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Section, engraving room
Image | 1922 | Picture ChicagoAugust 1922.
Lillian Russell
Image | 1892 | Picture ChicagoFrontispiece
Henry Horner
Image | 1933 | Picture ChicagoFrom text: "Illinois' Governor, Henry Horner[.] Following more than eighteen years as judge of Probate Court, Henry Horner was elevated to the position of the Governor of the State of Illinois on January 9, 1933, at the state capitol of Springfield. The Governor was born in Chicago seven years after the Great Fire ... "
Auto pumping engine
Image | 1919 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "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 ...
Corner, watch repair room
Image | 1922 | Picture ChicagoAugust 1922.
Entrance to Forest Home
Image | 1893 | Picture Chicagoin fact their equal in that respect can not be found around Chicago. No spot could be more advantageously situated than the location of Forest Home, it being fifty-six feet above the level of Lake Michigan and the crown of the water-shed between the Atlantic and the Gulf. The water running from the roof of a house on the grounds on one side finds the St. Lawrence, while the ...
Wacker Monument in Graceland Cemetery
Image | 1893 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Graceland.--Monument of Frederick and Catharine Wacker." From text: "Before the close of the year 1893 the number of the silent inhabitants of the necropolis Graceland will have reached 60,000. This cemetery is justly famed as one of the finest among Chicago's cities of the dead, and occupies a similar rank here as does Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn, Spring Grove ...
Calumet Club
Image | 1888 | Picture ChicagoBuilding was located at Michigan Avenue and Twentieth Street.
Chicago Club
Image | 1888 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Chicago Club, Monroe St." From text: "After the fire the present building was erected on Monroe Street, just opposite the Palmer House."
Chicago, before the fire
Image | 1933 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Chicago, as It Was Before the Fire"
Rufus C. Dawes
Image | 1933 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Rufus C. Dawes President A Century of Progress"
German Building at Jackson Park
Image | 1912 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "ackson Park--The German Building (Refectory) and the Beach." The German Building was erected for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition and was one of the few structures to remain behind and became a permanent feature in Jackson Park after the fair concluded.
Illinois Central Station
Image | 1912 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Grant Park, the Lake, Michigan Boulevard and Central Station of the Illinois Central R. R."
Residence of Seymour J. Thurber
Image | 1910 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Residence of Mr. Seymour J. Thurber. 1444 Estes Ave., Rogers Park."
Trade Board meeting
Image | 1922 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Trade Board of the Wholesale Clothiers, Wholesale Tailors, Cut Trim and Make Association, etc., B. M. Squires, Impartial Chairman". On photograph: "371 I. P. E. U."
West Side Auditorium meeting
Image | 1921 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Meeting of all of Joint Board Delegates, Local Executives and Shop Chairmen. West Side Auditorium, Jan. 13, 1921. Presented to Captains and Lieutenants of the $1,000,000 Lockout Fund Chicago Joint Board Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America." On photograph: "371 I. P. E. U."
Dickens and Halsted apartment building
Image | 1963 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "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."
Porch figures on Dewes House
Image | 1963 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Stone figures support the porch of a home built in 1896 for Chicago brewer Francis J. Dewes. Located on Wrightwood and Hampden Court, it now houses the Swedish Engineers Society."
Edwin Burritt Smith
Image | 1907 | Picture ChicagoFrom text: "The City was fortunate in its choice of attorneys to represent it in the litigation. Edgar B. Tolman, Corporation Counsel, was a lawyer of marked ability. Associated with him as special traction counsel were Edwin Burritt Smith and John C. Mathis."
Walter L. Fisher
Image | 1907 | Picture ChicagoFrom text: " … and Walter L. Fisher, special traction counsel, who reduced to concrete form the suggestions of former years and in conjunction with Mayor Dunne and the Local Transportation Committee negotiated with the Companies a working agreement to be in force pending such purchase, probably the best in traction history anywhere."
Chicago Commons Woman's Club
Image | 1901 | Picture ChicagoFrom text: "[T]he Chicago Commons Woman's Club … now numbers about 125 women, and includes the representatives of twelve or fifteen nationalities and many different sects. Its Tuesday afternoon meetings, (our flash-light view of the latest, gives some idea of their popularity and pleasure), is an event each week in the lives of its members and the house."
Colonial loom
Image | 1902 | Picture ChicagoFrom text: "The old Colonial loom of which the museum contains two specimens, was fast in comparison with the more primitive looms, but slow when compared with the youngest of all, the power loom."
Grant Park adjoining Central Station
Image | 1930 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Grant Park, Adjoining Central Station, Showing the Buckingham Fountain and Other New Improvements Under Way." From text: "Buckingham Fountain, in Grant Park at the foot of Congress Street, is the largest and one of the most beautiful fountains in the world. It has several varieties of displays and is illuminated at night. Closed during the winter months."
Executive Offices, Chicago Joint Board
Image | 1922 | Picture ChicagoFrank Rosenblum Directing".
Bohemian Coat Makers Local 6
Image | 1922 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Officers and Executive Board Members Bohemian Coat Makers Local 6". On photograph: "371 I. P. E. U."
Bessie Abramowitz
Image | 1922 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Bessie Abramowitz (Mrs. Sidney Hillman)". On photograph: "371 I. P. E. U."
Joseph Goldman
Image | 1922 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Joseph Goldman, President. Officers Chicago Joint Board". On photograph: "371 I. P. E. U."
Levi D. Boone
Image | 1910 | Picture ChicagoFrom text: "Other notables of the "Old Guard" who arrived in the thirties, and were for the most part in hale and hearty middle life, were … Levi D. Boone (a stalwart Know-nothing)…" Levi D. Boone (1808-1882) was a doctor, captain in the Black Hawk War, and mayor of Chicago (1855-1856). (Source: Encyclopedia of Chicago.) Image is undated but appears to be from the 1860s.
Thomas Hoyne
Image | 1910 | Picture ChicagoFrom text: "Other notables of the "Old Guard"" who arrived in the thirties, and were for the most part in hale and hearty middle life, were … Thomas Hoyne, …." Thomas Hoyne (1817-1883) was a justice of the peace and mayor of Chicago (1876). (Source: Encyclopedia of Chicago.) Image is undated but appears to be from the 1860s.
Dr. Charles Volney Dyer
Image | 1910 | Picture ChicagoFrom 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.
Judge Mark Skinner
Image | 1910 | Picture ChicagoFrom text: "Other notables … who arrived in the thirties … [were] Judge Mark Skinner …" Mark Skinner (1813-1887) was a Cook County judge and city attorney. (Source: Encyclopedia of Chicago.) Photo is undated but appears to be from the 1860s.
View north from Court House dome
Image | 1910 | Picture ChicagoLake Michigan is in the distance.
Chicago in the Sixties
Image | 1910 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Bird's-eye view of Chicago in the Sixties"
Call for the Haymarket Meeting
Image | 1889 | Picture ChicagoText in English and German. Partial transcription: "Attention Workingmen! Great mass-meeting to-night, at 7.30 o'clock at the Haymarket, Randolph St., bet. Desplaines and Halstead. Achtung Arbeiter! Grosse Massen-Versammlung heute Abend, halb 8 Uhr, auf dem Heumarkt, Randolph-Strasse. zwifchen Desplaines u. Halsted-Str."
Revenge! Workingmen, to arms!!!
Image | 1889 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "The famous "Revenge" circular." German title: "Rache! Rache! Arbeiter, zu den Waffen!"
Corner of State and Washington
Image | 1906 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "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 an e...
Hon. Joseph E. Gary
Image | 1889 | Picture ChicagoJudge Gary presided over the trial of the eight anarchists for their alleged involvement in the Haymarket Riot. (Wikipedia entry on Joseph Gary)
Siegel, Cooper & Company
Image | 1906 | Picture Chicagouniversally known as "The Big Store." Almost every commodity of commerce ranging from soap to diamonds is sold over the counters of this immense business institution. It requires a corps of nearly two thousand employees to attend to the wants of customers. Siegel, Cooper & Company have stores also in New York and Boston." Building was designed by William Le Baron Jenney.
John V. Farwell
Image | 1910 | Picture Chicagoand that one was John V. Farwell, to whom all in any manner benefited by the evangelist owe a debt of gratitude."
Rev. Dwight L. Moody
Image | 1910 | Picture ChicagoDwight L. Moody was an evangelist and revivalist, and founded the Chicago (Moody) Bible Institute, ""one of the most successful world centers for missionary training."" Source: Encyclopedia of Chicago.

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