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Photo of teenage Rogers O'Neill

Slow Air played by Kevin Henry

1901-1932
A figure from the 1915 patent for a new design for the Coca-Cola bottle, created by the Root Glass Company. Established by Chapman J. Root in 1901, the Root Glass Company is best known for manufacturing bottles for Coca-Cola, beginning in…

1893-1910
Roxbury Distilling Company produced liquor, most famously Roxbury Rye, from 1893 to 1910. The company’s founder, George T. Gambrill was convicted of fraud in 1910 and the company was shut down. Gambrill’s most famous product, Roxbury…

Rudy Lozano at a Center for Autonomous Social Action meeting in 1975.

Rudy Lozano at a Center for Autonomous Social Action meeting in 1975.

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.

Cover of Ryan's Mammoth Collection

"It is an express condition of this plat that the premises herein described shall not be conveyed or leased by the owners or any of the successors in title of the owners to any person who is not a Caucasian; that neither the premises herein described…

1865-1920s
Samuel Merrill Bixby began manufacturing and selling shoe blacking in 1860, selling his short-lived shoe store to focus full-time on the venture in 1865. Soon after, S. M. Bixby & Company was formed, producing a wide range of dye-related…

Jig - Solo Tin Whistle

Saint Stanislaus Kostka Church, Chicago, 1913 (NBY 656)

This section of the September 8, 1892 issue of The Youth's Companiondescribed the "salute to the flag.

Screenshot from 1925 film His People

Screenshot from the 1925 film His People

Sample Page from Music of Ireland, 1001 Gems

Sample Page, Bunting's Ancient Music of Ireland, Hesburgh Libraries of Notre Dame

Samuel Barnett with graduates of Oxford & Cambridge at Toynbee Hall c.1903-5

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.

1857-Present
Sanford’s Manufacturing Company was founded in Massachusetts in 1857 and moved to Chicago in 1866. The company sold a range of products, but was best known for its ink (as the 1920 ad below attest); in the 1940s, the company changed…

An MP3 recording of the song of "Santa Lucia" lasting 2 mins. and 34 secs. long.

"No premises or lots in said subdivision shall be sold or leased to, or occupied by a person or persons other than of the Caucasian race" (Source: Plat #12840797, Platbook 342, Page 29. Approved: December 16, 1941. Recorded: February 13, 1942.…

A lithograph of the Sauganash Hotel as seen between 1830 and 1833

A photograph taken at the historical site of the Sauganash Hotel

"A condition in language as follows: It is an express condition that no part of the real estate herein described shall ever be conveyed or leased to any person who is not Caucasian; provided that Caucasians while using or occupying said real estate,…