Unemployed men queued outside a depression soup kitchen opened in Chicago by Al Capone and the storefront sign reads "Free Soup Coffee & Doughnuts for the Unemployed."
Image of Drs. Neely and Hanley vaccinating building department clerks against smallpox in a room in the County Building in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois.
A close-up black and white photograph of three men on a porch stoop. They are obviously homeless, desolate, and probably drinking alcohol in the image.
Patients at the Chicago State Hospital walking outdoors on a snow-covered path, Chicago, Illinois, December 10, 1910. The Chicago State Hospital (also called the Dunning Mental Institute) was located at West Irving Park Road and North Narragansett…
Sample title card from "Max Wants a Divorce," designed by Rachel Tenuta '17, reading: "Chicago Nov. 15, 1916. Dear Mister Linder, Your Uncle passed away and left you $3 million, under one condition, that you remain a bachelor. In that case, and only…
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…
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