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James Ryan, Maclay Hoyne and Frank Johnston, Jr.
Image | 1916 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "James Ryan (central figure), alias 'Prof. Charles T. Crane' of the clairvoyant trust, cleaned up $60,000 in seven months through detective bureau connivance. At right and left are Hoyne and his chief assistant, Frank Johnston, Jr."
Chicago Public Library
Image | 1911 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "The Chicago Public Library". From text: "The Chicago Public Library is a free public institution, established under the Illinois library law of 1872, and maintained by the city as part of its public educational system. It derives its revenue from an annual library tax of approximately four-tenths of a mill, and is governed by a Board of Directors of nine members ...
Proposed South Water Street improvements
Image | 1919 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "View of proposed South Water Street and river front improvements by E. H. Bennett, consultant architect. From the collection of the Chicago Plan Commission." From text: "To complete Chicago's great central district, the greatest in the world, South Water Street must be reclaimed for all the people. South Water Street can be made into the second finest thoroughfa...
Gateway to North Michigan Avenue
Image | 1919 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Suggested treatment of gateway to North Michigan Avenue, looking north. Drawing by A. N. Rebori."
Teachers' College
Image | 1912 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "The Teachers' College: Sixty-eighth Street and Stewart Avenue. By courtesy of the Board of Education."
Dismissal at noon
Image | 1912 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "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.)
Wendell Phillips High School
Image | 1912 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Wendell Phillips High School: Thirty-ninth Street and Prairie Avenue. By courtesy of the Board of Education".
Reading room
Image | 1911 | Picture ChicagoFrom text: "The Reading Room for current periodicals is one of the largest rooms in the building occupying the entire north front on the fourth floor. Nearly twelve hundred publications are regularly received and kept on file here, comprising all the popular American and English periodicals, reviews, and weeklies, a selection of the best publications in German, French, and ...
Davis Square branch reading room
Image | 1911 | Picture ChicagoFrom 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...
Charles H. Wacker
Image | 1919 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Charles H. Wacker, Chairman Chicago Plan Commission."
North plaza of new Michigan Avenue
Image | 1919 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Looking south across north plaza, showing possibilities of developing North Michigan Avenue. Drawing by Vernon Howe Bailey."
Residence of John C. Bryan
Image | 1910 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Residence of Dr. John C. Bryan. 5536 Sheridan Road, Edgewater."
Old West Market Hall
Image | 1912 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Old West Market Hall: On the site of the present Haymarket Square."
Frances E. Willard
Image | 1912 | Picture ChicagoFrom text: "It is safe to say that no name among the residents of Evanston looms larger on the pages of the country's history than that of Frances Elizabeth Willard. … In 1874, Miss Willard was elected president of the Illinois Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and gave her whole time to the work. In 1883, she projected the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union, of...
Residence of Mrs. Potter Palmer
Image | 1912 | Picture ChicagoFrom text: "Potter Palmer of Chicago was a member of the Board of Directors of the World's Columbian Exposition, and his wife, Mrs. Bertha M. Honore Palmer, was president of the Board of Lady Managers."
Paul Schulze
Image | 1912 | Picture ChicagoPaul Schulze was president of the Schulze Baking Company of Chicago.
Stiles Burton
Image | 1912 | Picture ChicagoFrom text: "A resident of Chicago ere the city was incorporated and identified with its commercial interests until after the great fire, when the work of rebuilding the city was substantially completed, Stiles Burton has been termed 'one of the men most honored and esteemed among the early citizens of Chicago.' His portraits hangs in the gallery of the Chicago Historic Soci...
Wabash Avenue
Image | 1912 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "In the Shopping District--Wabash Avenue." View is looking northwest up Wabash Avenue from Monroe Street.
Mary A. Bickerdyke
Image | 1910 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Mrs. Mary A. (""Mother"") Bickerdyke (Organizer of Military Hospitals and Friend of the Soldiers) By Courtesy of the Chicago Historical Society". Mary Bickerdyke was a volunteer nurse and hospital administrator for Union soldiers during the Civil War. From text: "I cannot refrain from going outside the local record to say a word about Mrs. Mary A. Bickerdyke, o...
Sunnyside, roadhouse of Lake View
Image | 1910 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Sunnyside, the "High-Toned" Road-House of Lake View (Located at North Clark Street and Montrose Boulevard) By Courtesy of the Chicago Historical Society"
Barney Oldfield, Jerry Eller, C. A. Coey
Image | 1912 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Barney Oldfield, Jerry Eller and C. A. Coey in Mr. Coey's racing car."
Motor squad wagon
Image | 1919 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Used for all emergency services in the saving of life and property. Responds to all fires with all regular fire equipment. Carries pulmotor, acetylene cutting device and all heavy tools for extricating persons in a dangerous position, at large fires and railroad accidents, etc. It is considered by the Department as one of the important advances of increased effi...
Central group of Ferguson Fountain
Image | 1913 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "The Ferguson Fountain of the Great Lakes: Central Group."
The death of Marquette
Image | 1916 | Picture ChicagoBook 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...
Residence of Charles Bosch
Image | 1910 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Residence of Mr. Charles Bosch View of East Front from Birchwood Beach"
Residence of C. C. Linthicum
Image | 1910 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Residence of Mr. C. C. Linthicum 1315 Forest Ave., Evanston, Ill."
Residence of Henry W. Schultz
Image | 1910 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Residence of Mr. Henry W. Schultz Kenilworth, Ill." Designed by architect George W. Maher and completed in 1909.
Residence of Franklin Rudolph
Image | 1910 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Residence of Mr. Franklin Rudolph 745 Sheridan Road, Winnetka, Ill."
Residence of Harry Rubens
Image | 1910 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Residence of Mr. Harry Rubens Glencoe, Ill."
Residence of Callistus S. Ennis
Image | 1910 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Residence of Mr. Callistus S. Ennis 1437 Pratt Ave., Rogers Park"
Hon. Thomas B. Bryan
Image | 1910 | Picture Chicago
Charles A. Comiskey at opening of new park
Image | 1910 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Comiskey at the opening of his $1,000,000 baseball park in 1910."
Hoyne and Lavin questioning Perry
Image | 1916 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "State's Attorney Maclay Hoyne, (at left) and Capt. Patrick J. Lavin (at right) questioning James Perry, one of the 'Teddy' Webb gang of auto bandits that, in 1912, terrorized the city."
William McJunkin
Image | 1919 | Picture ChicagoWilliam D. McJunkin was an advertising executive. He wrote the chapter entitled "Chicago Calls," in Chicago's reconstruction plan.
Soldiers' Memorial in St. James's Church
Image | 1910 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "The Soldiers' Memorial in St. James's Episcopal Church (Uninjured by the Fire and Forming Part of the Reconstructed Edifice, at Cass and Huron Streets)". Note: Cass Street is earlier name for Wabash Avenue.
Rev. William W. Everts
Image | 1910 | Picture ChicagoFrom text: "The Rev. W. W. Everts, D.D., of the First Baptist Church, was another who could always be depended on to strike straight from the shoulder. He left Louisville, Ky., in 1859, because of his anti-slavery views. Although his congregation was loyal to him, he felt he must have a freer field than a Southern pulpit afforded
Rev. Robert H. Clarkson
Image | 1910 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Rev. Robert H. Clarkson By Courtesy of 'The Churchman'. From text: "Deserving of a grateful remembrance as are all these, I feel like giving first place to Dr. Robert H. Clarkson, of St. James's Episcopal and later the revered Missionary Bishop of Nebraska and Dakota … there was never any question where Robert H. Clarkson stood. His voice from the first was a tr...
Maj. Gen. Geo. Bell, Jr. and staff
Image | 1933 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Maj. Gen. Geo. Bell, Jr., and Staff on May 25, 1919"
Carter H. Harrison
Image | 1913 | Picture ChicagoFrontispiece. Harrison was mayor of Chicago from 1897–1905, and 1911–1915.
C. A. Coey's School of Motoring
Image | 1912 | Picture ChicagoBook cover: "C. A. Coey's School of Motoring 1424-26 Michigan Ave. Chicago"

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