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Children selling candy apples and other goods near the area of Maxwell Street in Chicago, Illinois, in 1906.

A streetcar travels on 12th Street, east from Halsted Street, Chicago, Illinois, in 1906.

Sheet music to "The Last Day of the Fair" by Frank Swain

Sheet music for "Echoes from the White City," by Edward Holst.

Sheet music to "An Afternoon in Midway Plaisance" by Gustav Luders

Sheet music for "The World's Fair, or, Chicago Dudes' March" by Adam Geibel

Sheet music for "Columbus, or World's Fair Grand March," by Frank Drayton

Sheet music for "Chicago World's Exposition Grand March" by Victor Vogel

Sheet music "Columbian Polka" by Lillian Beatrice Mathewson, with an inscription in cursive reading

Sheet music for "Midway Plaisance" by Dennis Mackin and W.T. Jefferson

Sheet music for "The Song of the Ferris Wheel" by George Schleiffarth.

Sheet music for "The Ferris Wheel Waltz and Polka," with lithographic image by Orcutt Co., Chicago

Cover image and audio recording of "The Ferris Wheel March and Two Step, by Samuel Lapin. Cover image includes a photo by J.B. Quirk Cut Co. of decorated ferris wheels and an unattributed photo of Lapin

Sheet music for "Santa Lucia," "Finiculi-Finicula," and "L’addio a Napoli" ("Adieu to Naples")

Sheet music for "Reja Dorada. (The Golden Gate.) Polka"

Sheet music for "The Viking March," by H. C. Verner

Sheet music, "Chicago Day Waltz," by George Valisi

Sheet music for "The Streets of Cairo, or, The Poor Little Country Maid," by James Thornton

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…

A lithograph of the Sauganash Hotel as seen between 1830 and 1833

A contemporary photograph of the Essanay Studios building in Chicago.