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Image of Zion Congregation, c. 1900.

1880-1949
Founded in 1880, Zeh, Scherzer & Co. produced a wide range of products, including an exclusive series for Geo. Borgeldt & Co. (advertised in the 1921 image below). In 1949, they began using the name and backmark Scherzer & Co. or Scherzer…

The full-page view of the Youth's Companion's program for the "Official School Celebration of Columbus Day," published September 8, 1892, and scheduled for October 21, 1892.

Young Lords painting murals and setting up furniture inside their community center at 834 Armitage Ave.

Unidentified Young Lords at the Puerto Rican Heritage Festival on Armitage Avenue, August 23, 1969.

Photograph of Francis O'Neill and his wife Anna when they were young

Photograph of head and shoulders of Anna O'Neill (young)

Full body photograph of young Anna O'Neill (Francis O'Neill's wife)

1890-1922?
Frank Yergin sold his Paris, Illinois drugstore in 1890 with the intention of moving to Chicago to focus on manufacturing his own products. An advertisement for his Russian Oil is shown below; tin 1916, his wife is listed as the…

Yellowware bowl at the Charnley-Perksy House

Wrecked automobile lying upside-down in a ravine beneath a bridge with a crowd of people standing on a hill in the background

Statue of the Republic in 1893

Photograph of the Dedication Ceremonies in the Manufactures Building, October 21, 1892, from Rand McNally's “Official Guide to the World’s Columbian Exposition”

Workers leave the Pullman Palace Car Works, 1893. This picture appeared in a promotional booklet celebrating the paternalistic labor policies of George Pullman. A year later Pullman's workers were at the center of a national strike of rail workers…

Addams shares with her friend Emily Balch her disappointment at not having won the Nobel Peace Prize herself.

Clip from an illustrated digital video based on the Goodman Theatre's radio production of The Wonder Hat, 1952

Clip from an illustrated digital video based on the Goodman Theatre's radio production ofThe Wonder Hat, 1952

Clip from an illustrated digital video based on the Goodman Theatre's radio production of The Wonder Hat, 1952

Opening picture from an illustrated digital video based on the Goodman Theatre's radio production of The Wonder Hat, 1952

Clip from an illustrated digital video based on the Goodman Theatre's radio production of The Wonder Hat, 1952

Clip from an illustrated digital video based on the Goodman Theatre's radio production of The Wonder Hat, 1952

Clip from an illustrated digital video based on the Goodman Theatre's radio production of The Wonder Hat, 1952

Clip from an illustrated digital video based on the Goodman Theatre's radio production of The Wonder Hat, 1952

Still from an illustrated digital video based on the Goodman Theatre's radio production of The Wonder Hat, 1952

Clip from an illustrated digital video based on the Goodman Theatre's radio production of The Wonder Hat, 1952

Clip from an illustrated digital video based on the Goodman Theatre's radio production of The Wonder Hat, 1952