Date: | 1924 |
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Description: | Interior of WMAQ Radio Station with Chief Engineer Donald Weller standing. |
Date: | 1870 |
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Description: | Group portrait of workers, a young boy and a dog outside the Schmidt and Glade Brewery posing with tools and barrels. |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | Customers gathered outside the J. Cunradi Drugstore. A sign above the awning identifies the store as a Deutsche Apotheke, or German apothecary. |
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Description: | Early Apothecary Shop exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry. |
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Description: | Museum exhibit for the Chicago Historical Society depicting what a typical early Chicago drugstore looked like. |
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Description: | The screw passenger excursion vessel, "Christopher Columbus," leaving Chicago. Skyline of Chicago is in background with one building with sign reading Armo... |
Date: | 1859 |
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Description: | Lithograph from Frank Leslie's Illustrated News of the sidewheel passenger, Lady Elgin, at her wharf in Chicago, Illinois in 1860. From a pho... |
Date: | 07 1928 |
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Description: | The screw passenger cruise vessel, "South American," underway. |
Date: | 1912 |
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Description: | The passenger excursion vessel, "Christopher Columbus," entering harbor. Caption reads: "Steamship 'Christopher Columbus' (Whaleback), Entering Harbor at ... |
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Description: | A Kotex feminine product advertisement from early in the 20th century. |
Date: | 07 25 1967 |
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Description: | Chicago White Sox pitcher, Don McMahon, signs autographs for fans before a game. |
Date: | 1902 |
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Description: | Medical students dissect a cadaver at the Chicago College of Physicians and Surgeons, University of Illinois. Surnames on the students' aprons include: Cor... |
Date: | 1894 |
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Description: | Students surround a partially-dissected cadaver at the Chicago College of Dental Surgery. |
Date: | 1902 |
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Description: | Dr. Nicholas Senn demonstrates surgical techniques at Rush Medical College. |
Date: | 11 02 1948 |
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Description: | WENR in Chicago broadcasts the first live national television presidential election returns when Truman upset Dewey. |
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Description: | Elevated view of Ringling Brothers circus wagons, horses, and tents, with the Chicago skyline in the background. |
Date: | 1908 |
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Description: | Portrait of William Howard Taft, used in his 1908 presidential election campaign. Caption reads: "William Howard Taft, Our Next President." |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Cadavers are laid out on gurneys in a sky-lit anatomy lab at Rush Medical College. |
Date: | 1922 |
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Description: | Ada Nye (Nemshoff) listening to a crystal radio set at the home of her aunt and uncle Ben and Ida Tovrog. Her cousin Lou Tovrog built the radio set. |
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