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A scene in "Max Wants a Divorce" featuring Don Meyer's arrangement of Tchaikovsky's "Waltz of the Flowers"

Photoplay cue music for silent films, "Reception Music," from Sam Fox Moving Picture Music Vol. 3 by J.S. Zamecnik

Photoplay cue music for silent films, "Detective Scene," from Sam Fox Moving Picture Music Vol. 3 by J.S. Zamecnik

Photoplay cue for "Mexican or Spanish" silent movie music, from the compilation Sam Fox Moving Picture Music, Vol. 1

Photoplay music for "Oriental" scenes by J.S. Zamecnik (Sam Fox Moving Picture Music Vol. 1, 1913).

Portrait photograph of Jane Addams seated at desk, holding pen.

Photoplay cue for silent movie comedy music, from the compilation Sam Fox Moving Picture Music, Vol. 3

Cover image and part of sheet music for "La Seduccion (Enchantment)" by Henri Clique

Photoplay cue music for "Intermezzo-Trot" from A.B.C. Dramatic Set No.15: “Society reception or cabaret scene”

Photoplay cue music for "Dramatic Andante" from A.B.C. Dramatic Set No.15: “Society reception or cabaret scene”

1916 Max Linder film with live accompaniment by the Lake Forest Moving Picture Orchestra, recorded February 2016. Features original music from the Silent era by composers such as J.S. Zamecnik, arranged by Don Meyer.

A 1952 radio play of "The Wonder Hat" by Kenneth Sawyer Goodman, performed by students associated with the Goodman Memorial Theatre; issued in a new digital version with color illustrations by Jaime Dear.

Photoplay cue for silent movie music, from the compilation Sam Fox Moving Picture Music, Vol. 1

Photoplay cue for silent movie music, from the compilation Sam Fox Moving Picture Music, Vol. 3

Sheet music for "Original Hesitation Waltz" by McNair Ilgenfritz, theory by Alice Martin.

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

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.

A backlit image of the American Flag from Flickr

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

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

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 "The World's Fair, or, Chicago Dudes' March" by Adam Geibel

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

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

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

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

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.

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

A handwritten diary with entries penned by Kenneth Sawyer Goodman.