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| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Three workers with barrels of drinks inside a refreshment booth decorated with stars and stripes. The men were preparing to serve drinks at an Internationa... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Highly decorated, perhaps for a parade, a International Model E truck owned by Barcal & Barta is parked outside the company storefront. A sign on the side ... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | A view of the World's Columbian Exposition mounted on a cardboard album page, looking east from the Transportation Building. On the right are the Mines Bui... |
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| Description: | View of a large, ornate organ inside a chapel at the University of Chicago. Below the organ pipes are pews and flags. The University was founded by John D.... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | View of the canal area of the Columbian Exposition grounds looking north from near the front of the Machinery building (at left). The South canal is in the... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the business district and skyline. The Wrigley Building and clock tower stands in the foreground; it was built in 1920 by William Wrigley ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Entrance of an office building of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company at 212 Market Street. The street around the building is full of rubble and appea... |
| Date: | 06 1880 |
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| Description: | Illustration of the Interstate Exposition Building,the site of the Republican National Convention. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View across streets towards the tower with a steeply pitched roof which anchors the southeast corner of the Conrad Seipp mansion at 3300 South Michigan Ave... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View from across street towards a worker shoveling a sidewalk in front of the Potter Palmer mansion on North Lake Shore Drive. The three-story granite face... |
| Date: | 12 1899 |
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| Description: | Interior view of a church with large Christmas trees on either side of the Neo-Gothic altar. Between the trees is an arched sign proclaiming, in German, "G... |
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| Description: | The Crystal House was Keck and Keck Project #183 in 1934. This project was done for the second year of the Chicago World's Fair, named "The Century of Prog... |
| Date: | 08 01 1927 |
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| Description: | The truck is decorated with plants and flowers, and the sign on the side reads: "International Motor Trucks," at the Am Foundrymen's 31st Annual Convention... |
| Date: | 08 01 1927 |
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| Description: | The truck is decorated with plants and flowers, and the sign on the side reads: "International Motor Trucks," at the Am Foundrymen's 31st Annual Convention... |
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