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The obituary newspaper article for Kenneth Sawyer Goodman. It discusses his military service and the details of his passing.

Portrait photograph of Jane Addams seated at desk, holding pen.

Medium: 4 x 5 in.
Reproduction Number: HABS ILL,16-CHIG,56--3
Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html)
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Title: 1. Historic American Buildings Survey Harold Allen, Photographer June 1964 NORTH AND WEST (FRONT) SIDES - Kehilath Anshe Ma'ariv Synagogue, 3301 South Indiana Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, IL
Medium: 4 x 5 in.
Reproduction Number: HABS…

Lake Forest College Photo Collection-Lily Reid Holt Chapel-Interior

Lake Forest College Photo Collection-Lily Reid Holt Chapel-Cornerstone (1899)

Cover of Prize Homes. From the title page: "The book includes 92 houses, complete with floor plans elevations, including the twenty-four prize winners in full color and sixty-eight other excellent designs submitted in the Chicago Tribune's $24,000…

This is an 1880's photo of 1741 W Wrightwood in the Lincoln Park Neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. Note the wooden sidewalk, dirt road and lack of buildings surrounding the edifice.

This is a black and white image of a train car as it moves over the Lake Street Bridge in Chicago, 1924.

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 contemporary photograph of the Essanay Studios building in Chicago.

Glass slide advertising a showing of the 1917 Essanay film Max Wants a Divorce.

Old Cook County Hospital opened in 1866 at 18th and Arnold Streets, Chicago, Illinois, circa 1900.

Boys and horse drinking from the Drake Fountain in front of City Hall, Chicago, Illinois, 1887.

Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir apparent to the Austro-Hungarian empire, and his wife Sophie Chotek, are assassinated by Serb nationalist, 19 year-old Gavrilo Princip, an agent of the Serbia-based hypernationalist group the Black Hand. A secret…

The German government extends Austria-Hungary a "blank check" in the event of war between Austria-Hungary and Serbia. German and Austro-Hungarian statesmen recognize that war between Austria-Hungary and Serbia is inevitable, and that the war is…

Emperor Franz Joseph authorizes harsh terms against Serbia with the expectation that the Serbs will reject them, thereby clearing the way for war.

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