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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait of an African American woman posing in front of a wooden bench and a velvet curtained backdrop. She is wearing a long dress emb... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Library of the McCormick family home at 675 Rush Street. The home was built for Cyrus Hall McCormick and his wife Nettie Fowler in 1873. |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Chairs and tables are arranged throughout a room, possibly a factory lounge or break room, probably in the McCormick Reaper Works. A spinning wheel is in t... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | A man stands beside a bookcase in a factory office, possibly in the bookkeeping or accounting department, at the McCormick Works. Several desks and cabinet... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Portrait of William Rice Odell sitting at his desk. A curtain on a window in the background bears the International Harvester Company logo. Odell graduated... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Three women standing in a factory cafeteria, probably at the McCormick Reaper Works. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A young Ferdinand Hotz sits behind a large desk in his Chicago office. There is an art print and a framed collection of moths and butterflies on the wall b... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | A full-length, seated cabinet card portrait of Catherine Orb Seipp wearing an elaborately detailed dress of heavy material. She is also wearing a bracelet,... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | A standing full-length cabinet card portrait of William Conrad Seipp, the oldest son of Chicago brewer Conrad Seipp. He rests his left forearm on an ornate... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Six prominent German American brewers pose outdoors, seated around a table, for a portrait labeled "The Poterhouse [sic] Club." Well-dressed in suits and h... |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | William O. Petersen, in a costume (Tracht) of Bavarian or Tyrolean style, poses seated on a bench with his arm around a small dog. He is wearing short lede... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A room off the entrance hall of the Edward Petersen home at 1322 Astor Street in Chicago's Gold Coast area has a barrel vaulted ceiling and bookcases along... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the dining room in the McCormick Works Club House. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the dining room in the McCormick Works Club House. A waiter stands near the door to the kitchen in the background. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the lounge of the McCormick Works Club House. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Landing with railing and bench at a stairway at the McCormick Works Club House. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the bottom of the stairway at the McCormick Works Club House. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the windows designed for the Keck-Gottschalk apartment building. The windows are angled open and the sun is shining through the exterior V... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the game room at the McCormick Works Club House. Tables and chairs are set up throughout the room. Shades on the windows are drawn. Numero... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Interior view of lecture room. Chairs are in rows along the walls. There are chairs on a raised platform at the back of the room just in front of windows w... |
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