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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
![[Women Sculptors & Race] Malvina Hoffman. N. A. Malvina Hoffman, 1885–1966.](/pictures/thumb/3726735_1.jpg?v=1540246014)
![[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)
![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)
![[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)