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Cover image of sheet music for "Santa Lucia," "Finiculi-Finicula," and "L’addio a Napoli" ("Adieu to Naples")

Cover image of sheet music for "The Ferris Wheel Waltz and Polka," with lithographic image by Orcutt Co., Chicago.

Mrs. Bertha Honoré Palmer, wife of Potter Palmer, a wealthy socialite in Chicago society at the turn of the 20th century.

A photographic representation of the statue "Monument with Standing Beast" by French artist Jean Dubuffet.

Cover image of sheet music for "The Song of the Ferris Wheel" by George Schleiffarth.

Cover image of sheet music for "The Song of the Ferris Wheel" by George Schleiffarth.

The Bellamy salute is the salute described by Francis Bellamy (1855–1931) to accompany the American Pledge of Allegiance, which he had authored. During the period when it was used with the Pledge of Allegiance, it was sometimes known as the "flag…

Clip from an illustrated digital video based on the Goodman Theatre's radio production of The Wonder Hat, 1952

Clip from an illustrated digital video based on the Goodman Theatre's radio production of The Wonder Hat, 1952

Clip from an illustrated digital video based on the Goodman Theatre's radio production of The Wonder Hat, 1952

Clip from an illustrated digital video based on the Goodman Theatre's radio production of The Wonder Hat, 1952

Clip from an illustrated digital video based on the Goodman Theatre's radio production of The Wonder Hat, 1952

Clip from an illustrated digital video based on the Goodman Theatre's radio production of The Wonder Hat, 1952

Still from an illustrated digital video based on the Goodman Theatre's radio production of The Wonder Hat, 1952

Still from an illustrated digital video based on the Goodman Theatre's radio production of The Wonder Hat, 1952

A handwritten diary with entries penned by Kenneth Sawyer Goodman.

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

A poster of The Players' Club of the Chicago Hebrew Institute presenting two plays, one being the "Back of the Yards" by Kenneth Sawyer Goodman.

CD album Cover for "Souvenir Music from the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893"

Cover image from sheet music for "Midway Plaisance" by Dennis Mackin and W.T. Jefferson

Cover image for sheet music "Columbian Polka" by Lillian Beatrice Mathewson, with an inscription in cursive reading, "Dedicated by permission to Mrs. Potter Palmer, President, board of Lady Managers at the World's Columbian Exposition"--Cover

Cover image of sheet music for "Chicago World's Exposition Grand March" by Victor Vogel

Cover image of sheet music for "Columbus, or World's Fair Grand March," by Frank Drayton

Cover image of sheet music for "The World's Fair, or, Chicago Dudes' March" by Adam Geibel

Gustav Luders (sometimes spelled “Lueders”, 1865–1913) was a minor composer of operettas in the late nineteenth century. Born and trained in Germany, he immigrated first to Milwaukee in 1888 and then became a musical theater director and…

Cover image of sheet music for "Echoes from the White City," by Edward Holst.

Cover image for sheet music to "The Last Day of the Fair" by Frank Swain

A backlit image of the American Flag from Flickr

Children of the Weill public school, from the so-called international settlement, shown in a flag pledge ceremony. Some of them are evacuees of Japanese ancestry who will be housed in War relocation authority centers for the duration.

Students pledging to the flag, 1899, 8th Division, Washington, D.C. Part of the Frances Benjamin Johnston 1890 - 1900 Washington, D.C., school survey.