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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.

An black and white photograph of a man being removed by another man and a police officer from a bar or shop nearby. He is clearly either drunk or been in a fight on what the photographer writes is Christmas Eve night. (East 78th Street & 3rd Avenue,…

An MP3 recording of the song "Midway Plaisance" lasting 4 mins. and 45 secs. long.

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

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

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”

A scene in "Max Wants a Divorce" featuring Don Meyer's arrangement of Ernst Luz's "Intermezzo—Trot"

A scene in "Max Wants a Divorce" featuring Don Meyer's arrangement of Ernst Luz's "Dramatic Andante (Pathetic or Romantic)"

Sheet music to "An Afternoon in Midway Plaisance" by Gustav Luders

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…

An MP3 recording of the song "An Afternoon in Midway Plaisance" lasting 8 mins. and 1 sec. long.

Cover image and audio recording of "The Ferris Wheel March and Two Step, by Samuel Lapin. Cover image includes a photo by J.B. Quirk Cut Co. of decorated ferris wheels and an unattributed photo of Lapin

Cover image and audio recording of "The Ferris Wheel March and Two Step, by Samuel Lapin. Cover image includes a photo by J.B. Quirk Cut Co. of decorated ferris wheels and an unattributed photo of Lapin

An MP3 recording of the song "The Ferris Wheel March and Two-Step" lasting 2 mins. and 16 secs. long.

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.

2015 Field School

A lithograph of McVicker's Theatre

The inside cover of "The Wonder Hat" playbill listing all the cast members for the production.

A color printed playbill of "The Wonder Hat" from the Chicago Little Theatre.

A drawing of the duke giving his version of Hamlet's soliloquy

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

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

Fight between Henry Armstrong and Barney Ross. Armstrong won the fight.

Pete seeger performing at the opening of the Washington Labor Canteen, 1212 18th St. N.W., Washington, D.C.

A scene in "Max Wants a Divorce" featuring Don Meyer's arrangement of Scott Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag"

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