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| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Ferris wheel and midway at the Columbian Exposition, viewed from Hotel Epworth. |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Street scene of Michigan Avenue and Randolph Street in Chicago. The Allerton Hotel is in the background. |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Chicago's Wacker Drive at Clark Street, looking north. Buildings, water towers and railroad boxcars are along the Chicago River waterfront, as well as a Co... |
| Date: | 06 26 1944 |
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| Description: | Five Wisconsin delegates to the Republican Party National Convention held in Chicago, Illinois. Photographed at the Hotel Bismark left to right: Assemblyma... |
| Date: | 04 26 1944 |
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| Description: | Five Wisconsin delegates to the Republican Party National Convention held in Chicago, Illinois. Photographed at the Hotel Bismark left to right: Arthur L. ... |
| Date: | 06 26 1944 |
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| Description: | Two Wisconsin delegates to Republican Party National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. William Campbell, Oshkosh, left, and Arthur Prehn, Wausau, right. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Panoramic bird's-eye view of the heart of the Loop. Labeled sites include: Insurance Exchange, Continental and Commercial National Bank, Post Office, Dear... |
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| Description: | Two drawings of The National Republican Convention Headquarters in Chicago, Illinois, at the Grand Pacific Hotel. The Blaine Headquarters. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Automobiles driving down Main Street, which is lined on either side with storefronts and buildings. On the left side of the street is Hotel LaFayette. On t... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | A man wearing a suit and hat is checking in and signing a piece of paper at a hotel registry desk. A suitcase is sitting at his feet and a hotel employee i... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | A man sitting in an armchair with his feet propped on a bed, is reading an International sales-engineering bulletin and smoking a pipe. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A copy of an older illustration of the Sauganash Tavern, located on Lake Street in Chicago near Market. It was "built in 1831 by Mark Beaubien, who claimed... |
| Date: | 11 21 1950 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the annual convention of the Congress of Industrial Organizations at the Palmer House hotel. |
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| Description: | View along shoreline of the hotel with wrap-around porches on the shore of Fox Lake. There are canoes near a pier, and small outbuildings among trees. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View down cobblestone street in the business district numerous cars, pedestrians, and storefronts. Cars are parked at an angle on both sides of the street. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Numerous horse-drawn carriages parked outside the C.B. & Q. Depot. The Columbia Hotel is in the background. Text on top of the building reads: "W. J. Sharp... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Business signs read: "North Shore Hotel," "Elite Cafe," "Northwestern Book Store," and "Pink Shop." On right side of street, the Hoyburn theater has writte... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View across street toward the Columbia Hotel. Two women stand in front of the hotel under the roofed entrance. The side of the hotel has a painted advertis... |
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| Description: | The lobby of the Hotel Emmerson. In the back of the room are two men standing at the front desk. Opened in 1926 as the New Mt. Vernon Hotel, the building q... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | An automobile resting in a bank of snow along a road near commercial buildings, probably on Michigan Avenue in Chicago. Signs on the buildings read: "Edelw... |
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