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Poster for the Chicago Department of Health, showing a flying disc "Toxoid" preventing a lightning bolt from striking a child. The poster reads: "Diphtheria strikes unprotected children / Protect your child with toxoid--Toxoid prevents diptheria :…

Illustrated postcard of Cook County Institution at Dunning, IL (later to be called the Dunning Mental Hospital and then the Chicago State Hospital)

Police officers measure the exit of the Iroquois Theater after the 1903 fire. Taken fromChicago's Awful Theater Horror, by the Survivors and Rescuers, with an introduction by Bishop Fallows. (Memorial Publishing Co.,D. B. McCurdy, 1904)

Boys learning carpentry during a class at an open air summer school in Chicago, as open air schools were believed to help prevent and combat the spread of tuberculosis among children.

A photograph of Chicago skyline from the Tribune Tower with the Wrigley building in the foreground, showing the heavy smog that blanketed the city in the mornings.

An illustrative map of the city of Chicago before the Great Fire, the First City before the Great Conflagration of October 8th-10th, 1871.

An aerial photograph of the city of Chicago from 1900 or 1901, titled "The Heart of Chicago".

Titled, "Join the Parade: We had Polio Vaccine, get Your Polio Shots now.", the illustrated poster encourages polio vaccination among infants and children especially.

An illustration of Briggs House (a hotel in Chicago) being raised, as the city planned to lift the buildings up by a few feet in order to install new foundations and municipal sewage systems

An illustration of a throat, mouth and tongue to show signs of Diphtheria, with a caption reading "Plate XI. Note the extension of the false membrane to the soft palate."

Image of an alley behind building at 1922
South Halsted Street in Chicago in 1946

Bird's-eye view of Lake Shore Drive, taken from the Drake Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, 1927.