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Subject Baseball Players (4) Baseball (3) Buildings (3) Lawyers (3) Organized Crime (2) Show more... Date 1919 (3) 1893 (2) 1906 (2) 1912 (2) 1916 (2) Show more... Creator Taylor (1) Wagner, Fred H. (1) Johnson, Donna Lee (1) Kaufmann Weimer & ... (1)

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1.	Luncheon by Daniel Burnham	Luncheons	Caption: "Luncheon by Daniel Hudson Burnham, architect, to his city-planning colleagues in business when the Plan of Chicago was completed in 1908. From left to right (upper row) : Edward B. Butler, Daniel...

2.	Comiskey and White Sox spring training train	Baseball; Railroads	Caption: "Charles A. Comiskey has the distinction of being the first club-owner to use special trains to carry his players across the country. In this wintry picture, "Commy" is shown standing in the snow...

3.	Rev. William W. Everts	Clergy; Preachers	From text: "The Rev. W. W. Everts, D.D., of the First Baptist Church, was another who could always be depended on to strike straight from the shoulder. He left Louisville, Ky., in 1859, because of his...

4.	James Ryan, Maclay Hoyne and Frank Johnston, Jr.	Lawyers	Caption: "James Ryan (central figure), alias 'Prof. Charles T. Crane' of the clairvoyant trust, cleaned up $60,000 in seven months through detective bureau connivance. At right and left are Hoyne and his...

5.	Hoyne and Lavin questioning Perry	Lawyers	Caption: "State's Attorney Maclay Hoyne, (at left) and Capt. Patrick J. Lavin (at right) questioning James Perry, one of the 'Teddy' Webb gang of auto bandits that, in 1912, terrorized the city."

6.	Michigan Avenue, showing Auditorium	Hotels; Theaters; Offices buildings	Caption: "Michigan Avenue, showing the Auditorium[.] Michigan Avenue lies along the lake front and is a favorite driveway. No obstructing buildings lie between it and the lake and the cool breezes make...

7.	C. A. Coey and Charles Bonaparte	Lawyers; Cabinet officers	Caption: "At the left--C. A. Coey, next to him--Charles Bonaparte, grandson of the late Napoleon the Great." Note: Charles Joseph Bonaparte was in fact a grand nephew of Napoleon 1.

8.	Union Club	Clubs	From text: "The Union Club was organized in 1878 … In 1881, the present handsome club house was built. Admirably situated on Washington Place (at the corner of Dearborn Avenue) it attracts the attention...

9.	Michigan Avenue streetwall	Buildings; Waterfronts	Caption: "Chicago's Sky Line and Water Front of the Down-Town Business District" Caption also identifies buildings in view. They are, from left to right: "Blackstone Hotel", "Harvester Building", "Congress...

10.	Al Capone	Criminals; Organized crime	Caption: "His Favorite Pose" Here is an excellent likeness of Alphonse Capone, the Big Boy of Chicago Gangland, and the greatest gangster that ever lived. When King Al poses for a photograph which isn't...

11.	Scene after Tony Lombardo's assassination	Criminals; Homicides; Organized crime	Caption: "Tony Lombardo, King of the Mafia, and a lieutenant for Alphonse Capone. (Left) Madison and Dearborn Streets where Lombardo was assassinated one summer afternoon."

12.	Peoples Gas Building	Buildings	Caption: "Beauty and Business." View is looking northwest, from the Art Institute of Chicago, towards the Peoples Gas Building located at 122 S. Michigan Avenue. The Pullman Building appears at left.

13.	Women's room in safe deposit vaults	Banking	From text: "At the left is a reception room for women, furnished quite in the style of a similar apartment in a luxurious residence. A uniformed maid is in attendance, the huge mahogany table in the center...

14.	View west on Adams Street	Street scenes; Buildings	Caption: "The Vista of Adams Street." View is looking west from the Art Institute of Chicago. Pullman Building, at left; Peoples Gas Building, at right.

15.	Inter-Ocean Building	Newspapers	Caption: "[Engraved for The Standard Guide Company.] The Inter-Ocean Building, Madison and Dearborn Sts. [See "Newspapers."]. From text: "In 1861 the late James W. Shehan founded the Morning Post. In 1865...

16.	Receiving the Keeley treatment	Alcoholism--Treatment	Caption: "[Engraved for The Standard Guide Company.] The Keeley Institute--Taking the Hypodermic Treatment. [See "Keeley Institute."]". From text: "An illustration of the method pursued is given in this...

17.	Blackstone branch interior	Public libraries	From text: "This beautiful structure is worthy of particular mention, not only because it is one of the finest and costliest library buildings of its size in the world, but also because it marks the beginning...

18.	New post office site	Post offices	Caption: "Chicago's recommended new post office site, new Union Terminal to the left, Northwestern Depot to the right. The Chicago Plan Commission has not recommended a type for the new Chicago postal...

19.	South Water Street today	Commercial streets	Caption: "South Water Street as it is today--a physical misfit in Chicago's scheme of development." From text: "South Water Street today is an economic waste; a burdensome charge on all the people; a drawback...

20.	Two house on Lill Avenue	Houses	Caption: "The simple wooden cottage at left--with its unusual second-story porch--contrasts with a brick two-flat building on Lill Street."

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