Date: | 1915 |
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Description: | Women sitting in the library of International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department. |
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: | 1850 |
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Description: | Portrait of Mary Ann Hall McCormick (1780-1853), wife of Robert McCormick (1780-1846). Mary Ann and Robert McCormick were the parents of inventor and indus... |
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Description: | Factory workers reading in the Deering Works Club library. A librarian appears to be checking books in and out to a line of employees. |
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Description: | Office(?) workers reading in the library at the Deering Works Club. In the background the librarian (seated at desk) appears to be checking books in and ou... |
Date: | 1905 |
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Description: | Man lounging against a full bookcase in an office area at McCormick Works in Chicago. A second man can just be seen behind the bookcase. A large dark room ... |
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Description: | Ornately decorated library at 675 Rush Street. The house was built for Cyrus Hall McCormick and his family in 1879. After McCormick's death in 1884, the ho... |
Date: | 1927 |
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Description: | A woman sitting at a kitchen table wearing a visor, leaning over a book while a lit oil lamp is nearby. Also on the table are a newspaper, additional books... |
Date: | 08 1927 |
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Description: | A woman moves a curtain out of the way of an electrical fan sitting on a desk. Near the fan are some books, a floral arrangement, and a notepad. Outdoors, ... |
Date: | 1914 |
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Description: | A group of men and women surround O.H. Benson as he gives a canning demonstration in the office of County Superintendent Tobin. Canning equipment stands on... |
Date: | 1902 |
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Description: | Chairs and tables are arranged throughout a room, possibly a factory lounge or break room, probably in the McCormick Reaper Works. A spinning wheel is in t... |
Date: | 11 29 1944 |
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Description: | Back and front covers and inside menu listing, of a die cut three-quarter view of a cloth-bound book with an inset title plate, and a guest list with a few... |
Date: | 1949 |
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Description: | Irna Phillips is seated, and drawing a floor plan. On a table next to her are framed photographs of her children. |
Date: | 1925 |
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Description: | This page from a stock book from Ferdinand Hotz's Chicago based jewelry business shows his inventory of gemstones, his costs, and the clients who bought th... |
Date: | 05 02 1902 |
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Description: | Front cover and first two pages of the menu and program for a dinner honoring newspaperman Opie Read. There is a tipped-in drawing of Read on the cover, dr... |
Date: | 1880 |
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Description: | A full-length, seated cabinet card portrait of Catherine Orb Seipp wearing an elaborately detailed dress of heavy material. She is also wearing a bracelet,... |
Date: | 1930 |
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Description: | A room off the entrance hall of the Edward Petersen home at 1322 Astor Street in Chicago's Gold Coast area has a barrel vaulted ceiling and bookcases along... |
Date: | 05 05 1905 |
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Description: | Interior view, from another room or hallway, of the meeting room. Chairs, tables, and what is probably a newspaper rack are in the room. There is a spittoo... |
Date: | 1880 |
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Description: | Full-length portrait of Emma Huck Seipp (1855-1891). She is standing and wearing a floor length sleeveless gown and opera length gloves. Emma was the first... |
Date: | 1933 |
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Description: | Embossed image of the Hall of Science at the Century of Progress International Exposition (the 1933-34 Chicago World's Fair) decorates the leather cover of... |
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