| 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
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| 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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| 2481 |
Wreckage of the Rush Street Bridge, 1863, Photographer: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...most serious one of its kind" in the history of Chicago. The bridge was repaired and was still in...
...use on the night of October 8, 1871, when it was destroyed by the Chicago Fire....
Date Created: 1863,
Date Depicted: 1863
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| 2482 |
Lasting Effects of Snowstorm, 1967, Photographer: Howard B. Anderson(
Historical Source
) ...looking north on Sunday, January 28, 1967, three days after 23 inches of snow fell on Chicago....
Date Created: 1967,
Date Depicted: 1967
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| 2483 |
Poster Depicting "$acred Motherhood," 1908, Artist: Luther Bradley(
Historical Source
) ...$acred Motherhood" was created in 1908 by Chicago Daily News cartoonist Luther Bradley for...
...of the Women's Trade Union League and the Chicago Federation of Labor. Simultaneously calling for a...
Date Created: 1908,
Date Depicted: 1908
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| 2484 |
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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| 2485 |
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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| 2486 |
"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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| 2487 |
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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| 2488 |
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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| 2489 |
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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| 2490 |
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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