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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... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Ringling Brothers circus wagons, horses, and tents, with the Chicago skyline in the background. |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Gasoline Alley Garage. Presumably the inspiration for Frank O. King's cartoon Gasoline Alley. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | The Armour Company's Chicago factory, showing the employment office doors. The caption indicates that the police were present because the Packinghouse Work... |
| Date: | 04 1975 |
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| Description: | "Irwin Silber, an editor of the 'Guardian'," a radical weekly newspaper, speaking to an anti-war rally in a square near a large sculpture. |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Panoramic view of downtown Chicago before the fire of 1871. The photograph was taken from the South side of the Chicago River, looking Northeast. The Rush ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Chicago Union Stock Yards. |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of pedestrians and automobiles passing by the flagship Marshall Field's department store (Marshall Field & Co.), built in 1892 by Da... |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a crowd of pedestrians passing the Marshall Field's department store (Marshall Field & Co.), built in 1892 by Daniel H. Burnham a... |
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| Description: | Group portrait in front of a large stone building with arches of members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 880 holding giant pennie... |
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| Description: | Members of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 880 march across a plaza in protest. Some are carrying signs shaped like giant pennies. Disab... |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Label submitted to the State of Wisconsin for trademark registration. "Loewen Bräu (Lion Brew) Beer, United States Brewing Co." The label features the silh... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View across street towards a boy and girl standing on the street corner across from the granite mansion built for Conrad Seipp at 3300 South Michigan Avenu... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View across streets towards the tower with a steeply pitched roof which anchors the southeast corner of the Conrad Seipp mansion at 3300 South Michigan Ave... |
| Date: | 01 28 1918 |
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| Description: | Streams of water from fire hoses are trained into the upper windows of a storefront which is encased in thick ice. A written description of this photograph... |
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| Description: | View across street towards a five story building. On the street level are the Lake Street Station Chicago Post Office, on the left, next to Harry's Sandwic... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Members of a band posing outdoors for a group portrait with their musical instruments. The band members are wearing coats and hats, and a few are wearing m... |
| Date: | 1985 |
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| Description: | A woman is standing on a sidewalk holding something in her hands that she is showing to two other women. Caption reads: "Getting cards signed in [Represent... |
| Date: | 1985 |
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| Description: | A man is standing and posing outdoors. He is wearing a small pin that reads "Stop the Bombing in El Salvador CISPES." Caption reads: "Martin Wolke, organiz... |
| Date: | 1985 |
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| Description: | A man is standing outside a building holding a clipboard in one hand, and a pen in his other hand. A person is standing in front of him writing on a piece ... |
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