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McCormick Rush Street Residence Interior

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Description: Interior view of the McCormick family residence on Rush Street, showing a piano in the left-hand foreground. The house was built for Cyrus Hall McCormick a...
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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.
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McCormick Works Club House Stage

Date: 1931
Description: Rows of seats lead up to a arched stage outfitted with a piano and chairs at the McCormick Works Club House theater. The IHC logo is embroidered on the sta...
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McCormick Works Banquet Hall

Date: 1929
Description: A hall, possibly at the McCormick Works Club House, decorated with vases of flowers, long tables laid with place settings, and chairs set up for a banquet ...
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Prize Winner Seated at Piano

Date: 1919
Description: Portrait of a young woman, the prize winner of the Cook County school-home project in music, sitting at a piano.
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Lesson at Mount Prospect High School

Date: 1917
Description: View from the back of a classroom towards a teacher holding an ear of corn while standing near a chalkboard which reads: "Mt. Prospect Twp. High School, Mt...
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Young Girl Seated Before a Piano

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Description: A young girl in formal dress sits before a piano. A framed certificate from the American Conservatory of Music hangs on the wall behind the piano. The Amer...
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Historical Pageant

Date: 1925
Description: Two girls in costume sitting at the feet of Mary Turner Carriel, who is sitting on a raised dais in a chair dressed in a fur-trimmed cape, crowned Mother Q...
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Interior of George Fred Keck Designed Home

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Description: Interior view of the living room of a George Fred Keck designed home. A woman is relaxing in a chair with a cat in her lap, and her dog lies on the floor n...
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Interior of Chapel

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Description: View from back of room of the interior of the chapel at Rockford College. There is a piano on the right, in front of the stage. Folding chairs are set up i...
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Professor Hood of Rockford College

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Description: Professor Hood, head of the music department at Rockford College, leaning on a piano.
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Dr. Otto L. Schmidt

Date: 10 06 1918
Description: Dr. Otto L. Schmidt delivers a speech from a platform in front of a stone monument on which is inscribed the text of Abraham Lincoln's Farewell Address to ...
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Music Room in the McCormick Works Club House

Date: 1900
Description: Interior view of the music room. There is a piano with a piano stool against the wall on the left. Two rocking chairs, two chairs and a desk are gathered a...
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Lecture Hall in the McCormick Works Club House

Date: 1900
Description: View of lecture hall with chairs along the left wall, a piano in the corner, and more chairs on a raised platform in front of windows at the back of the ro...
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Reading Room in the McCormick Works Club House

Date: 1907
Description: Interior view of the reading room at the club house. There is a table with chairs in front of a fireplace. There is a piano in the corner.
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The Boseler Residence

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Description: Arthur Boseler House, Keck and Keck Project #507. Project date 1954. This photograph is taken in the wood paneled living room. The brick fireplace is to th...
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The DeCoster Residence

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Description: The Cyrus C. DeCoster house was designed by the architectural firm Keck and Keck as Project #827 in 1972. This is a photograph of the living room in the De...
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Auditorium at McCormick Works

Date: 07 11 1910
Description: View of an auditorium with a stage. There is a mural painting at the back of the stage, and a piano with a stool is set up on the stage. Chairs are set up ...
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Employee Lounge

Date: 08 08 1912
Description: Employee lounge in the McCormick Works Club House. There is a piano on the left, a clock in the corner, and tables and chairs.
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Employee Lounge at McCormick Works Club House

Date: 08 08 1912
Description: Employee lounge with piano in the background. A lounge chair is against a wall in the foreground.

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