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Glass sherds from a bottle of Horlick's Malted Milk Powder, found at the Charnley-Persky House.

1796-1968
Founded in 1796 by Thomas Minton, Mintons first focused on producing practical tableware, often with prints like the kitten print on the plate below, found at the Charnley-Persky House. After Thomas’s son, Herbert, took control of the…

Ceramics with a maker's mark from the Union Potteries Company, East Liverpool, Ohio, found at the Charnley-Persky House.

Pieces of a glass bottle from the United States Brewing Company, found at the Charnley-Persky House.

1885-1966
Bowman Dairy Co. first came to Chicago in 1885, an outgrowth of a St. Louis milk venture; six years later, Bowman was concentrated in Chicago alone. In early years, Bowman was known for its horse-drawn wagons distributing milk (pictured…

A piece of glass from the Chicago Brewing Company, found at the Charnley-Persky House.

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…

A glass bottle from the Schiller Pharmacy on Clark and Schiller Streets in Chicago, found at the Charnley-Persky House.

Glass embossed with "Trichobio" found at the Charnley-Persky House.

A photograph of the Charnley-Persky House circa 1900.

A piece of Belleek pottery found in the Charnley-Persky House Archaeological Project, showing a first period black mark, dating its manufacture between 1863-1890.

Two print advertisements for MacLaren's Imperial Cheese, as well as a glass jar made for MacLaren's Roquefort found at the Charnley-Persky House.

An advertisement for the Seville Packing Company's Pim-Olas olives.

Ellen Gates Starr, classmate of Jane's at Rockford Seminary and co-founder of Hull-House, ca. 1880

Artist's rendering of the fire, by Currier and Ives; the view faces northeast across the Randolph Street Bridge.

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

Toynbee Hall, c. 1902.

Jane Addams at Rockford College, 1880

1852-present
E. H. Sargent was established in 1852; a bottle embossed with the company’s name was found at the Charnley-Persky House in 2010. In 1875, Sargent began marketing through a catalog, the first recorded mail order solicitation for…

The Chicago Daily Tribune, summarizes Addams' talk to the Chicago Bureau of Charities on the morality of charity.

Jane Addams, taken c. 1895

The song "Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag" by Irving Caesar will be printed, according to this Congressional record.

George Bush Sr. declares May 1, 1991, as Loyalty Day, calling upon "all Americans to observe that day with appropriate ceremonies in their homes, in schools, and in other suitable places." The proclamation quotes from the Pledge of Allegiance.

He declares that the week between September 17, 1989, and September 23, 1989, will constitute Citizenship Day and Constitution Week.

President Reagan's proclamation of this date as Loyalty Day takes inspiration from the Pledge of Allegiance.