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Chicago Anarchists on Trial: Evidence from the Haymarket Affair, 1886-1887
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Abstract: showcases more than 3,800 images of original manuscripts, broadsides, photographs, prints, and artifacts relating to the violent 1886 confrontation between Chicago police and labor protesters that was a pivotal setback in the struggle for American workers' rights.
Chicago's Black Metropolis: Understanding History through a Historic Place
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Abstract: is a curriculum-oriented site concentrating on the area, south of the main business district, where blacks lived in Chicago, Illinois. The site shows photos and maps of historic buildings in the area and gives suggestions for student assignments.
Chicago's Columbus Park: The Prairie Idealized
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Abstract: presents the story of Jens Jensen, who immigrated from Denmark to the U.S. in the 1880s, took a job as a Chicago street sweeper, was promoted to gardener, and rose to renown as a landscape architect. Jensen aimed to portray the soul of the landscape and developed the Prairie style, incorporating regional ... More »
Imaging the City: The Place of Media in City Design and Development, Fall 1998
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Abstract: Kevin Lynch's landmark volume, The Image of the City (1960), emphasized the perceptual characteristics of the urban environment, stressing the ways that individuals mentally organize their own sensory experience of cities. Increasingly, however, city imaging is supplemented and constructed by exposure ... More »
Photographs from the Chicago Daily News: 1902-1933
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Abstract: comprises over 55,000 images of urban life captured on glass plate negatives between 1902 and 1933 by photographers employed by the Chicago Daily News, then one of Chicago's leading newspapers. The photographs illustrate the enormous variety of topics and events covered in the newspaper, although only ... More »
The World's Congress of Representative Women
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Abstract: The World's Congress of Representative Women. Chicago: Rand McNally, 1894
Theory of City Form, Spring 2004
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Abstract: Theories about cities and the form that settlements should take will be discussed. Attempts will be made at a distinction between descriptive and normative theory, by examining examples of various theories of city form over time. The class will concentrate on the origins of the modern city and theories ... More »
Twenty years at Hull-House, with autobiographical notes
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Abstract: Twenty years at Hull-House, with autobiographical notes