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Images about Chicago

9 images from works
  • Theodore Roosevelt reads to an audience of pigs their forthcoming fate in filthy Chicago slaughterhouses. Colour line block after T. Heine, 1906.
  • State Street, Chicago: large shop buildings. Photograph, ca. 1880.
  • The Grand Pacific Hotel, Chicago, Illinois. Photograph, ca. 1880.
  • A mother with a baby; advertising the Maternity Hospital, Chicago. Colour lithograph, 1895.
  • Cook County Hospital, Chicago: exterior. Photograph, 187-.
  • The Chicago Union Stock Yard, Chicago, Illinois: cattle grazing in pens. Photograph, ca. 1880.
  • A mother with a baby; advertising the Maternity Hospital, Chicago. Colour lithograph, 1895.
  • Chicago, Illinois: a grain elevator on the Chicago River. Photograph, ca. 1880.
  • A dentist in his surgery with patient at Camp Douglas. Pen drawing by C.W. Law, 1862.

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    An ordinance regulating the design, construction and installation of domestic refrigerating systems circulating any volatile substance to produce refrigeration / City Council of Chicago.

    Chicago (Ill.) | Date: [1930]

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