tag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:/collections/810f5dc0-e3fb-012f-c5b6-0019b9e633c5-6/itemsPicture Chicago2023-11-30T16:48:14Ztag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/396842016-08-11T15:00:35Z2023-11-30T16:48:38Z50-50: Fighting Chicago's Crime TrustsCover of the book,"50-50": Fighting Chicago's Crime Trusts.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/393902016-08-11T15:00:12Z2023-11-30T16:48:04ZAbram Winegardner HarrisCaption: "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 ability had been recognized by various institutions of learning, by who the degree of LL.D. had been conferred upon him. Dr. Harris is now in the full tide of his activities, and is proving himself one of the ablest of the long line of presidents of the Northwestern University."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/392702016-08-11T15:00:03Z2023-11-30T16:47:49ZAl CaponeCaption: "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 a soldier in France."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/396242016-08-11T15:00:30Z2023-11-30T16:48:33ZAlex LevinCaption: "Alex Levin, Chairman, Board of Directors. Officers Chicago Joint Board". On photograph: "371 I. P. E. U."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/392752016-08-11T15:00:03Z2023-11-30T16:47:49ZAlphonse Capone and John StegeCaption: "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 night Gangdom banqueted the Big Fellow and the slogan was made "All for Al and Al for All." Text overlay on photograph reads: "What have you got on me Chief?"University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/395062016-08-11T15:00:21Z2023-11-30T16:48:18ZAmbulance loaded with fire victimsFrom 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 latter were carted away. Undertaking establishments both north, south and west of the river threw open their doors."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/395512016-08-11T15:00:25Z2023-11-30T16:48:24ZAmerican Brewing AcademyCaption: "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.)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/396232016-08-11T15:00:30Z2023-11-30T16:48:33ZA. N. FisherCaption: "A. N. Fisher, President, 1920-1921. Officers Chicago Joint Board". On photograph: "371 I. P. E. U."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/394782016-08-11T15:00:19Z2023-11-30T16:48:15ZAnnealing departmentPhotograph is included in section on company's Grand Rapids facility.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/392252016-08-11T14:59:58Z2023-11-30T16:47:43ZAnton J. CermakFrom 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."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/391352016-08-11T14:59:52Z2023-11-30T16:47:32ZArchibald ClybourneCaption: "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.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/391652016-08-11T14:59:55Z2023-11-30T16:47:36ZArmour elevatorCaption: "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 combined capacity of the Chicago elevator warehouses is thirty-one million bushels."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/394962016-08-11T15:00:21Z2023-11-30T16:48:17ZA. R. ParsonsFrom 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 Arbeiter Zeitung.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/396262016-08-11T15:00:30Z2023-11-30T16:48:33ZArrangements CommitteeMay 1922.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/391792016-08-11T14:59:56Z2023-11-30T16:47:38ZArrival of Lincoln's bodyCaption: "Arrival of Lincoln's Body in Chicago (The Hearse Preceded by White-Robed Girls)"University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/394022016-08-11T15:00:13Z2023-11-30T16:48:05ZArthur FarrarFrom 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 to be an enhanced photograph.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/391642016-08-11T14:59:55Z2023-11-30T16:47:36ZArt InstituteCaption: "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 Wednesdays, Saturdays, Sundays and holidays. Schools of art and design are maintained here by the city."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/393762016-08-11T15:00:11Z2023-11-30T16:48:02ZArt Institute of ChicagoCaption: ""Art Institute on Michigan Avenue, facing Adams Street. Courtesy of Art Institute of Chicago""University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/394732016-08-11T15:00:19Z2023-11-30T16:48:14ZAssembling departmentPhotograph is included in section on company's Jersey City facility.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/394622016-08-11T15:00:18Z2023-11-30T16:48:13ZAssembling departmentUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/394352016-08-11T15:00:16Z2023-11-30T16:48:09ZAuditorium BuildingFrom 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."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/394952016-08-11T15:00:20Z2023-11-30T16:48:17ZAugust SpiesFrom 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 and order of the community."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/392992016-08-11T15:00:05Z2023-11-30T16:47:51ZAugust SpiesFrontispiece. Handwritten below, "With Compliments A. Spies."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/392222016-08-11T14:59:58Z2023-11-30T16:47:42ZAuto pumping engineCaption: "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 of hose, and deliver water in less than 36 seconds."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/393372016-08-11T15:00:08Z2023-11-30T16:47:57ZBank vaults on main floorFrom 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 walls on every side, in order that watchmen may completely encircle it in their rounds at night. Attack from the outside by way of the floor or ceiling is equally out of the question, the surrounding brick walls being four feet thick in the basement, three feet thick on the banking floor, and two feet thick above that... If ever criminals should conceive a scheme for attempting to reach the interior of these vaults, they would find their keenest ingenuity baffled."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/395312016-08-11T15:00:23Z2023-11-30T16:48:08ZBarney (Christian P.) BertscheCaption: "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."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/391932016-08-11T14:59:56Z2023-11-30T16:47:39ZBarney Oldfield, Jerry Eller, C. A. CoeyCaption: "Barney Oldfield, Jerry Eller and C. A. Coey in Mr. Coey's racing car."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/390972016-08-11T14:59:49Z2023-11-30T16:47:27ZBattle-Cry of FreedomCaption: "Cover of "The Battle-Cry of Freedom" (Written by George F. Root at the Time of Lincoln's Second Call for TroopsUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/396602016-08-11T15:00:33Z2023-11-30T16:48:37ZBenjamin F. FergusonFrom 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 income of the Ferguson sculpture fund. The only completed monument thus far erected is the Ferguson Fountain of the Great Lakes, south of the Art Institute. "University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/391402016-08-11T14:59:53Z2023-11-30T16:47:33ZBenjamin F. TaylorCaption: "Benjamin F. Taylor (Chicago's Poet of the War Period)"University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/392372016-08-11T14:59:59Z2023-11-30T16:47:45ZBernard J. MullaneyBernard J. Mullaney was secretary to the mayor.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/396022016-08-11T15:00:29Z2023-11-30T16:48:30ZBessie AbramowitzCaption: "Bessie Abramowitz (Mrs. Sidney Hillman)". On photograph: "371 I. P. E. U."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/395472016-08-11T15:00:24Z2023-11-30T16:48:23ZBion J. ArnoldFrom 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 Transportation, ... worked out the details of an adequate unified service for the entire city and furnished a practical solution of the vexing physical problems."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/394712016-08-11T15:00:19Z2023-11-30T16:48:14ZBird's-eye viewPhotograph is included in section on company's Jersey City facility.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/395222016-08-11T15:00:22Z2023-11-30T16:48:20ZBird's eye view of Grant ParkCaption: "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."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/394532016-08-11T15:00:17Z2023-11-30T16:48:12ZBlackstone branch interiorFrom 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 constructed of white granite in the pure Ionic-Grecian style, modeled after the famous Erectheum at Athens. The interior embodies a book-room on the left, with a capacity of 20,000 volumes, a reading room on the right, and a small reading room for young people at the rear, all opening from a rotunda that is finished in pure Italian statuary marble, and is surmounted by a dome embellished with decorative panels by Oliver Dannatt Grover."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/394562016-08-11T15:00:17Z2023-11-30T16:48:12ZBoard of directorsCaption: "Board of Directors: E. L. Adreon, John P. Ahrens, Jesse A. Baldwin, E. B. Leigh, F. P. Hays, C. S. Gleed, Albert Blair".University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/395982016-08-11T15:00:28Z2023-11-30T16:48:29ZBohemian Coat Makers Local 6Caption: "Officers and Executive Board Members Bohemian Coat Makers Local 6". On photograph: "371 I. P. E. U."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/394702016-08-11T15:00:18Z2023-11-30T16:48:14ZBolster departmentCaption: "Bolster Dep't Hydraulic Press Multiple Punch". Photograph is included in section on company's Detroit facility.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/394692016-08-11T15:00:18Z2023-11-30T16:48:14ZBolt and rivet departmentPhotograph is included in section on company's Detroit facility.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library