![Radio’s Future and Yours [cover title]. Radio, Television Institute of Chicago](/pictures/thumb/3728755_1.jpg?v=1557936756)
Large and rather glamorous self-promotional item for the Radio and Television Institute of Chicago, here pitching to men looking to enter into the repair field... Read More about Radio’s Future and Yours [cover title
![Chicago May Her Story. [Signed by the author and her defense attorney who wrote the foreword]....](/pictures/thumb/3728723_1.jpg?v=1557940084)
Superb Association Copy. Autobiographical memoir of Irish-American woman criminal May Churchill Sharpe, born Mary Anne Duignan (1871–1929), better known as “Chicago May” or “The Queen..... Read More about Chicago May Her Story. [Signed by the author and her defense attorney who wrote the foreword
![Chicago:] Official Program, 21st Annual National Convention, The American Legion, Chicago,...](/pictures/thumb/3728714_1.jpg?v=1557936742)
Official illustrated program of the 1939 annual convention of the patriotic military veterans’ organization, The American Legion. Held in Chicago, the convention brochure by artist... Read More about Chicago:] Official Program, 21st Annual National Convention, The American Legion, Chicago,...
C.1911 Leather manufacturer’s trade catalog offering belting, lacing, straps, packings, frictions, and gears for industrial use. The Chicago-based company specialized in mechanical leather goods such..... Read More about The Chicago Rawhide Manufacturing Co. Tanners and Manufacturers of Mechanical Leathers and...
Electrical supply trade catalog from the Central Electric Company whose offices and showrooms were located in Chicago. Extremely well illustrated with their inventory of electrical... Read More about General Catalogue Number 39. Electrical Supplies. Central Electric Company
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 about The Black Metropolis. A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City
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 about Bulletin No. 7. Burgess Batteries
Autobiography from this Iowa native African-American writing of her early life in North Dakota, her college degree achievement, and then her removal to Chicago during... Read More about American Daughter
![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 about Women Sculptors & Race] Malvina Hoffman
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 about Little Caesar
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 about Storkline. Infant and Juvenile Furniture. Baby Carriages. Catalog No 32. 1940
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 about 1871 Autograph Letter Signed; Anna M. Bartlett’s Eyewitness account of the Great Chicago Fire...
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 about Original 1897 Tammany Tiger Political Cartoon by F.K. Houston
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 about U. S. Army Air Forces. Technical Training Command. Chicago School of Aircraft Instruments....
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 about Salesman’s Sample Book:] Footprints of Four Centuries, The Story of the American People
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 about 1855–1881 Manuscript Account Book owned by Swedish-American, carpenter and cabinetmaker, Olof...
