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Suburb of Auburn Park
Marquette Cross
James Ryan, Maclay Hoyne and Frank Johnston, Jr.
Milwaukee Avenue State Bank
Looking north on State from Madison St.
Entrance to Stock Yards
Chicago Public Library
Business office in Tacoma Building
Samuel Kapper
Leo Krzycki
John E. Williams
Louis Schultz
Educational meeting and concert
The Textile Room
American Brewing Academy
Dickens Avenue home
Two house on Lill Avenue
John Fitzpatrick
Jane Addams
Sewing Machine Adjusters Local 272
Polish Coat Makers Local 38
Teachers' College
Group of revenue assessors
Dismissal at noon
Wendell Phillips High School
View west on Adams Street
Ruins of Chicago Postoffice
Reading room
Davis Square branch reading room
Brake beam department
Shipping department
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Residence of John C. Bryan
View north on LaSalle Street
Frances E. Willard
Residence of Mrs. Potter Palmer
Paul Schulze
Eddie Foy
Wabash Avenue
Jim Colosimo and Dale Winter
Suburb of Auburn Park
Image | 1893 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "[Engraved for The Standard Guide Company.] Suburb of Auburn Park--Wright, North from 77th St. [See "Outlying Chicago."]". From text: ""Well understanding that no locality can be uniformly improved unless under the sole control of a single person or a syndicate, Eggleston, Mallette & Brownell also bought Auburn Park. Then they immediately commenced to carry out...
Marquette Cross
Image | 1920 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "The Marquette Cross."
James Ryan, Maclay Hoyne and Frank Johnston, Jr.
Image | 1916 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "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."
Milwaukee Avenue State Bank
Image | 1893 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "[Engraved for The Standard Guide Company.] The Milwaukee Avenue State Bank. [See "Banks, State and Private."]". From text: "Location Milwaukee Avenue and Carpenter street. … Successor to the banking house of Paul O. Stensland & Co., the leading financial institution of the northwest section of the city. The former bank had built up a very large business with ...
Looking north on State from Madison St.
Image | 1893 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "[Engraved for The Standard Guide Company.] Looking north on State From Madison St. [See "Guide."]". From text: "[W]e will endeavor to do the great retail avenue of Chicago, or at least a portion of it, before the day closes. This thoroughfare ... is one of the grandest commercial arteries in the world. By looking up "State Street" in the Index, you will learn ...
Entrance to Stock Yards
Image | 1891 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "Entrance to Stock Yards." From text: "No reference to Chicago of a statistical nature, even of the most infinitesimal character, would be complete without passing reference at least to the Union Stock Yards and the part they play in the world's economy. ... The yards were considered quite isolated at the time, but the city has grown so rapidly they have been anne...
Chicago Public Library
Image | 1911 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "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 ...
Business office in Tacoma Building
Image | 1893 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "[Engraved for The Standard Guide Company.] Business Office, New York Mutual Life Insurance Co., Tacoma Bldg [Charles H. Ferguson, Agent.]". From text: ""Elsewhere is presented in this volume an engraving of the interior of the counting room of Charles H. Ferguson, general agent of the New York Mutual Life Insurance Company for the State of Illinois. The offices...
Samuel Kapper
Image | 1922 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "Samuel Kapper, Killed in 1915 Strike". From text: "On October 26th Samuel Kapper, one of the strikers, was shot and killed and a large number of others wounded in a riot at Harrison and Halsted streets. More than ten thousand striking garment workers paid their tribute at the funeral to this hero of the strike." On photograph: "371 I. P. E. U."
Leo Krzycki
Image | 1922 |
Picture Chicago
One of four individuals depicted above caption: "National Organizers, Chicago Campaign, 1919". On photograph: "371 I. P. E. U."
John E. Williams
Image | 1922 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "John E. Williams, Chairman, Board of Arbitration, 1912-1919". On photograph: "371 I. P. E. U."
Louis Schultz
Image | 1922 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "Louis Schultz, Vice President. Officers Chicago Joint Board". On photograph: "371 I. P. E. U."
Educational meeting and concert
Image | 1921 |
Picture Chicago
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."
The Textile Room
Image |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "The Textile Room." From text: "The [Hull House Labor] Museum was opened in November, 1900, and from the first, five departments were planned, though, owing to lack of space and equipment, only that of the textiles was developed to any extent during the first winter. In one room were placed various appliances for spinning and weaving, largely collected from the vi...
American Brewing Academy
Image | 1901 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "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.)
Dickens Avenue home
Image | 1963 |
Picture Chicago
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."
Two house on Lill Avenue
Image | 1963 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "The simple wooden cottage at left--with its unusual second-story porch--contrasts with a brick two-flat building on Lill Street."
John Fitzpatrick
Image | 1922 |
Picture Chicago
From text: "Mr. John Fitzpatrick, President of the Chicago Federation of Labor, agreed to help them and from that time on devoted his entire time to their cause."
Jane Addams
Image | 1922 |
Picture Chicago
From text: "The value of the services of such women during the strike as Ellen Gates Starr, Mrs. Raymond Robins, Jane Addams, Amelia Sears, Mrs. Lillie, Mrs. John Furie, Grace Abbott, and others, was incalculable. Without almost a single important exception the sympathy of the public leaned to the side of the workers and had its effect in weakening and undermining the moral...
Sewing Machine Adjusters Local 272
Image | 1922 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "Officers and Executive Board Members Sewing Machine Adjusters Local 272".
Polish Coat Makers Local 38
Image | 1922 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "Officers and Executive Board Members Polish Coat Makers Local 38". On photograph: "371 I. P. E. U."
Teachers' College
Image | 1912 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "The Teachers' College: Sixty-eighth Street and Stewart Avenue. By courtesy of the Board of Education."
Group of revenue assessors
Image | 1863 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: ""A. C. Hesing, Martin Kimbell, Fred H. Rolschausen, H. W. Scoville, Reuben Taylor, George Dunlap, John Forsyth, W. R. H. Gray, J. C. Brown, George H. Anderson, Chester L. Root, Peter Page, C. R. Field, William James, C. N. Holden, Bernhard H. Bruns, Andrew Nelson, H. N. Heald, Fred Becker,* Albert W. Weber, Henry N. Stevens, Edward Page, Charles G. Smith, C. B. Sam...
Dismissal at noon
Image | 1912 |
Picture Chicago
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.)
Wendell Phillips High School
Image | 1912 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "Wendell Phillips High School: Thirty-ninth Street and Prairie Avenue. By courtesy of the Board of Education".
View west on Adams Street
Image | 1920 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "The Vista of Adams Street." View is looking west from the Art Institute of Chicago. Pullman Building, at left
Ruins of Chicago Postoffice
Image | 1871 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "Ruins of the interior of the Chicago Postoffice after the Great Fire of 1871. By permission of Chicago Historical Society."
Reading room
Image | 1911 |
Picture Chicago
From 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 Chicago
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...
Brake beam department
Image | 1908 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "Brake Beam Department--North". The Chicago Railway Equipment Company was established in 1887, and in its first twenty years of operation it produced and sold over six million brake beams. (Source: Encyclopedia of Chicago http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/2387.html. ) Photograph is included in section on company's Detroit facility.
Shipping department
Image | 1908 |
Picture Chicago
Photograph is included in section on company's Grand Rapids facility.
Charles H. Wacker
Image | 1919 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "Charles H. Wacker, Chairman Chicago Plan Commission."
Residence of John C. Bryan
Image | 1910 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "Residence of Dr. John C. Bryan. 5536 Sheridan Road, Edgewater."
View north on LaSalle Street
Image | 1920 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "The Wall Street of Chicago." View is looking north up LaSalle Street from West Jackson Blvd.
Frances E. Willard
Image | 1912 |
Picture Chicago
From 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 Chicago
From 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 Chicago
Paul Schulze was president of the Schulze Baking Company of Chicago.
Eddie Foy
Image | 1904 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "Eddie Foy, Leading Actor, who told the audience to go out slowly."
Wabash Avenue
Image | 1912 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "In the Shopping District--Wabash Avenue." View is looking northwest up Wabash Avenue from Monroe Street.
Jim Colosimo and Dale Winter
Image | 1920 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "A rare photograph of "Big" Jim Colosimo and his wife, Dale Winter, taken shortly after their marriage. Note the laced shoes. Colosimo, over-lord of the Chicago underworld for twenty years, engaged Capone as his body guard when Alphonse was only a youngster." From text: "On March 29, 1920, Colosimo divorced his wife, Victoria, and on April 16 he was married to Da...
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