| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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.
|
| 2601 |
"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
|
| 2602 |
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
|
| 2603 |
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
|
| 2604 |
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
|
| 2605 |
Town of Jefferson Annexation Petition, 1886, Creators: Various(
Historical Source
) ...Jefferson petitioned to be annexed to the City of Chicago. The area, just northwest of Western and...
Date Created: 1886,
Date Depicted: 1886
|
| 2606 |
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
|
| 2607 |
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
|
| 2608 |
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
|
| 2609 |
Draft of Speech by Daniel H. Burnham, n.d., Creator: Daniel H. Burnham(
Historical Source
) ...calculations) of a speech in support of the Plan of Chicago. The letterhead was designed for a suite...
Date Created: n.d.,
Date Depicted: n.d.
|
| 2610 |
Hull House Map (Nationalities), 1895, (
Historical Source
) ...West Side neighborhood, which housed many of Chicago's most recent immigrants, most of whom came...
Date Created: 1895,
Date Depicted: 1895
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