Color lithograph advertising Emerson's Megatherian Minstrels, which featured performer Billy Emerson (pictured here). Billy Emerson (Edmund) was born in Belfast, Ireland in 1846 and died in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1902. Emerson's Megatherian...
Color lithograph advertising Emerson's Megatherian Minstrels, which featured performer Billy Emerson and were managed by Richard M. Hooley (pictured here). Hooley was born in Ballina, County Mayo, Ireland in 1822 and died in Chicago in 1893. The...
Group of men in military uniforms and a woman standing in front of airplanes, plus the woman and men on a stage or at dining tables in a large banquet room.
Front entrance of the Orpheum movie theater at 320 West Jefferson Street. Above the entrance are signs for "Roy Rogers Wall Street Cowboy" and "Valley of the Giants." Pictures are on either side of the ticket counter, as well as...
Seven-member band set up behind a low stone wall. The sign below them reads "Tango." The band members were tuxedos. Their instruments include a piano, drums, saxophone, and guitar or banjo.
Front of the Loews movie theater at night from across the street. The sign advertises the world premiere of "One Million B.C." starring Victor Mature. "Vic Mature" and "One Million BC" are also in lights above the...
Piers & wharves; Boats; Monuments & memorials; Parks; Bridges; Field Museum of Natural History; Automobiles; Buses; Beaches; Greenhouses; University of Chicago--Buildings
Souvenir folder of postcards from Chicago, Illinois. Includes images from the various parks in Chicago: the Grant Monument and Lincoln Monument in Lincoln Park; pedestrians and drivers by the lake shore at Lincoln Park; the Outer Harbor and...
