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Bemm
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Vandercook Co.
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I. P. E. U.
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Kaufmann & Fabry Co.
10
Williams, True
7
Baker, Chicago
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Johnson, Donna Lee
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Maas & Manz Chicago
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Fowler
4
Barker
3
Bond-Chandler
3
Rebori, A. N.
3
U. & U.
3
C. P. Zacher & Co.
2
Chicago Aerial Survey Co.
2
Fuermann
2
Guerin, Jules
2
McCullough, Wm. A.
2
Moffett
2
Mulhaney, Thomas
2
Poole Bros. Chicago
2
A. N. Rebori
1
Altschuler, Franz
1
Bailey, Vernon Howe
1
Bidmoran Bros.
1
Brightly-Earlie
1
Burke & Atwell, Chicago
1
C. I. Eubrooke, Archt
1
Cameron, Edgar S.
1
Chandler
1
Chicago Tribune
1
Donaldson, Alice Willits
1
French, George W.
1
Friedman, Howard
1
Gehrig
1
Grover, Frank R.
1
Healy, G. P. A.
1
Hesler, Alexander
1
Holzer, J. A.
1
I.F.C. Inc.
1
J. Manz & Co.
1
Johnson, D. M., S. J., Father
1
Kaufmann Weimer & Fabry Co.
1
L. W. Taylor
1
Laughlin, Clarence John
1
McIntosh, Burr
1
McLean, Charles
1
Melville & Co.
1
Ottman, W.
1
Petford
1
Phillips, J. L.
1
Roberts, S.C.
1
Spies, August Vincent Theodore, 1855-1887
1
Staunton
1
Taylor
1
Town Country Photographers
1
V H & M
1
Wagner, Fred H.
1
Watriss, A. W.
1
Western S N L Engraving Co.
1
Wing, Frank
1
Zorn, Anders
1
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1860-1869
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1921-05-01
1
1921-11-18
1
1922-01-12
1
1922-05
1
1922-07
1
1928-09-07
1
1928-12-31
1
1930-06-09
1
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Photographs
440
Portraits
128
Prints
123
Drawings
31
Book covers
8
Paintings
8
Advertisements
7
Cartographic material
5
Montages
5
Architectural drawings
3
Fliers
2
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1
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1
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eng
112
ger
2
heb
1
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Houses
63
Labor unions
46
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29
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24
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22
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21
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20
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20
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18
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17
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16
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15
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15
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15
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13
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Haymarket Square Riot, Chicago, Ill., 1886.
11
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9
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3
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3
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3
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2
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2
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2
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2
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2
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2
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2
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2
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2
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2
Lumber industry
2
Maps
2
Coverage-Spatial
Chicago (Ill.)
230
Loop (Chicago, Ill.)
175
Near West Side (Chicago, Ill.)
30
Lincoln Park (Chicago, Ill.)
22
Rogers Park (Chicago, Ill.)
19
Near North Side (Chicago, Ill.)
16
Edgewater (Chicago, Ill.)
14
Evanston (Ill.)
13
Near South Side (Chicago, Ill.)
10
Douglas (Chicago, Ill.)
8
Chicago River (Ill.)
7
West Town (Chicago, Ill.)
6
New City (Chicago, Ill.)
5
Armour Square (Chicago, Ill.)
4
Dwight (Ill.)
4
Hyde Park (Chicago, Ill.)
4
Woodlawn (Chicago, Ill.)
4
Greater Grand Crossing (Chicago, Ill.)
3
Highland Park (Ill.)
3
Kenilworth (Ill.)
3
Lake View (Chicago, Ill.)
3
Uptown (Chicago, Ill.)
3
Chicago River
2
Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal (Ill.)
2
Forest Park (Ill.)
2
Jackson Park (Chicago, Ill.)
2
Kenwood (Chicago, Ill.)
2
Lower West Side (Chicago, Ill.)
2
Michigan, Lake
2
Oakland (Chicago, Ill.)
2
St. Louis, Mo.
2
Austin (Chicago, Ill.)
1
Clarendon Beach (Chicago, Ill.)
1
East Garfield Park (Chicago, Ill.)
1
Englewood (Chicago, Ill.)
1
Glencoe (Ill.)
1
Haymarket Square (Chicago, Ill.)
1
Humboldt Park (Chicago, Ill.)
1
Illinois and Michigan Canal (Ill.)
1
Lincoln Square (Chicago, Ill.)
1
Logan Square (Chicago, Ill.)
1
North Park (Chicago, Ill.)
1
Pyramids of Giza (Egypt)
1
St. Paul, Minn.
1
Washington Park (Chicago, Ill.)
1
Wilmette (Ill.)
1
Winnetka (Ill.)
1
Wisconsin
1
Coverage-Temporal
1910-1919
191
1900-1909
123
1860-1869
80
1920-1929
62
1880-1889
51
1890-1899
47
1930-1939
22
1960-1969
15
1870-1879
14
1850-1859
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50-50: Fighting Chicago's Crime Trusts
Abram Winegardner Harris
Al Capone
Alex Levin
Alphonse Capone and John Stege
Ambulance loaded with fire victims
American Brewing Academy
A. N. Fisher
Annealing department
Anton J. Cermak
Archibald Clybourne
Armour elevator
A. R. Parsons
Arrangements Committee
Arrival of Lincoln's body
Arthur Farrar
Art Institute
Art Institute of Chicago
Assembling department
Assembling department
Auditorium Building
August Spies
August Spies
Auto pumping engine
Bank vaults on main floor
Barney (Christian P.) Bertsche
Barney Oldfield, Jerry Eller, C. A. Coey
Battle-Cry of Freedom
Benjamin F. Ferguson
Benjamin F. Taylor
Bernard J. Mullaney
Bessie Abramowitz
Bion J. Arnold
Bird's-eye view
Bird's eye view of Grant Park
Blackstone branch interior
Board of directors
Bohemian Coat Makers Local 6
Bolster department
Bolt and rivet department
50-50: Fighting Chicago's Crime Trusts
Image | 1916
Cover of the book,"50-50": Fighting Chicago's Crime Trusts.
Abram Winegardner Harris
Image | 1912
Caption: "Abram Winegardner Harris: President of Northwestern University from 1906 until the present time". From text: "The next president of the University was Abram Winegardner Harris, who was elected on February 1st, 1906. Dr. Harris had already served as a college president, and was well equipped for the responsibilities assumed on this occasion. His scholarship and a...
Al Capone
Image | 1930
Caption: "His Favorite Pose" Here is an excellent likeness of Alphonse Capone, the Big Boy of Chicago Gangland, and the greatest gangster that ever lived. When King Al poses for a photograph which isn't often, he always turns his right cheek to the camera. The left one is disfigured by an ugly scar. Legend has it that Capone was struck by a machine gun bullet when he was...
Alex Levin
Image | 1922
Caption: "Alex Levin, Chairman, Board of Directors. Officers Chicago Joint Board". On photograph: "371 I. P. E. U."
Alphonse Capone and John Stege
Image | 1930
Caption: "Alphonse Capone, released from a Philadelphia jail, set Chicago on its ears, when he appeared unheralded in the office of John Stege, Commissioner of Detectives, and blandly inquired if he was wanted for anything. Capone with his attorney was then escorted to the Federal building where the same question was put to the United States District Attorney. On the same ...
Ambulance loaded with fire victims
Image | 1904
From text: "While the streets began to crowd for blocks around with weeping and heartbroken persons in mortal terror because of knowledge that loved ones had attended the performance, patrol wagons, ambulances and open wagons hurried the injured to hospitals. Before long they were called upon to perform the more grewsome [sic] task of removing the dead. In wagon loads the ...
American Brewing Academy
Image | 1901
Caption: "Amerikanische Brauer-Academie." Writing on building in image: "Wahl & Henius American Brewing Academy Scientific Station for Brewing American Brewers Review." The American Academy of Brewing was founded in 1891 by Robert Wahl and Max Henius, and in 1893 was located at 294 S. Water Street. (Source: Chicago Daily Tribune Feb. 1, 1893.)
A. N. Fisher
Image | 1922
Caption: "A. N. Fisher, President, 1920-1921. Officers Chicago Joint Board". On photograph: "371 I. P. E. U."
Annealing department
Image | 1908
Photograph is included in section on company's Grand Rapids facility.
Anton J. Cermak
Image | 1933
From text: "Cermak Was Elected World's Fair Mayor[.] 'I'm glad it was me instead of you.' Thus spoke the man that had been chosen to be Mayor of the city of Chicago during A Century of Progress Exposition on that memorable night of February 15, 1933, in Miami, Florida, when he was felled by an assassin's bullet as he was talking to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt."
Archibald Clybourne
Image | 1910
Caption: "Mr. and Mrs. Archibald Clybourne, types of the pioneer By Courtesy of the Chicago Historical Society". Archibald Clybourne (1802-1872), was a butcher and justice of the peace. (Source: Encyclopedia of Chicago.) Photograph is undated but appears to be from the 1860s.
Armour elevator
Image | 1906
Caption: "The Armour grain elevator is the largest in the city, and belongs to the millionaire meat packer. The owner is noted for his great wheat operations on the Board of Trade. The vast quantities of the actual product in this immense elevator have often been able to turn the market in his favor. The elevator is located on Goose Island in the Chicago River. The combi...
A. R. Parsons
Image | 1886
From text: A. R. Parsons is a medium sized, slimly built man, with a light mustache. By trade he is a printer. He is well educated, thoroughly posted on Socialism, and a fluent and stirring speaker. Unlike Spies, he is cool and calculating, and in his most rabid and inflammatory speeches weighed every word. He was the editor of the Alarm, an English edition of the Arbei...
Arrangements Committee
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Caption: "Arrangements Committee, 5th Biennial Convention, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Chicago May 8-13, 1922". On photograph: ""371 I. P. E. U."
Arrival of Lincoln's body
Image | 1910
Caption: "Arrival of Lincoln's Body in Chicago (The Hearse Preceded by White-Robed Girls)"
Arthur Farrar
Image | 1912
From text: "Arthur Farrar was born December 3, 1837, and died November 2, 1893, yet within this comparatively brief space of time his life wrought for good along many lines. Between his record and the highest ideals there was no discordant element. ... He belonged to that large quota of progressive and capable citizens that New England furnished to Chicago." Image appears...
Art Institute
Image | 1906
Caption: "This structure stands on the lake front facing Michigan Avenue, near the foot of Adams Street and was erected in 1893 at a cost of $785,000. It contains a rare collection of paintings, statuary and other objects of art. Many wealthy Chicagoans take especial pride in this institution and have enriched it by their liberal gifts. It is open to the public on Wednesd...
Art Institute of Chicago
Image | 1912
Caption: ""Art Institute on Michigan Avenue, facing Adams Street. Courtesy of Art Institute of Chicago""
Assembling department
Image | 1908
Photograph is included in section on company's Jersey City facility.
Assembling department
Image | 1908
Auditorium Building
Image | 1891
From text: " Auditorium Tower, the highest building in Chicago. The balcony is 260 feet high, and the observatory tower carries the height up to 275 feet. The flagstaff surmounting this is the highest thing in town--300 feet."
August Spies
Image | 1886
From text: "August Spies is a pale-faced, intellectual-looking German, thirty-six years of age. He was born in Hessia and came to this country in 1873. He has been a Socialist all his life, and started a newspaper in support of that cause in 1879. His paper was called the Arbeiter Zeitung, and a sheet was never published which contained matter more revolutionary to the law...
August Spies
Image | 1887
Frontispiece. Handwritten below, "With Compliments A. Spies."
Auto pumping engine
Image | 1919
Caption: "Averages 750 gallons per minute. This style of fire equipment replaces horsedrawn apparatus. It is so designed that the hose wagon and pump are combined in the same apparatus, which eliminates one piece of apparatus in the company where it is installed. It is of the latest design and the records show that the men are able to connect to hydrant, stretch 300 feet ...
Bank vaults on main floor
Image | 1902
From text: "At the rear of the banking floor are ten immense vaults in which the money, valuables, and books of the bank are placed at the close of each day's business. If ever anything built by human hands was made impregnable to assault from without, this business vault of the Chicago National Bank certainly was. It stands three stories in height and is clear of the wall...
Barney (Christian P.) Bertsche
Image | 1916
Caption: "Barney' (Christian P.) Bertsche, who guaranteed immunity from arrest to clairvoyants, wiretappers, pickpockets, gunmen and other criminals, at so much per month. As their representative he paid thousands of dollars to the graft syndicate in the detective bureau."
Barney Oldfield, Jerry Eller, C. A. Coey
Image | 1912
Caption: "Barney Oldfield, Jerry Eller and C. A. Coey in Mr. Coey's racing car."
Battle-Cry of Freedom
Image | 1910
Caption: "Cover of "The Battle-Cry of Freedom" (Written by George F. Root at the Time of Lincoln's Second Call for Troops
Benjamin F. Ferguson
Image | 1913
From text: "Benjamin Franklin Ferguson, an old and respected business man of Chicago, died April 10, 1905. By his will, after providing certain small bequests to relatives, he committed to the Northern Trust Company … all his estate, real, personal, and mixed, in trust, for certain uses and purposes ... The Trustees of the Art Institute of Chicago are Trustees of the inco...
Benjamin F. Taylor
Image | 1910
Caption: "Benjamin F. Taylor (Chicago's Poet of the War Period)"
Bernard J. Mullaney
Image | 1909
Bernard J. Mullaney was secretary to the mayor.
Bessie Abramowitz
Image | 1922
Caption: "Bessie Abramowitz (Mrs. Sidney Hillman)". On photograph: "371 I. P. E. U."
Bion J. Arnold
Image | 1907
From text: "Following the recommendation of the Committee on Local Transportation, the City Council, on the 26th of May, 1902, authorized the Mayor and City Comptroller to execute a contract with Bion J. Arnold, as expert engineer, for the rendering of such services as might be required by the committee ..." Also, "... Bion J. Arnold, expert to the Committee on Local Transp...
Bird's-eye view
Image | 1908
Photograph is included in section on company's Jersey City facility.
Bird's eye view of Grant Park
Image | 1919
Caption: "Bird's eye view at night of Grant Park, the façade of the city, the proposed harbor, and the lagoons of the proposed park on the south shore. From a painting by Jules Guerin. Copyright, The Commercial Club of Chicago."
Blackstone branch interior
Image | 1911
From text: "This beautiful structure is worthy of particular mention, not only because it is one of the finest and costliest library buildings of its size in the world, but also because it marks the beginning of the branch library system in Chicago. The location is a triangular lot at the intersection of Lake and Washington avenues and Forty-ninth street. .. It is construct...
Board of directors
Image | 1908
Caption: "Board of Directors: E. L. Adreon, John P. Ahrens, Jesse A. Baldwin, E. B. Leigh, F. P. Hays, C. S. Gleed, Albert Blair".
Bohemian Coat Makers Local 6
Image | 1922
Caption: "Officers and Executive Board Members Bohemian Coat Makers Local 6". On photograph: "371 I. P. E. U."
Bolster department
Image | 1908
Caption: "Bolster Dep't Hydraulic Press Multiple Punch". Photograph is included in section on company's Detroit facility.
Bolt and rivet department
Image | 1908
Photograph is included in section on company's Detroit facility.
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