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Glass slide advertising a showing of the 1917 Essanay film Max Wants a Divorce.
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Sample title card from "Max Wants a Divorce," designed by Rachel Tenuta '17, reading: "Chicago Nov. 15, 1916. Dear Mister Linder, Your Uncle passed away and left you $3 million, under one condition, that you remain a bachelor. In that case, and only…
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Old Cook County Hospital opened in 1866 at 18th and Arnold Streets, Chicago, Illinois, circa 1900.
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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…
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A close-up black and white photograph of three men on a porch stoop. They are obviously homeless, desolate, and probably drinking alcohol in the image.
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Image of Drs. Neely and Hanley vaccinating building department clerks against smallpox in a room in the County Building in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois.
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Boys and horse drinking from the Drake Fountain in front of City Hall, Chicago, Illinois, 1887.
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Crowd in front of a storefront with the sign Bank Real Estate during the race riots in Chicago, Illinois, 1919.
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Shoeshine boys on the steps of a building, Chicago, Illinois, circa 1930-1979.
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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."
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A photo taken at the historical location of Rice's Hotel
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir apparent to the Austro-Hungarian empire, and his wife Sophie Chotek, are assassinated by Serb nationalist, 19 year-old Gavrilo Princip, an agent of the Serbia-based hypernationalist group the Black Hand. A secret…
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