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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."
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Shoeshine boys on the steps of a building, Chicago, Illinois, circa 1930-1979.
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Crowd in front of a storefront with the sign Bank Real Estate during the race riots in Chicago, Illinois, 1919.
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Boys and horse drinking from the Drake Fountain in front of City Hall, Chicago, Illinois, 1887.
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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.
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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.
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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…
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Old Cook County Hospital opened in 1866 at 18th and Arnold Streets, Chicago, Illinois, circa 1900.
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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…
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Glass slide advertising a showing of the 1917 Essanay film Max Wants a Divorce.
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A contemporary photograph of the Essanay Studios building in Chicago.
Sauganash Hotel Juxtapose.jpg

A lithograph of the Sauganash Hotel as seen between 1830 and 1833
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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…
Streets of Cairo Or, The Poor Little Country Maid .pdf

Sheet music for "The Streets of Cairo, or, The Poor Little Country Maid," by James Thornton
chicago day waltz.pdf

Sheet music, "Chicago Day Waltz," by George Valisi
The Viking March .pdf

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

Sheet music for "Reja Dorada. (The Golden Gate.) Polka"
Souvenir of the World's Columbian Exposition (arr. Valisi) copy.pdf

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

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
Ferris Wheel Souvenir (Waltz-Polka) (George Valisi) .pdf

Sheet music for "The Ferris Wheel Waltz and Polka," with lithographic image by Orcutt Co., Chicago
Song of the Ferris Wheel (George Schleiffarth).pdf

Sheet music for "The Song of the Ferris Wheel" by George Schleiffarth.
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Sheet music for "Midway Plaisance" by Dennis Mackin and W.T. Jefferson
Columbian Polka.pdf

Sheet music "Columbian Polka" by Lillian Beatrice Mathewson, with an inscription in cursive reading
Chicago World's Exposition Grand March - Vogel-4.pdf

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

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