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Architectural drawings, specifications, and rental information for the 900 North Michigan Avenue Building, Chicago, Illinois, designed by architect Jarvis Hunt.

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The collection includes a wide variety of images depicting people in Chicago neighborhoods (such as Maxwell Street Market and a skid row along Madison Street), celebrities in Chicago and elsewhere, entertainers, politicians, gamblers, prisoners, authors, and other cultural symbols. Many ...

Correspondence, newspaper clippings, and notes about Arthur Rubloff's activities as a Chicago real estate developer and advocate for civic improvement. Includes minutes and other files of the Greater North Michigan Avenue Association (GNMA), 1947-1966 (4 boxes), some related to the Magnificent Mi...

Title searches, correspondence, financial records, and reports pertaining to the management and operation of the Baird and Warner real estate firm of Chicago (Ill.) and various of its properties. Most of the properties were located in the Old Town, Lincoln Park, Lakeview, Near North, Hyde Park, a...

Photographs and negatives of popular Chicago streets and sites primarily in the Loop area, by the commercial photography studio Barnes-Crosby Company. Many focus on individual buildings such as hotels, office buildings, stores, museums, theaters, hospitals, libraries, government buildings, organi...

Primarily modern copies of photographs made originally ca. 1868-1973 of Palmer family members, Palmer family estates, portrait photographs, and 1933 Chicago World's Fair. The photographs detail the social lives of the Palmer family and other family members, including the Cantacuzene family; the G...

Research notes, correspondence, newspaper clippings, postcards, and magazine articles relating to Bertha H. Palmer and the Palmer family, arranged alphabetically by subject. Most materials are newspaper clippings and research notes compiled by James Guth in the 1970s. Topics include Potter Palmer...

Documentary photographs depict primarily African American residents, notably families and teenagers, living in Chicago's Cabrini Green, a Chicago Housing Authority housing project. Includes images of daily life, interior and exterior shots, and holiday celebrations such as Christmas

Miscellaneous papers, including correspondence, diplomas, certificates, and military commissions of various members of the Charles family of Chicago (Ill.), including papers from the law practice of Albert N. Charles, financial records compiled by Albert Charles and Oscar Charles, items relating ...

Images of activities outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention, showing police, national guardsmen, anti-war activists, and demonstrations and protesters in Chicago (Ill.)

Correspondence, minutes, reports, clippings, newsletters, financial records, and research data of the Chicago Area Project, a community oriented program established in the 1930s for delinquency prevention and research, administered by Clifford R. Shaw and Henry D. McKay; plus related files of the...

Photographs taken by Robert M. Lightfoot to accompany the Chicago Central Communities Study prepared for the Chicago Department of Development and Planning. Includes street views of commercial buildings, dwellings, and industrial buildings located on Chicago Avenue, Michigan Avenue, Oak street, a...

Correspondence, minutes (1894-1960), annual and other reports, personnel records, records of clubs based at the settlement house, neighborhood census data and surveys compiled by the Chicago Commons, the second settlement house founded in Chicago, and by the Chicago Commons Association, which ope...

A portfolio of photographs by photographer Diane J. Schmidt in collaboration with artist Michele Fitzsimmons. The photographs depict a female nude set against a backdrop of familiar and notable Chicago landmarks and scenes such as the Water Tower, the Picasso sculpture, Sears Tower, Buckingham Fo...

Color (6) and black-and-white photographs (13) by photographer Diane J. Schmidt in collaboration with performance artist Michele Fitzsimmons. The photographs comprise a portion of "The Chicago Exhibition" portfolio and depict a nude Michele Fitzsimmons set against a backdrop of Chicago landmarks ...

Architectural drawings and renderings for Lake Shore Drive near the Oak Street interchange, rapid transit subway plans, Near North Side sidewalk plans, a map of land use for the Near North Side as of January 1970, and a metropolitan transportation study map. All records pertaining to the Chicago ...

Collection of lantern slides used by the Chicago Plan Commission, which was formed in 1909 as an outcome of the Burnham Plan. Slides were used to illustrate lectures that were given to organizations and businesses to promote the Plan. Subjects include street, park, and lakefront improvements espe...

Deed from George W. Streeter to Hanora Hollet (1890 Aug. 6), constitution (1899), abstract of title (1900), title acquisition and special assessment records (2 v. plus 47 p. from a third volume, 1899-1902), and other items relating to the District of Lake Michigan, which was established by George...

Postcards advertising Don the Beachcomber restaurant, located at 101 East Walton Place in Chicago (Ill.). Views of the entrance lobby, Tahitian Room, Zombie Room, and Cannibal Room are shown.

Sketchbooks, reference material, press clippings, correspondence, exhibit programs, and other papers of Edgar Miller, a Chicago artist, architect, and interior designer. A majority of the sketchbooks contain pencil or black ink drawings, many of which are abstract forms or faces. Reference materi...

The Fort Dearborn Project was an urban renewal project initiated in 1949 by Arthur Rubloff, realtor and chairman of Arthur Rubloff Company. The collection consists of correspondence, financial records, reports, minutes, by-laws, questionnaires, photographs, and published materials.

The General Counsel records consist of 7.25 linear feet spanning the years 1884 to 1989, with the bulk of materials being from 1906 to 1970, and include correspondence; property deeds and title abstracts; articles of incorporation, charters, and by-laws; minutes and resolutions; affiliation agree...

Real estate agreements, legal documents, correspondence, maps, newspaper clippings, and other papers of Henry W. Alm, a Chicago lawyer. The collection primarily relates to Alm's work as the administrator of the Herman Krueding Trust and Krueding's dispute over real estate referred to as the Chica...