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McCormick Rush Street Home Exterior

Date: 1879
Description: The facade of the McCormick family residence at 675 Rush Street, which takes up an entire block between Erie and Huron Streets. Cyrus Hall McCormick, Sr. h...
Poster

Gammon and Deering Advertising Poster

Date: 1876
Description: Color chromolithograph illustration advertising poster for the Marsh Harvester, produced by Gammon and Deering Company. Printed by Charles Shober & Co., Ch...
Poster

The Burning of Chicago

Date: 1871
Description: Bird's-eye view of the Chicago fire of October 8, 1871. The hand-colored lithograph was published by Currier and Ives.
Book or Pamphlet

Plano Manufacturing Company Catalog

Date: 1897
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the Plano Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of grain binders, mowers, headers, reapers, and hay rakes. The cover fea...
Book or Pamphlet

Plano Harvesting Machinery Catalog

Date: 1890
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for harvesting machinery made by the Plano Manufacturing Company. Features a color illustration of a woman on a stage crown...
Photograph

McCormick Reaper Works "Rest Room"

Date: 1899
Description: Two women sitting in the "rest room" at the McCormick Reaper Works. A piano is in the background.
Map or Atlas

The City of Chicago

Date: 1892
Description: Bird's-eye view of Chicago, with ships in the Lake Michigan harbor.
Photograph

Surrender of Albert Parsons

Date: 06 21 1886
Description: A photograph of a painting depicting the surrender of Albert Parsons to Cook County Illinois authories. Parsons had been arrested in connection with a conf...
Photograph

Union Soldiers at Camp Douglas

Date: 1862
Description: Large group of Union soldiers in formation by a barracks at Camp Douglas in Chicago, Illinois.
Photograph

World's Columbian Exposition

Date: 1893
Description: A cyanotype photograph of a man in oriental dress on the Midway of the World's Columbian Exposition. He stands behind a gate; a sign warns, "No Admittance ...
Photograph

World's Fair Transportation Center

Date: 1893
Description: Elevated view of the Illinois Central World's Fair Transportation Center at Van Buren Street. Several pedestrians cross a bridge leading to trains and lake...
Photograph

People Around Crucifixion, Mt. Scopus in Distance #1714

Date: 1893
Description: A depiction of Jerusalem on the day of Jesus' crucifixion. A busy landscape of people, animals, and shelters. Mount Scopus is in the distance. Text at righ...
Photograph

Mount of Olives, Tower of Antonia and Temple #1703

Date: 1893
Description: A depiction of Jerusalem on the day of Jesus' crucifixion. In the foreground is a crowd of people, animals, and tents. There is also a group of solders wi...
Photograph

Tower of Hippicus and Phasaelis #1707

Date: 1893
Description: A depiction of the Tower of Phasealis on the day of Jesus' crucifixion.
Photograph

The Old Well, En Royel #1708

Date: 1893
Description: A depiction of Jerusalem on the day of Jesus' crucifixion. This is a well in En-Royel.
Photograph

Road to Joppa and Camp of Bedouin Arabs #1709

Date: 1893
Description: A depiction of Jerusalem on the day of Jesus' crucifixion. This is the road to Joppa and a camp of Bedouin Arabs. Text at right: "Wanderings Among the Wond...
Photograph

Garden of Joseph of Arimathea and Damascus Road #1712

Date: 1893
Description: A replication of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Depicted is the Damascus Road and the garden of Joseph of Arimathea. Joseph of Arimathea was a wealthy ma...
Photograph

Garden of Joseph of Arimathea and Tomb #1713

Date: 1893
Description: A replication of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Depicted is the garden of Joseph of Arimathea and the tomb where Jesus is believed to be the buried. A Ro...
Photograph

Wisconsin Building

Date: 1893
Description: The Wisconsin Building at the Chicago World's Fair (Columbian Exposition).
Photograph

Ferris Wheel

Date: 1897
Description: View of a large, stone residence with the first Ferris Wheel in the distance.

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