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2581 Rand McNally Press, c.1946, Photographer: Unknown( Historical Source )
...by the Miehle Printing Press Company, a Chicago firm, for the production of atlases and textbooks....
Date Created: c.1946, Date Depicted: c.1946
2582 Artie, by George Ade, 1896 (Cover), Artist: John T. McCutcheon( Historical Source )
...first developed in Ade's feature column in the Chicago Record, "Stories of the Streets and of the...
Date Created: 1896, Date Depicted: 1896
2583 Society of Typographic Arts Flyer, Artist: Elmer Jacobs( Historical Source )
...The Society of Typographic Arts was Chicago's premier design professional organization from 1927...
Date Created: c.1930, Date Depicted: c.1930
2584 Chap-Book Cover, 1895, Artist: Will Bradley( Historical Source )
...Will Bradley poster for Stone & Kimball). Chicago literary magazines of the 1890's were dressed in...
Date Created: 1895, Date Depicted: 1895
2585 Skokie Marsh, n.d., Photographer: Fred M. Tuckerman( Historical Source )
...which connected to the North Branch of the Chicago River. It was transformed into the Skokie Lagoon...
Date Created: n.d., Date Depicted: n.d.
2586 Saloon Building, Artist: Unknown( Historical Source )
...Clark Streets. It was the longest hall in Chicago and served as the site of political, religious,...
Date Created: c.1884, Date Depicted: c.1884
2587 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
2588 "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
2589 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
2590 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
2591 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
2592 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
2593 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
2594 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
2595 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
2596 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
2597 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
2598 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
2599 Map of Lake Forest, 1873, ( Historical Source )
...a group from the Second Presbyterian Church of Chicago, intended to "establish an institution of...
...curving streets that converge at the depot of the Chicago and Milwaukee Railroad. On this 1873 map,...
Date Created: 1873, Date Depicted: 1873
2600 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.

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