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Painting shows a large vessel towed by a steam tug, moving under the upraised Franklin-Orleans St. bridge; the southwest corner of the Merchandise Mart ( a commercial building located in the downtown Loop that opened in 1930) on the right. Small…

Hand puppet of the character Beulah Witch created by Chicago puppeteer Burr Tillstrom around 1947 for the popular children's television show Kukla, Fran and Ollie.

Chicago newspaper popular in the latter half of the nineteenth-century founded in 1854. The paper was originally published in the fifth story of the McCormick Block, on the corner of Randolph and Dearborn streets. The circulation was but little over…

From its beginnings in 1847, the newspaper pledged to be a good citizen and an active participant in the life of Chicago. The Tribune was also a standard-bearer for innovative journalism. During the paper's formative years, the Tribune was a leading…

The Daily News was founded in 1875 and began publishing early the next year. It was the first one-cent newspaper published in Chicago. It strove for mass readership. The purpose was to establish a paper the price of which should be the lowest unit of…

This button is a 1 7/16 inch button with a locking pin back. It is a circle white litho button with black text and centered image of Bob Bell as Bozo the Clown. The text says: I Visited Bozo's Curcus WGN-TV, Channel 9.

Postcard showing tourists on a bridge in the Japanese Garden in Jackson Park, Chicago IL

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.

1914 portrait of Jane Addams, social worker and founder of Hull House in Chicago.

Documents the research and physical labor involved in the creation of Judy Chicago's The dinner party, a monumental tribute to the women of spirit and accomplishments through the ages.