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Labor Unions
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Women Social Reformers
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Settlement Houses
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Singers
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1922
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1912
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1892
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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...
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Mrs. Raymond Robins
Labor unions; Women social reformers
From text: "… the Chicago Women's Trade Union League, of which Mrs. Raymond Robins was then President. ... A Strike Committee was immediately organized by the League and began to work through the following...
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Jane Addams
Labor unions; Women social reformers
From text: "The value of the services of such women during the strike as Ellen Gates Starr, Mrs. Raymond Robins, Jane Addams, Amelia Sears, Mrs. Lillie, Mrs. John Furie, Grace Abbott, and others, was incalculable....
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Ellen Gates Starr
Labor unions; Women social reformers
From text: "The value of the services of such women during the strike as Ellen Gates Starr, Mrs. Raymond Robins, Jane Addams, Amelia Sears, Mrs. Lillie, Mrs. John Furie, Grace Abbott, and others, was incalculable....
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Women's Local 275
Labor unions
Caption: "Officers and Executive Board Members Women's Local 275".
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Chicago Commons Woman's Club
Settlement houses; Clubwomen
From text: "[T]he Chicago Commons Woman's Club … now numbers about 125 women, and includes the representatives of twelve or fifteen nationalities and many different sects. Its Tuesday afternoon meetings,...
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Officers of Local Union No. 183
Labor unions
From text: "The first union of women workers, of the great packing houses of the Union Stock Yards of Chicago, was organized at the University of Chicago Settlement last April with twenty charter members....
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Mary A. Bickerdyke
Nurses
Caption: "Mrs. Mary A. (""Mother"") Bickerdyke (Organizer of Military Hospitals and Friend of the Soldiers) By Courtesy of the Chicago Historical Society". Mary Bickerdyke was a volunteer nurse and hospital...
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Mary Galloway Clybourne
Caption: "Mr. and Mrs. Archibald Clybourne, types of the pioneer By Courtesy of the Chicago Historical Society". Photograph is undated but appears to be from the 1860s.
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Public Library
Public libraries
Caption: "Chicago's Public Library building bears the reputation of being one of the finest library structures in the world. The interior is exquisitely finished in marble, mother-of-pearl and onyx. It...
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First taxicab in Chicago
Taxicabs
Caption: "The first taxicab seen in Chicago--C. A. Coey, owner."
12.
Lillian Russell
Singers; Actresses
Frontispiece
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Group of Footlight Favorites
Singers; Actors; Actresses
Caption: "Maurice Barrymore. Jessie Bartlett Davis. Georgia Cayvan. Isabella Irving. Richard Mansfield. Hattie Harvey."
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Mrs. Potter Palmer
World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Central portrait in five-portrait montage captioned "Prominent officials of the Board of Lady Managers." Other officials depicted are: "Mrs. Susan G. Cooke, Secretary Board of Lady Managers," "Mrs. V....
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Mrs. Russell B. Harrison
World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Image taken from five-portrait montage captioned "Prominent officials of the Board of Lady Managers." Other officials depicted are: ""Mrs. Susan G. Cooke, Secretary Board of Lady Managers," "Mrs. V. C....
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Jim Colosimo and Dale Winter
Criminals; Organized crime; Singers
Caption: "A rare photograph of "Big" Jim Colosimo and his wife, Dale Winter, taken shortly after their marriage. Note the laced shoes. Colosimo, over-lord of the Chicago underworld for twenty years, engaged...
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Niña Stuart van Zandt Spies
Anarchists
Wife of August Vincent Theodore Spies.
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Wells' Mastiff Shoes advertisement
Advertisements
Copy reads: "Wells' Mastiff Shoes Best Line on Earth For Men, boys, Youths, Women, Misses, & Children. Made up in all popular leathers for every member of the household. Stylish-Satisfactory-Popular Largest...
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Physiography laboratory
Public schools
Caption: "Physiography Laboratory--Marshall High School. By courtesy of the Board of Education."
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Frances E. Willard
Temperance; Activists
From text: "It is safe to say that no name among the residents of Evanston looms larger on the pages of the country's history than that of Frances Elizabeth Willard. … In 1874, Miss Willard was elected...
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