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Vandercook Co.
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I. P. E. U.
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Kaufmann & Fabry Co.
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Williams, True
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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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1911
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1860-1869
7
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1883
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5
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1901-12
3
1902-05
3
1902-09
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1850-1859
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1856
2
1887
2
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2
1894
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1903-01
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1909
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1900
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1910-1919
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1914-02
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1915
1
1915-10-12
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1921-01-13
1
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
Language
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
Galleries & museums
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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15
Hotels
13
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12
Haymarket Square Riot, Chicago, Ill., 1886.
11
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10
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9
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9
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9
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9
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8
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8
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8
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8
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8
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8
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7
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7
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7
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6
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6
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6
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5
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5
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5
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5
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5
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5
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5
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5
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5
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5
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4
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4
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4
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4
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4
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3
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3
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3
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3
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3
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3
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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
Exhibitions
2
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2
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2
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2
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2
Fountains
2
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2
Harbors
2
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2
Interiors
2
Jewelers
2
Lakes & ponds
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
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Comiskey's Chicago team of 1900
Commercial Insurance Company's Building
Compulsory bath
Confederate prisoners at Camp Douglas
Conspiracy meeting
Cook County Hospital
Cooking class
Corner, manufacturing room
Corner of State and Washington
Corner, watch repair room
Court House in 1860
Courtyard of Hull House
Crilly buildings
Crosby's Opera House
Cutters and Trimmers Commission
Daniel Hudson Burnham
Davis Square branch reading room
Dayton Street house doorway
Deacon Philo Carpenter
Deacon William Bross
Dearborn Street
Dearborn Street
Dearborn Street
The death of Marquette
Delivery room
Democratic National Amphitheatre
Dickens and Halsted apartment building
Dickens Avenue home
Dismissal at noon
Dome and Grand Stairway
Dominck Aiello's assassination site
Douglas Club
Draughting department
Dr. Charles Volney Dyer
Dr. N. S. Davis
Early shopping district at Lake and La Salle
Early shopping district at Lake and Wells
Eddie Foy
Educational meeting and concert
Edward F. Dunne
Comiskey's Chicago team of 1900
Image | 1900
Caption: "Comiskey's first American League team in Chicago: pennant-winners in 1900. Upper row, left to right: Fisher, Dillard, Isbell, Denzer, Patterson. Middle row: Brain, Hartman, Padden, Comiskey, Shearon, Sugden, Wood. Lower row: O'Leary, Shugart, Hoy, H. McFarland."
Commercial Insurance Company's Building
Image | 1869
Lettering in illustration reads: "Commercial Insurance Company's Building 160 & 162 Washington St. Chicago." Text reads: "We have become so accustomed to look eastward for successful and reliable insurance companies, that we often overlook those at our own doors, which, in all the essentials of solvency, are the peers of any in the land. Among these the Commercial Insuranc...
Compulsory bath
Image
From text: "Next in order is the bath. This is administered in an open, well-lighted room, 18 x 24 feet, containing eight hot and cold water showers, strong soap, brushes and towels without stint. Should this job be poorly done through laziness, repugnance, unfamiliarity with the task, the officer in charge returns him willy nilly, and should the lodger seem unequal to the...
Confederate prisoners at Camp Douglas
Image | 1910
Caption: "Confederate prisoners at Camp Douglas By Courtesy of the Chicago Historical Society". Camp Douglas opened as a training camp for Union troops in 1861 on the property of Stephen J. Douglas, between 31st and 33rd Streets, and Cottage Grove and present-day Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, and later served as a prisoner of war camp for Confederate soldiers. (Source: E...
Conspiracy meeting
Image | 1889
Caption: "The Conspiracy meeting at 54 West Lake Street. Waller reading Engel's 'plan.'"
Cook County Hospital
Image | 1906
Caption: "The Cook County Hospital, the largest of the public charities of Chicago, occupies twelve acres on West Harrison and Polk streets. The main building is a handsome edifice of red brick with stone trimmings and contains twenty-four wards each devoted to a separate class of disease. Any patient without money is taken at this hospital and receives as good treatment a...
Cooking class
Image | 1912
Caption: "Class in cooking--Normal Practice School. By courtesy of the Board of Education".
Corner, manufacturing room
Image | 1922
Corner of State and Washington
Image | 1906
Caption: "Corner of State and Washington Streets, showing the Marshall Field establishment[.] Marshall Field's retail dry goods store, the largest in the world, is located at the corner of State and Washington streets. The great Field store extends along State Street to the next block. On the corner fronting the pedestrian from almost any angle, hangs a huge clock which a...
Corner, watch repair room
Image | 1922
Court House in 1860
Image | 1910
Caption: "The Court House in 1860 (Nucleus of Business Centre, Political Rallying Place, Highest Point of Observation)"
Courtyard of Hull House
Image | 1920
Caption: "The Courtyard of Hull House."
Crilly buildings
Image | 1963
Caption: "The Crilly buildings--including eight homes and ten apartment houses--lie between North Park, St. Paul, La Salle, and Eugenie, and have been called "the foundation stone of modern Old Town." Developer Daniel F. Crilly built them between 1877 and 1905. ... Below, small but varied in treatment, are back porches of the Crilly Court apartments."
Crosby's Opera House
Image | 1910
Caption: "The Grand Army Reunion of 1868 at Crosby's Opera House Lt.-Gen. Sherman Delivering Address of Welcome (This Building then Ranked as "the Most Imposing Art Temple of the Country")"
Cutters and Trimmers Commission
Image | 1922
Caption: "Cutters and Trimmers Commission, Hart, Schaffner and Marx, James Mullenbach, Chairman". On photograph: "371 I. P. E. U."
Daniel Hudson Burnham
Image | 1899
Caption: "Daniel Hudson Burnham, director of works of World's Columbian Exposition and author of the Chicago Plan. From portrait by Zorn, by permission of Mrs. Burnham."
Davis Square branch reading room
Image | 1911
From text: "The wide distribution of Chicago's population has made it necessary to provide small branch or deposit libraries in the residence districts, thus, in a measure, carrying the benefits of the Library to those who cannot conveniently come to it. These are established at convenient points throughout the city and were formerly housed in rented quarters, frequently in...
Dayton Street house doorway
Image | 1963
Caption: "The entrance to a house on Dayton, above. Doors carved in a fanciful pattern are divided into several nicely proportioned panels."
Deacon Philo Carpenter
Image | 1910
From text: "The Deacon (he was deacon emeritus in his last years) came to Chicago in 1832, and was largely instrumental in organizing the First Presbyterian Church. Later he moved to the West Side, and there joined the Third Church. As an ingrained Abolitionist he attended the Anti-Slavery Convention in Cincinnati in 1850..." Image appears to be an enhanced photograph and...
Deacon William Bross
Image | 1910
From text: "Among somewhat later arrivals (the men of the forties) the Hon. William Bross, ex-Lieutenant-governor and "deacon" extraordinary, easily took first rank, because--well, because he was "Deacon" Bross." William Bross (1813-1890) was a journalist and served as Lieutenant Governor. (Source: Encyclopedia of Chicago.) Image is undated but appears to be from the 1860s.
Dearborn Street
Image | 1875
Caption: "Dearborn Street, south from Monroe".
Dearborn Street
Image | 1906
Caption: "Dearborn Street, the "Sixth Avenue" of Chicago, is one of the city's leading retail business thoroughfares. Here are banks, hotels and cafes in confusing array. It is also noted as a street of outfitters, haberdashers and stores of that type. Finer or handsomer business structures are not to be found on this continent. At one end is Polk Street Depot
Dearborn Street
Image | 1906
Caption: "Dearborn Street, the "Sixth Avenue" of Chicago, is one of the city's leading retail business thoroughfares. Here are banks, hotels and cafes in confusing array. It is also noted as a street of outfitters, haberdashers and stores of that type. Finer or handsomer business structures are not to be found on this continent. At one end is Polk Street Depot
The death of Marquette
Image | 1916
Book frontispiece. Caption from list of illustrations: "The death of Marquette. From drawing for mosaic, Marquette Building, Chicago, by J. A. Holzer." From text: "At the mouth of Pere Marquette River, where the city of Ludington now stands, he died on May 18, 1675. His companions interred his body in accordance with directions Marquette himself had given. The following...
Delivery room
Image | 1911
From text: "The Delivery Room proper, which extends across the entire width of the building, with a length of 134 and a depth of 48 feet, is divided into three parts by a rotunda in the center, surmounted by a beautiful stained-glass dome. Elliptical arches rise from the marble piers at the four corners, and the walls above are elaborately covered with mosaics, into which a...
Democratic National Amphitheatre
Image | 1860-1869
Caption: "Democratic National Amphitheatre Situated on Michigan Avenue, near Twelfth street. Original owned by Chicago Historical Society".
Dickens and Halsted apartment building
Image | 1963
Caption: "Architectural details add interest to many houses in the Sheffield area. On the opposite page is a three-story bay on an apartment building at the corner of Dickens and Halsted."
Dickens Avenue home
Image | 1963
Caption: "Airy fretwork decorates the porch of a Dickens Avenue home, right. Builders used to select trim from mill catalogues. Note the rope molding on top window."
Dismissal at noon
Image | 1912
Caption: "Dismissal at noon--Jirka School. By courtesy of the Board of Education" Jirka Public Day-School for the Deaf was located on 17th between Loomis and Laflin Sts. (Source: The Volta review, Volume 15, Issue 2.)
Dome and Grand Stairway
Image | 1912
Caption: "Dome and grand stairway of Art Institute, completed in 1912. Courtesy of Art Institute of Chicago". From text: "There are now in 1911, fifty public exhibition galleries, of which twenty-seven are skylighted, and plans are being made to extend the building eastward by bridging the Illinois Central railroad tracks with skylighted galleries and building new museum h...
Dominck Aiello's assassination site
Image | 1930
Caption: "Dominck Aiello, minor member of the North Side gang. (Lower photograph) The last public appearance of Dominck Aiello."
Douglas Club
Image | 1888
From text: "Organized in April, 1885, the Douglas Club has its quarters at 3518 Ellis Avenue."
Draughting department
Image | 1908
Draughting department for Chicago location of the Chicago Railway Equipment Company.
Dr. Charles Volney Dyer
Image | 1910
From text: "Other notables … who arrived in the thirties … [were] ... Dr. C. V. Dyer …" Charles Volney Dyer (1808-1878) was a physician and abolitionist. (Source: Encyclopedia of Chicago.) Photograph is undated but appears to be from the 1860s.
Dr. N. S. Davis
Image | 1910
Image appears to be an enhanced photograph. Image is undated, but appears to have been taken in the 1880s.
Early shopping district at Lake and La Salle
Image | 1910
Caption: "The Early Shopping District Intersection of Lake and La Salle Streets By Courtesy of the Chicago Historical Society"
Early shopping district at Lake and Wells
Image | 1910
Caption: "The Early Shopping District Intersection of Lake and Wells Streets By Courtesy of the Chicago Historical Society"
Eddie Foy
Image | 1904
Caption: "Eddie Foy, Leading Actor, who told the audience to go out slowly."
Educational meeting and concert
Image | 1921
Caption: "Reception to Sidney Hillman International President A.C.W. of A. On His Return from Europe at the Educational Meeting and Concert Nov. 18, 1921 by the Chicago Joint Board of Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Ashland Auditorium". On photograph: "371 I. P. E. U."
Edward F. Dunne
Image | 1907
From text: "Then came the Mayoralty campaign of 1905. An open letter to the people of Chicago by Judge Tuley practically made Edward F. Dunne the nominee of the Democratic party on a no-franchise Immediate Municipal Ownership platform. … As a result of a heated campaign in which traction was the principal issue, Dunne was elected ... Mayor Dunne sought with singleness of p...
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