Photographs from the Chicago Daily News,
1902-1933
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In American
Memory
Other Large Collections of Photographs with
Broad Coverage
- America from the
Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA and OWI, ca.
1935-1945
- The images in the Farm Security Administration-Office of War
Information Collection are among the most famous documentary
photographs ever produced. Created by a group of U.S. government
photographers, the images show Americans in every part of
the nation. In the early years, the project emphasized rural life and the
negative impact of the Great Depression, farm
mechanization, and the Dust Bowl. In later years, the photographers
turned their attention to the mobilization effort for World War
II. The core of the collection consists of about 164,000 black-and-white
photographs.
- Architecture and
Interior Design for 20th Century America: Photographs by Samuel Gottscho
and William Schleisner , 1935-1955
- The Gottscho-Schleisner Collection is comprised of over 29,000 images
primarily of architectural subjects, including interiors and exteriors of
homes, stores, offices, factories, historic buildings, and other
structures. Subjects are concentrated chiefly in the northeastern United
States, especially the New York City area, and Florida. Included are the
homes of notable Americans, such as Raymond Loewy, and of several U.S.
presidents, as well as color images of the 1939-40 New York World's Fair.
Many of the photographs were commissioned by architects, designers,
owners and architectural publications, and document important
achievements in American 20th-century architecture and interior design.
- History
of the American West, 1860-1920: Photographs from the Collection of the
Denver Public Library
- Over 30,000 photographs, drawn from the holdings of the Western
History and Genealogy Department at Denver Public Library,
illuminate many aspects of the history of the American West. Most of the
photographs were taken between 1860 and 1920. They
illustrate Colorado towns and landscape, document the place of mining in
the history of Colorado and the West, and show the
lives of Native Americans from more than forty tribes living west of the
Mississippi River. Also included are World War II
photographs of the 10th Mountain Division, ski troops based in Colorado
who saw action in Italy.
- The
South Texas Border, 1900-1920: Photographs from the Robert Runyon
Collection
- The Robert Runyon Photograph Collection of the South Texas Border
Area, a collection of over 8,000 items, is a unique visual
resource documenting the Lower Rio Grande Valley during the early 1900s.
Donated by the Runyon family to the Center for
American History in 1986, it includes glass negatives, lantern slides,
nitrate negatives, prints, and postcards, representing the life's
work of commercial photographer Robert Runyon (1881-1968), a longtime
resident of South Texas. His photographs document
the history and development of South Texas and the border, including the
Mexican Revolution, the U.S. military presence at Fort
Brown and along the border prior to and during World War I, and the
growth and development of the Rio Grande Valley.
- Touring
Turn-of-the-Century America: Photographs from the Detroit Publishing
Company, 1880 - 1920
- This collection of photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company
Collection includes over 25,000 glass negatives and
transparencies as well as about 300 color photolithograph prints, mostly
of the eastern United States. The collection includes the
work of a number of photographers, one of whom was the well known
photographer William Henry Jackson.
A small group within the larger collection includes about 900 Mammoth
Plate Photographs taken by William Henry Jackson along
several railroad lines in the United States and Mexico in the 1880s and
1890s.
- Washington
as It Was: Photographs by Theodor Horydczak, 1923-1959
- Spanning from the mid 1920s through the 1950s, the Theodor Horydczak
collection (about 14,350 photographs online) documents the architecture
and social life of the Washington metropolitan area in the 1920s, 1930s,
and 1940s, including exteriors and interiors of commercial, residential,
and government buildings, as well as street scenes and views of
neighborhoods. A number of Washington events and activities, such as the
1932 Bonus Army encampment, the 1933 World Series, and World War II
preparedness campaigns, are also depicted.
Other Collections Featuring Chicago
-
Chicago Anarchists on Trial: Evidence from the Haymarket Affair,
1886-1887
- This collection showcases more than 3,800 images of original
manuscripts, broadsides, photographs, prints and artifacts relating to the
Haymarket Affair. The violent confrontation between Chicago police and
labor protesters in 1886 proved to be a pivotal setback in the struggle
for American workers' rights. These materials pertain to: the May 4, 1886
meeting and bombing; to the trial, conviction and subsequent appeals of
those accused of inciting the bombing; and to the execution of four of the
convicted and the later pardon of the remaining defendants.
- American
Landscape and Architectural Design, 1850-1920: a Study Collection from the
Harvard Graduate School of Design
- This collection of approximately 2,800 lantern
slides represents an historical view of American buildings and landscapes
built during the period 1850-1920. It represents the work of Harvard
faculty, such as Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., Bremer W. Pond, and James
Sturgis Pray, as well as that of prominent landscape architects
throughout the country. The collection offers views of cities, specific
buildings, parks, estates and gardens. Use the State Index to select
images of Chicago
- Motion
Pictures in American Memory
- Several of the collections of early motion pictures include films
of Chicago, including:
- Inventing
Entertainment: the Early Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the
Edison Companies
- This site features 341 motion pictures, 81 disc
sound recordings, and other related materials, such as photographs and
original magazine articles. Cylinder sound recordings will be added to
this site in the near future. In addition, histories are given of
Edison's involvement with motion pictures and sound recordings, as well
as a special page focusing on the life of the great inventor.
- Theodore
Roosevelt: His Life and Times on Film
- Theodore Roosevelt was the first U.S. president
to have his career and life chronicled on a large scale by motion picture
companies. This presentation features 104 films which record events in
Roosevelt's life from the Spanish-American War in 1898 to his death in
1919.
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