"No lot or lots in this subdivision or any interest, therein may at any time hereafter be sold, conveyed or leased or transferred, by grantee or grantees or by any successor or successors in title of a grantee or grantees, either voluntarily or by…
The Emergency Peace Federation holds a mass meeting at the Raliegh Hotel. From there, members plan to visit Congress in protest against the declaration of war. The American Union Against Militarism also conducts a referendum nation-wide. At the same…
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
A 1907 image of the Fine Arts Building Main Entrance housed between the Auditorium Hotel and The Chicago Club. Within the FIne Arts Building were the Albert Roullier Art Rooms.
The full cast of The Wonder Hat meets, overlaid on an image of a historical production of The Wonder Hat from Central High School in Aberdeen, North Dakota
The German government extends Austria-Hungary a "blank check" in the event of war between Austria-Hungary and Serbia. German and Austro-Hungarian statesmen recognize that war between Austria-Hungary and Serbia is inevitable, and that the war is…
The ACTUAL Kingston Trio Performing their No1 hit Tom Dooley on the Kraft Music Hall with Milton Berle. A truly haunting track and was the fifth official number 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and peaked at number 5 in the UK charts.
A foreboding of the Red Scare, Archibald Stevenson, a staffer of a New York State Senate sub-committee investigating German propaganda during the First World War, produces a list of "Radicals and Pacifists," which includes Addams and her long-time…
Upon entering the English Channel, the ship is stopped by a British naval vessel and two German stowaways are taken off of The Noordam. A few months earlier, in February of 1915, Germany declares a policy of submarine warfare against neutral…
As The Noordam travels through the English Channel on its way to Rotterdam, it is stopped once again. The ship sits off the coast of Dover for four days. The delegate's telegrams are censored, and no one is allowed to disembark. Ships from the…
