Exhibition Index of American Design.
Poster for WPA exhibition of "Index of American Design" at the Chicago Historical Society. Date handwritten on verso: 12/30/41. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress). Posters of t... More
This week the big store Siegel-Cooper Co. celebrate their first annive...
Advertising poster showing exterior view of the Siegel-Cooper Co. store at night, illuminated by many lights, draped with banners and flags, and a crowd of shoppers both inside and outside the store. At the far... More
Illinois - The anarchist-labor troubles in Chicago The police charging...
Two page spread showing police charging rioters on May 4th in Haymarket Square, Chicago, and bust portraits of seven policemen. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, May 15, 1886, p. 200-201.
An old black and white photo of a man helping a woman. Office of War I...
Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Edward Walsh, Chicago Americans, Head and Shoulders Portrait
Photograph shows Big Ed (Edward Augustine) Walsh, pitcher for the Chicago White Sox, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, in baseball uniform, with sweater on his right shoulder. J155391 U.S. Copyright Of... More
Negro boy in empty lot which is his playground, Chicago, Illinois
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Children in front of grocery store, Chicago, Illinois
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Chicago world's fair. Guide to the Egyptian temple of Luksor, (Thebes....
Page Order: Center Span Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 18, Folder 37c.
[Passenger terminal, Chicago and Northwestern Ry.]
Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
The Pittsburgh Courier is widely read in the Negro section of Chicago,...
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Visit the Brookfield Zoo free Thursday, Saturday, Sunday
Poster for the Brookfield Zoo announcing days when entrance to the Zoo is free, showing a polar bear. Hand-written on verso: 10/13/36. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress) Design... More
Open Air School #1 and #2 - On roof of Mary Crane Nursery
Children seated at desks, wearing hooded coats, Chicago, Illinois. No. 118. Goldsberry Collection of open-air school photographs.
Cubs vs. White Sox, City Championship series, Chicago, Oct. 9, '09, So...
J133233 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Geo. R. Lawrence Co.; October 16, 1909; DLC/PP-1909:43800. Copyright claimant's address: Chicago, New York. No. 9-3563.A.
The Columbian Parade. Oct. 20th, 1892. Forming of parade on lake front...
Spectators lined up along street; buildings and street lights decorated with flags. Copyright deposit. Title transcribed from item. Forms part of: John C.H. Grabill collection.
Sign outside of church in the Black Belt, Chicago, Illinois
Public domain image of a historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Map showing the burnt district in Chicago : published for the benefit ...
Oriented with North to right. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
[World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago. Southwest(?) view over Manufa...
In album, p. 7. Public domain photograph of a historical landmark building in Germany, architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The sausage department, Armour's great packing house, Chicago, U.S.A.
Men and boys stuffing sausage skins at two tables. 2358y1 U.S. Copyright Office. Title also in Spanish.
Interior of Manufactures Building, at the World's Columbian Exposition...
Photograph shows interior of large exhibition building with variety of items on display. Copyright 1893 by C. D. Arnold.
The World's Fair, East [i.e. west] entrance to Manufacturer's Building
World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Ill. 42196Y U.S. Copyright Office. Copyrighted by Souvenir Photo Co. No. 36.
[Fisheries at World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893, with three ...
Copyright by C.D. Arnold. A.W. Pentland, collector. In album, p. 74.
National Democratic convention No. 2.
Photograph shows an overview of the hall with hundreds of attendees at the National Democratic convention, Chicago, Ill. Photo by Whipple & Co., c1896.
All elevated trains in Chicago stop at the Chicago Rock Island and Pac...
C² 29397 U.S. Copyright Office Shows Rock Island ticket offices and stations, cable and electric street car system, and elevated system in the city. Title in Copyright record, v. 15, 1897: Birdseye view of port... More
Uncle Sam is expanding And so is E.E. Strauss & Co.'s business in high...
Advertising poster showing Uncle Sam straddling the globe, one foot on the Philippines and the other on Puerto Rico, as a man announces through a fog horn that "E.E.S. & Co's clothes are good clothes" from the ... More
A Walk in Lincoln Park, Chicago
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[Lily pond, Washington Park, Chicago, Ill.]
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Montgomery Ward & Co. building, Chicago
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[Alabaster lamps, vestibule, stairs, Chicago & North Western Railway s...
Public domain photograph of stairs, steps, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Mary E. McDowell, University of Chicago Settlement, Stock-Yards Distri...
Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Three-quarter length portrait of Mary E. McDowell, seated, facing camera, in ornately carved chair, with book in lap. Caption on cropped version of same ima... More
[Douglas Park, Chicago, Ill.] - Public domain image. Dry plate negativ...
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[The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.]
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[Railroad station (Chicago & North Western) and Mead Cycle Company, Ch...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a historical building, landmark architecture, world heritage, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Residence of Mrs. Potter Palmer, Chicago, Ill.
Picryl description: Public domain image of a victorian era building, victorian house, 19th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Track elevation and stone mixer, Chicago
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Board of Trade directly after session, Chicago, Ill.
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Str. William E. Corey, interior of hold
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Twentieth Anuual Convention of the [Brother]hood of St. Andrew, [Chica...
H66226 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Geo. R. Lawrence Co.; September 27, 1905; DLC/PP-1905:42715. Copyright claimant's address: 274 Wabash Ave. [Chicago], Ill. No. 1.
[National League Park, Chicago], Panoramic Photograph
H82296 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright claimant's address: Chicago, Ill. Title derived from copyright deposit records. Copyright deposit; Geo. R. Lawrence Co.; August 20, 1906.
Weber Works, International Harvester Co., Chicago, Ill.
H97305 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright claimant's address: Chicago, New York, Washington. No. 9135B. Copyright deposit; Geo. R. Lawrence Co.; July 27, 1907.
[Marshall Field's (Marshall Field & Co.) store, Chicago, Ill.]
Picryl description: Public domain image of a department store, commercial building, downtown, shopping center, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Birds-eye view of the elevated railroads and the parks and boulevards ...
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[Municipal Court Building & Illinois Athletic Club, Chicago, Ill.]
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a historic courthouse building, court, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
U.S. Mail Dept., C. & N.W. Ry. [Chicago and North Western Railway stat...
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Labor Party, First National Covention, Chicago, Ill., Nov. 22, 1919
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Chauncey Depew, Senator Perkins, and Governor Whitman of New York, at ...
Scenes from the 16th Republican National Convention held in Chicago, June 7-10, 1916. Long shot of delegates outside the Congress Hotel. Medium shots, from left to right, of Mrs. Olive H. Whitman; Governor Char... More
[Suffragists demonstrating against Woodrow Wilson in Chicago, 1916]
Title derived by Library of Congress staff. Summary: Photograph of (mostly female) suffrage supporters demonstrating with signs addressed to President Woodrow Wilson while assembled along a street in Chicago. S... More
Campaign in Illinois. One of the big Woman's Party street banners bein...
Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of banner hanging from building. Banner: "Women voters, you have the vote. Get it for all American women. Vote against Wilson. He opposes national woman suffrage... More
University of Chicago Law School, 1955-63. Law School detail
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University of Chicago Law School, 1955-63. Law School
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Field Museum and Illinois Central Tracks, Chicago
Print shows trains and train tracks with the Field Museum in the distance. [Art and industry, Chicago], [His Railroad series] Wuerth, 721. Edition of 50? Print from well-wiped plate. Plate destroyed. (Source: B... More
[Mrs. Guilford Dudley of Nashville with ear trumpet, talking into ear ...
No. CH708. Public domain photograph of politician, meeting, government and politics, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
In the wheat pit of the Board of Trade of the city of Chicago
Photograph shows traders on the floor bidding. Public domain photograph - New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Diphtheria strikes unprotected children Protect your child with toxoid...
Poster for the Chicago Department of Health, showing a flying disc "Toxoid" preventing a lightning bolt from striking a child.
Keep fit ... get your test now / Kreger.
City of Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium poster promoting testing for tuberculosis and showing two athletes hurdling barriers "malnutrition" and "heart disease" and a third athlete stumbling over the b... More
Art - Free neighborhood classes for adults ... enroll now
Poster from the WPA Adult Education program of the Chicago Board of Education announcing free neighborhood art classes, showing men and women working at easels. Date stamped on verso: May 22 1937. Work Projects... More
Sculpture and children in fountains - Jane Addams Houses
Photograph shows children playing in fountains and on animal sculptures in the courtyard of the Jane Addams Homes housing project, Chicago, Illinois, built in 1938 by Franklin D. Roosevelt's WPA Program. Taken ... More
Section of a locomotive frame, which will be welded to replace a broke...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a railway worker, railroad, locomotive repair shop, industrial facility, early 20th-century industry, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Working on the cylinder of a locomotive at the C & NW RR 40th Street s...
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Locomotives over the ash pit at the roundhouse and coaling station at ...
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General view of part of the South Water Street Illinois Central Railro...
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Highway through Chicago, Illinois. Sign showing speed limit and U.S. R...
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Working on the boiler of a locomotive at the 40th Street shops of the ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a steam locomotive, train cars, railroad tracks, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
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A black and white photo of a group of people - FSA / Office of War Inf...
This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More
Pneumothorax treatment for tuberculosis at the municipal sanitarium on...
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Ascending steps of El, Chicago, Illinois
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A black and white photo of two women in a room. Office of War Informat...
This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More
Operation at Provident Hospital, Chicago, Illinois
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Man on South Side of Chicago, Illinois
Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Buckingham Fountain. Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois
Picryl description: Public domain image of a fountain, historic landmark, classical or neoclassical architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
A man sitting on the steps of a building. Office of War Information Ph...
Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A black and white photo of people on a beach. Office of War Informatio...
This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More
A couple of people standing next to each other. Office of War Informat...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Ascending steps of El, Chicago, Illinois
Public domain photograph of a crowd, event, meeting, demonstration, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Boys in front of A&P market waiting for jobs to cart home groceries of...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
A group of children standing on a sidewalk in front of a building. Off...
This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More
. Office of War Information Photograph
This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More
A black and white photo of a man in a suit and hat. Office of War Info...
This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More
A black and white photo of a group of girls holding hands. Great Depre...
Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty during the Great Depression, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Crowd gathered to see damage done by fire on the South Side of Chicago...
Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Group of people talking in front of church, South Side of Chicago, Ill...
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A black and white photo of a person sitting on a ledge. Office of War ...
This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More
Trucks at loading terminal, Chicago, Illinois
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A black and white photo of people on a bridge. Office of War Informati...
This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More
Children in front of "kitchenette" apartment, Black Belt, Chicago, Ill...
Picryl description: Public domain image of children of farmers, migrant workers, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Literature on display in Chicago, Illinois, office of the Pittsburgh C...
Public domain photograph of a person holding a newspaper, people reading news, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A black and white photo of a group of children. Office of War Informat...
This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More
A group of men standing in front of a store. Office of War Information...
This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More
A group of men standing next to each other. Office of War Information ...
This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More
A black and white photo of a group of people. Office of War Informatio...
Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Doctor entering Provident Hospital, South Side of Chicago, Illinois
Picryl description: Public domain historical photograph of 1930s America during the Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
A group of people walking down a street. Great Depression FFSA / OWI N...
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Child going up the stairs into "kitchenette" apartment house, Black Be...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of a child of a farmer, migrant worker, Great Depression era, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
A couple of men standing next to a wooden bench. Office of War Informa...
This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More
A black and white photo of a man in a suit and hat. Office of War Info...
This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More
A black and white photo of a man standing on a set of stairs. Office o...
This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More
A black and white photo of a boat in the water. Office of War Informat...
This image is one of the images made by photographers working in Stryker's unit as it existed in a succession of government agencies: the Farm Security Administration (1937-1942). The photographs of the Farm S... More
[Steel worker in mill as molten steel spills from vat, in Chicago, Ill...
Frame 11 of contact sheet. Forms part of: LOOK Magazine Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
[Jimmy Carter and Mayor Richard J. Daley at the Illinois State Democra...
Contact sheet folder caption: Carter campaign trip ... at Ill. State Democratic Convention held at Medinah Temple, downtown Chicago .... TOH. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sh... More
Carol M. Highsmith - Marina city overlook, Chicago, Illinois
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More