| 2461 |
Zenith Radio Store, 1936, Photographer: Philip B. Maher, Hedrich-Blessing(
Historical Source
) ...to-ceiling windows of this Zenith Radio store in Chicago in September 1936. Personal radio purchases...
...in 1936, which coincided with a drop in radio prices and increased sales for the Chicago company....
Date Created: 1936,
Date Depicted: 1936
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| 2462 |
Reproduction of Fort Dearborn at the Century of Progress Exposition, 1933, Photographer: Kaufmann & Fabry Co.(
Historical Source
) ...Century of Progress Exposition could measure Chicago's progress by walking through a replica of Fort...
...of the world, visitors could engage Chicago's history by becoming tourists of a reconstruction of a...
Date Created: 1933,
Date Depicted: 1933
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| 2463 |
Daniel Burnham's Notes, 1908, Author: Daniel H. Burnham(
Historical Source
) ...before a special closed meeting of the Commercial Club of Chicago, using a series of lantern...
...slides to summarize the Plan of Chicago, which would be published in 1909. In these preliminary...
Date Created: 1908,
Date Depicted: 1908
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| 2464 |
LaSalle Street Bridge, 1928, Photographer: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...Looking east along the Chicago River at the LaSalle Street Bridge prior to completion, 1928....
Date Created: 1928,
Date Depicted: 1928
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| 2465 |
Terrace Garden Restaurant, c. 1920s, Photographer: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...Morrison Hotel at Clark and Madison in downtown Chicago, offered patrons live music and dancing with...
...the Morrison advertised itself as the focus of Chicago's downtown life. The restaurant was razed in...
Date Created: c.1920s,
Date Depicted: c.1920s
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| 2466 |
Vacant Property Razed for UIC, 1962, Photographer: Larry Hemenway(
Historical Source
) ...Vacant property razed to make way for the University of Illinois at Chicago, 1962....
Date Created: 1962,
Date Depicted: 1962
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| 2467 |
Selig Polyscope Lot, 1914, Photographer: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...Filming a movie set at the Selig Polyscope lot, Western and Irving Park, Chicago, 1914....
Date Created: 1914,
Date Depicted: 1914
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| 2468 |
North-Western Hymn Book, 1868, (
Historical Source
) ...Title page of The North-Western Hymn Book, compiled by D. L. Moody (Chicago, 1868)....
Date Created: 1868,
Date Depicted: 1868
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| 2469 |
Barracks of Second Fort Dearborn, 1856, Photographer: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...After Chicago became a city in 1837, it grew rapidly around the edges of the second Fort...
...in 1816. The fort persisted until 1857, when Chicago had a population of more than 80,000. It was...
Date Created: 1856,
Date Depicted: 1856
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| 2470 |
Year Page: 1871, Karen Sawislak(
Year Page
) ...1871, less than 40 years after its incorporation, Chicago had mushroomed from a pioneer outpost to a...
...arrived every year to see what opportunities Chicago might hold. All this was interrupted the night...
...30 a.m. ; the blaze leapt the main branch of the Chicago River soon after. For almost 20 hours more,...
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| 2471 |
Thos. Kelly & Bros. Catalog, 1893, Creator: Thomas Kelly & Bros.(
Historical Source
) ...By the 1890s, Chicago companies were manufacturing specialized plumbing fixtures. Some are familiar...
Date Created: 1893,
Date Depicted: 1893
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| 2472 |
Letter from Dixwell Lathrop to John Rockwell, 11 June 1835, Author: Dixwell Lathrop(
Historical Source
) ...In Chicago, as in much of the Northwest Territory, the division of the land into lots for sale led...
...Lathrop discusses the auctions of lots in Chicago. He is unimpressed by the town, and the price of $...
Date Created: 1835,
Date Depicted: 1835
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| 2473 |
James Mulligan to Priest and Professors of St. Mary School, 1854, Author: James Mulligan(
Historical Source
) ...and found expression in the Yankee-run Chicago Tribune. James Mulligan, a young Irish Catholic...
...to become the editor of the Western Tablet, a Chicago Catholic paper, and during the Civil War he...
Date Created: 1854,
Date Depicted: 1854
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| 2474 |
Arent Schuyler de Peyster, Miscellanies, 1813, Author: Arent Schuyler de Peyster(
Historical Source
) ...to Jean Baptiste Point DuSable's residence in Chicago in a footnote to a lengthy verse entitled "...
...in the early 1780s, and that he settled in Chicago in the mid-1780s. Nevertheless DePeyster's...
...footnote has led many to assume that DuSable had settled in Chicago by 1779....
Date Created: 1813,
Date Depicted: 1779
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| 2475 |
Passport of Nanni Helena Korolainen, 1921, (
Historical Source
) ...passport, Nanni Helena Korolainen was 17 years old when she moved from Finland to Chicago in 1921....
Date Created: 1921,
Date Depicted: 1921
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| 2476 |
International Golden Gloves Program, 1938, (
Historical Source
) ...Poland, Finland, and Ireland arrived in Chicago to compete in the seventh International Golden...
...series of bouts before a sold-out crowd at the Chicago Stadium. The U.S. team, which won five of the...
Date Created: 1938,
Date Depicted: 1938
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| 2477 |
Twelfth and Jefferson Streets, 1906, Photographer: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...Twelfth Street (now Roosevelt Road) toward Halsted Street, in the Near West Side of Chicago, 1906....
Date Created: 1906,
Date Depicted: 1906
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| 2478 |
Merchant's Club Committee Minutes, 1906, Creator: Merchant's Club(
Historical Source
) ...from the Merchants Club begins deliberations regarding the development of a city plan for Chicago....
Date Created: 1906,
Date Depicted: 1906
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| 2479 |
Jules Guerin Note to Daniel H. Burnham, 1907, Author: Jules Guerin(
Historical Source
) ...message to Burnham, informing the architect of his imminent arrival in Chicago to work on the Plan....
Date Created: 1907,
Date Depicted: 1907
|
| 2480 |
Kitchen in Brooks Homes, 1954, Photographer: Mildred Mead(
Historical Source
) ...The Chicago Housing Authority replaced often substandard housing with new units with modern kitchens...
...is a kitchen in the new Brooks Homes on Chicago's Near West Side in 1954. The low-rise development...
Date Created: 1954,
Date Depicted: 1954
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