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This page serves as a
gateway to various resources on the Web for understanding and
investigating local history. These sites are listed in alphabetical
order.
- Photographs from the Chicago Daily News
(1902-1933)
- Sources from the
American Memory Project, the Library of Congress
- "This
collection 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
about twenty percent of the images in the collection were published in the
newspaper. Most of the photographs were taken in Chicago, Illinois, or in
nearby towns, parks, or athletic fields. In addition to many Chicagoans, the
images include politicians, actors, and other prominent people who stopped in
Chicago during their travels and individual athletes and sports teams who came
to Chicago. Also included are photographs illustrating the operations of the
Chicago Daily News itself and pictures taken on occasional out-of-town trips by
the Daily News's photographers to important events, such as the inauguration of
presidents in Washington, D.C." The collection is searchable by keyword,
subject, and name.
- Link:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/ichihtml/cdnhome.html
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- The Great
Chicago Fire
- Sources from the Chicago Historical Society
- There
are two ways to experience the Great Chicago Fire through this website. One is
to examine contemporary documents. The other is to examine the ways in which
the Great Chicago Fire has been remembered. Each section is divided into
"essays," "galleries," and "libraries." The essays provide historical context.
The galleries provide a wide variety of primary sources. The library provides
both primary and secondary sources for further study.
- Link:
http://www.chicagohistory.org/fire/index.html
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- Haymarket
Affair Digital Collection
- Sources from the Chicago Historical Society
- "The
Chicago Historical Society has created this digital collection to provide
on-line access to its primary source materials relating to the Haymarket
Affair, a controversial moment in Chicago's past and a pivotal event in the
history of the American labor movement." The sources are provided with a
"minimum of interpretive information." For those interested in an "interpretive
web site," Northwestern University in cooperation with CHS has developed "The Dramas of
Haymarket" based on the materials in this collection.
- Link:
http://www.chicagohs.org/hadc/index.html
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