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Barman — Manny

Date: 1932
Description: Manny bartending at The Strollers.
Drawing

Barman — Jack

Date: 1932
Description: Jack bartending at The Dizzy Club.
Drawing

Barman — Frank

Date: 1932
Description: Frank bartending at the Old Fashioned Club.
Photograph

Governor Schmedeman in Wheelchair

Date: 10 26 1934
Description: Governor Albert Schmedeman sitting in a wheelchair smoking a cigarette, following left leg amputation.
Photograph

Hotel Loraine Bar

Date: 08 23 1934
Description: Art deco style bar in the Hotel Loraine at 119-125 West Washington Avenue, with an art deco cigarette machine. The bartender is standing at his post behind...
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Park Hotel Circular Bar

Date: 04 26 1934
Description: Circular bar at the Park Hotel, 22 S. Carroll Street, with fireplace and cigarette vending machine.
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Stolen Cigarettes at Simon Brothers Warehouse

Date: 03 16 1932
Description: Cases of cigarettes recovered from a robbery were returned to the Simon Brothers Warehouse, 901 E. Washington Avenue.
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Lie Detector Test

Date: 12 04 1931
Description: Technicians administer a lie detector test at District Attorney Fred Risser's office to be used in the James Corcoran poisoning case.
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Joseph Conlin Signing a Contract

Date: 05 12 1931
Description: Joseph Conlin, tenor, signing a contract to perform at the Parkway Theater. Dr. William G. Beecroft shown standing is sponsoring Mr. Conlin's appearance.
Photograph

Wilford Rogers and Leslie Straus

Date: 02 05 1931
Description: Wilford Rogers, 20, and Leslie Straus, 21, both of Mendota, Illinois. The two are confessed murderers of Albion postmaster, Frank H. Kelling, standing on t...
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Lymon Schley in Hospital

Date: 10 27 1930
Description: Lymon Schley, cottage fire burn victim, smoking a cigarette in the hospital.
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Radio Stars with Mechanical Cow at "A Century of Progress"

Date: 03 24 1933
Description: Radio stars Jack Pearl and Cliff Hal posing with a mechanical cow and milker in the International Harvester exhibit at the "A Century of Progress" world's ...
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Pabst Theatre

Date: 1935
Description: Exterior of theatre on corner of Wells and Water Streets. There is a billboard for Kools (cigarettes) on the side. Streetcar tracks and parked cars are in ...
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Man Pouring Tivoli Beer

Date: 1935
Description: A man is sitting at a table holding a cigarette in one hand and pouring a bottle of Tivoli pilsner beer into a glass with the other. Original caption reads...
Photograph

Clyde Cockershaw's Bar

Date: 1938
Description: A McCormick-Deering ten can cooler sits underneath a counter next to the soda faucets at Clyde Cockershaw's Bar. In the background are advertisements for a...
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A.J. Brandehoff

Date: 1938
Description: Gilbert John Brandehoff is leaning over to open a bottle of Diehl beer with a bottle opener that is mounted on a McCormick-Deering cooler. A woman is stand...
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Stacking Sheaves of Grain

Date: 1930
Description: A man is standing in a field and stacks sheaves of grain. He is wearing a hat and is smoking a cigarette.
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City of Quincy Truck

Date: 10 31 1938
Description: A man smoking a cigarette shovels what appears to be gravel onto the back of an International D-30 truck marked "City of Quincy" from a train car.
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Achille Starace, "The Sly"

Date: 04 1938
Description: Achille Starace, Secretary of the Italian Fascist Party. American journalist Cecil Brown was able to get close to the man, labeled "Starace, the Sly" in hi...
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Mowrer-Cole Wedding

Date: 04 28 1939
Description: The wedding of journalist Richard Scott Mowrer of the "Chicago Daily News" (hat in hand) and Rosemund Emily Cole in Rome, Italy. Mowrer had just been expel...

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