attracted tens of thousands of new...
Date Created: 1983,
Date Depicted: 1983
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| 2689 |
Committee Minutes, 1908, Author: Frederic A. Delano(
Historical Source
) ...contribution toward development of the Plan of Chicago, as well as the announcement of the hiring of...
Date Created: 1908,
Date Depicted:
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| 2690 |
Riverside in 1871, Creator: Riverside Improvement Company(
Historical Source
) ...Railroads ran out from Chicago’s center to a growing hinterland by the mid-nineteenth century....
Date Created: 1871,
Date Depicted: 1871
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| 2691 |
Letter from A. A. McCormick to C. D. Norton, 1904, Creator: A. A. McCormick(
Historical Source
) ...In this response to an inquiry from future Plan of Chicago Committee chair Charles Norton about the...
Date Created: 1904,
Date Depicted: 1904
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| 2692 |
Lacey Family Letters regarding Typhoid, 1884, Authors: Members of the Lacey family(
Historical Source
) ...his mother about the cholera situation in Chicago. By August 15, Lacey was sick with typhoid fever,...
Date Created: 1884,
Date Depicted: 1884
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| 2693 |
Report on Under-Sidewalk Toilets, 1936, Author: Edith Abbott(
Historical Source
) ...In The Tenements of Chicago, 1908-1935 (1936), Edith Abbott compiled a table showing "tenement...
Date Created: 1936,
Date Depicted: 1908-1935
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| 2694 |
Potter Palmer Account Ledgers, 1889-1891, Creator: Potter Palmer(
Historical Source
) ...Palmer built more than 50 large houses on Chicago's Near North Side between 1889 and 1891, the area...
Date Created: 1889-1891,
Date Depicted: 1889-1891
|
| 2695 |
Edgar Bancroft to Charles Norton, 1905, Creator: Edgar Bancroft(
Historical Source
) ...from working for parks and playgrounds in Chicago's neighborhoods to reorganizing the consular...
Date Created: 1905,
Date Depicted: 1905
|
| 2696 |
Life of Mary Monholland, 1894, Creator: Member of the Order of Mercy in the West(
Historical Source
) ...Nuns from the Sisters of Mercy first came to Chicago at Bishop William Quarter's invitation in 1846,...
Date Created: 1894,
Date Depicted: 1850s
|
| 2697 |
World's Parliament of Religions, 1893, Creator: John H. Barrows(
Historical Source
) ...the religious traditions to be found in the Chicago metropolitan area became even more diverse than...
Date Created: 1893,
Date Depicted: 1893
|
| 2698 |
Peruvian National Exposition, 1942, Creator: Mandel Brothers(
Historical Source
) ...sale of Peruvian goods in the United States. Chicago's business, political, and religious leaders,...
Date Created: 1942,
Date Depicted: 1942
|
| 2699 |
Riverside Water Tower, 1972, Photographer: John McCarthy(
Historical Source
) ...well outside the bounds of the City of Chicago's water system. Riverside residents soon organized a...
Date Created: 1972,
Date Depicted: 1972
|
| 2700 |
Lincoln Park Beach, n.d., Photographer: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...more than three hundred working-class boys from Chicago's North Side, referred to by the papers as "...
Date Created: c.1895,
Date Depicted: c. 1895
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