tag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:/itemsItems2023-11-30T16:48:36Ztag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/396452016-08-11T15:00:32Z2023-11-30T16:48:35ZCharles A. Comiskey at opening of new parkCaption: "Comiskey at the opening of his $1,000,000 baseball park in 1910."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/394402016-08-11T15:00:16Z2023-11-30T16:48:10ZWeir & Craig Mfg. Co. buildingWriting on the side of building, in image: "Machine shop & brass foundry. Plumbers. Steam & gas fitters--Supplies. Weir & Craig Mfg. Company. Iron foundery." From text: "It is only reasonable that in Chicago, which is the center of so many packing houses, there should be a manufactory of packing house machinery, and a firm which makes a speciality of this is the Weir & Craig Manufacturing Co., at 2421 to 2439 Wallace Street, on the corner of Twenty-fourth place."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/396492016-08-11T15:00:32Z2023-11-30T16:48:36ZCharles A. Comiskey and A. G. SpaldingCaption: "Charles A. Comiskey (left) and A. G. Spalding snapped together for the first and only time. This meeting took place at Comiskey Park just before the famous White Sox-Giants world tour."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/396562016-08-11T15:00:33Z2023-11-30T16:48:36ZWhite Sox team of 1917Caption: "This is the White Sox team of 1917, champions of the American League and winners over the New York Giants for the world's title. In the center and forefront is Manager Rowland. Behind him to the right stands Kid Gleason, then coach, now manager. With the exception of Dick Kerr and a number of utility players and late-comers, the group includes every member of the 1919 team--the combination that the Old Roman has pronounced the greatest he has ever owned or managed. In front are those old mainstays, Claude Williams, Joe Jackson, Chic Gandill, Ray Schajk, Eddie Collins, Eddie Cicotte, Nemo Leibold and Buck Weaver, who have done so much to keep the white hose spotless. The inserts, reading from left to right, are: Harry Grabiner, secretaryUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library