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Wrecked automobile lying upside-down in a ravine beneath a bridge with a crowd of people standing on a hill in the background

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…

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…

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."

A streetcar travels on 12th Street, east from Halsted Street, Chicago, Illinois, in 1906.

The image shows the raising of a block of brick buildings on Lake Street, Chicago, in 1857.

A photograph of Chicago skyline from the Tribune Tower with the Wrigley building in the foreground, showing the heavy smog that blanketed the city in the mornings.

Shoeshine boys on the steps of a building, Chicago, Illinois, circa 1930-1979.

View of the ruined stage of the Iroquois Theater, Chicago, Illinois, after the fire on December 30, 1903. Taken on January 4, 1904, the photographer was looking down from the balcony.

An illustration of Briggs House (a hotel in Chicago) being raised, as the city planned to lift the buildings up by a few feet in order to install new foundations and municipal sewage systems

Informal full-length portrait of Life guards Esther DeWolfe and Arthur Turk Conley wearing bathing suits, posing on the side of a swimming pool in Chicago, Illinois. DeWolfe is sitting in a high lifeguard chair, and Conley is pointing to the left of…

Titled, "Join the Parade: We had Polio Vaccine, get Your Polio Shots now.", the illustrated poster encourages polio vaccination among infants and children especially.

An illustration of a throat, mouth and tongue to show signs of Diphtheria, with a caption reading "Plate XI. Note the extension of the false membrane to the soft palate."

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

This image shows the view of crowds on State Street, south from Washington Street, in Chicago, Illinois, 1913.

Boys learning carpentry during a class at an open air summer school in Chicago, as open air schools were believed to help prevent and combat the spread of tuberculosis among children.

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.

Police officers measure the exit of the Iroquois Theater after the 1903 fire. Taken fromChicago's Awful Theater Horror, by the Survivors and Rescuers, with an introduction by Bishop Fallows. (Memorial Publishing Co.,D. B. McCurdy, 1904)

Exterior view of the Iroquois Theater at the time of the Iroquois Theater fire in Chicago, Illinois, December 30, 1903.