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First page of the sheet music for song titled, "The Avenues of Chicago"

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A portrait artist draws a woman, seated left, as a crowd watches behind the artist in Jazz Alley at 50th and Langley in Chicago

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1 photograph : gelatin silver print ; sheet 12.6 x 17.7 cm, on mount 20.2 x 26.6 cm.

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Two articles clipped from the Chicago Defender and saved in a scrapbook: "This Girl Band is Much Too Much with Swing and Jitter" and "Sweethearts."

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Charlie McCarthy was the creation of ventriloquist Edgar Bergen (1903-1978). Bergen was born to Swedish immigrant parents in Chicago in 1903, and at 16, began taking lessons in ventriloquism from Harry Lester. Bergen paid a Chicago woodcarver,…

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Photograph of the Chicago Theatre

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This is a picture of the bar at the Berghoff in the 1950s.

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Photograph of press conference Martin Luther King Jr. gave during his time in Chicago protesting segregated housing

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Harry Truman hold up Chicago Daily Tribune with a headline erroneously declaring Thomas Dewey the winner.
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