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| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of the Ferris Wheel at the Columbian Exposition at night. A full moon can be seen to the right of the wheel. Text at right: "Wanderings Among t... |
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| Description: | Composite paste-up intended to represent "Old Abe," eagle mascot of the Eighth Wisconsin Regiment in the Civil War with his bearer. At the Northwest Sanita... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Young children playing with a toy wagon. An older boy is pulling a young girl sitting in a chair in a wagon, while another boy is pushing from behind. The ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Three boys and one girl playing outside Sunnyside School with a tricycle, toy wagon, and a twisted iron chair. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Girls turning rope for a young boy to skip outside the Sunnyside School in Cook County. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Stereograph over rooftops towards the Ferris wheel at the Chicago World's Fair. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Stereograph through a Ferris wheel at the Chicago World's Fair. The sensation of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago was the Ferris wheel, the... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of elevated view of the midway of the Chicago World's Fair from the Ferris wheel. |
| Date: | 05 03 1892 |
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| Description: | Tree planting ceremony on the Wooded Island during construction of the Columbian Exposition in Jackson Park. Standing to the left of the tree wrapped with ... |
| Date: | 08 1931 |
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| Description: | An infant wearing a diaper standing and holding onto the rails of a playpen in the corner of a room. A lamp and an upholstered chair are nearby. Toy beads ... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Children joining hands while playing in an alleyway between brick buildings in an area of tenement housing. A line of laundry suspended over the alley is h... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | View of the canal area of the Columbian Exposition grounds looking north from near the front of the Machinery building (at left). The South canal is in the... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Ben Bergor, a Madison area magician (standing third from the left), with a group of Chicago area magicians. Identified individuals are (seated, left to rig... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | The Wisconsin Building at the Chicago World's Fair (Columbian Exposition). |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Color illustration of the grounds and buildings of the 1893 World's Fair or Columbian Exposition. |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Wisconsin State Building in Jackson Park at the World's Columbian Exposition, with a three-quarter view of the building and people stroll... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of replicas of Columbus' ships the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria sailing into dock at Chicago's Jackson Park. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | View of a large, stone residence with the first Ferris Wheel in the distance. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Caption below the illustration reads, "ON A CHICAGO BEACH in 1922 policewomen, patrolling the sands on behalf of morality, confront three offenders." Two p... |
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