![[1855–1881 Manuscript Account Book owned by Swedish-American, carpenter and cabinetmaker, Olof Peter Ahlgren in Sweden and Chicago]. Olof P. Ahlgren.](/pictures/thumb/144504_1.jpg?v=1534362271)
Olof Peter Ahlgren (1823-1906) is listed as a carpenter at the rear of 90 Front Street in Chicago in the 1876 Lakeside Annual Directory of... Read More
![[1871 Autograph Letter Signed; Anna M. Bartlett’s Eyewitness account of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871]. Anna M. Bartlett.](/pictures/thumb/3727518_1.jpg?v=1535581735)
Hannah Smith received a letter written on November 26, 1871 from her cousin who survived the Great Chicago Fire—“…never again do I want to behold... Read More
Stunning layout, C.1920s Burgess “Wireless” Batteries sales brochure and mail order sales list of batteries made specifically for home broadcasting/receiving radios. The batteries were manufactured... Read More
![U. S. Army Air Forces. Technical Training Command. Chicago School of Aircraft Instruments. Training Detachment [cover titles of two distinct pamphlets]. Chicago School of Aircraft Instruments.](/images/noimage-req.png)
Pair of World War II U. S. Army Air Forces Technical Training Command class books from the Chicago School of Aircraft Instruments Training Detachment. These... Read More
Autobiography from this Iowa native writing of her early life in North Dakota, her college degree achievement, and then her removal to Chicago during the... Read More
Original editorial cartoon drawing depicting the Tammany Tiger of New York City’s Democratic Party political machine. The political cartoon is signed at the lower left... Read More
Corrothers was a Midwestern African American, a clergyman and poet. “His newspaper sketches were later published as The Black Cat Club: Negro Humor and Folk-lore... Read More
Salesman’s sample book or canvassing book for a popular, illustrated topical history of the United States, Footprints of Four Centuries, The Story of the American... Read More
![[Women Sculptors & Race] Malvina Hoffman. N. A. Malvina Hoffman, 1885–1966.](/pictures/thumb/3726735_1.jpg?v=1540246014)
Invitation to the January 30, 1934 sculpture exhibition “The Races of Man” by Malvina Hoffman held at the Grand Central Art Galleries in New York... Read More
![[Archive of 113 Letters to and from Picture Frame Manufacturers George W. and Lyman M. Smith of Portland, Maine and their extended family, 1827–1891]. George W. Smith, Lyman M. Smith, Hannah D. Smith.](/pictures/thumb/372125_1.jpg?v=1544051465)
The Smith Brothers, George W. (1832–?) and Lyman M. Smith (1835–1872), were picture frame and bracket manufacturers in Portland, Maine ca. 1867–1872. This archive is... Read More
At the time of this book’s issue, Chicago was the second-largest Black population in America. Drake, a trained anthropologist, presents the social history of African-Americans... Read More
At the time of this book’s issue, Chicago was the second-largest Black population in America. Drake, a trained anthropologist, presents the social history of African-Americans... Read More
Twenty-fifth anniversary catalog of the Storkline Furniture Corporation of Chicago selling baby cribs, high chairs, chifforobes, bathing and changing tables, “play yards” (playpens), potty chairs... Read More
The author’s first book, a crime novel about gangsters published in 1929. The story: Rico, a small-time criminal heads east to join mob to increase... Read More
