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“Willard Fountain Bronze, At Entrance to Willard Hall” Photograph from: Anna Adams Gordon, Frances E. Willard, A Memorial Volume, 1898, pg 112 Oldest found photograph of sculpture

Nightlife depicts a crowded cabaret in the South Side neighborhood of Bronzeville, with people seated around tables on the right and at a bar on the left.

An mp3 file of the Theme Song for the 1933 Century of Progress World's Fair, "In 1933"

General John Logan Memorial, also known as the John Alexander Logan Monument, is an outdoor bronze sculpture commemorating John A. Logan by sculptors Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Alexander Phimister Proctor and architect Stanford White, installed in…

Abraham Lincoln: The Head of State (also called Seated Lincoln or Sitting Lincoln) is a 9-foot (2.7 m) tall bronze statue of Abraham Lincoln in Grant Park, in Chicago. Created by Augustus Saint-Gaudens and completed by his workshop in 1908, it was…

The steering wheel from the S.S. Eastland, an excursion boat that capsized in the Chicago River in 1915, killing over 800 people.

'Fly Me To The Moon' by Frank Sinatra

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PDF transcript of interview of Elmer Thomas, packinghouse worker, by Federal Writers Project worker Betty Burke.

Transcript of an oral history interview- Edo J. Belli interviewed by Betty J. Blum. The original interview was done on November 3, 1983 at the Belli & Belli office in Chicago Illinois. It was published in 2005.