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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.

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.

The ecology of mental disorder / Leo Levy, Louis Rowitz.

American Medical Association.

BMA world tour : Alternative itinerary. Part 1.

Frank Billings : the architect of medical education, an apostle of excellence in clinical practice, a leader in Chicago medicine / [by Edwin F. Hirsch].

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

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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.

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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.

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