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Florence Kelley
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Bird’s eye view of “Tall Buildings”, Chicago, IL. Source: ICHi-30045. Chicago History Museum. Reproduction of photograph, photographer - J. W. Taylor. Date: 1895.
Interior of Board of Trade, the pit; Chicago, IL. Source: ICHi-18146. Chicago History Museum. Reproduction of photograph, photographer unknown. Date: 1896.
Image of men walking on the partially frozen ice of Lake Michigan, with a steamship or tugboat in the background in Chicago, Illinois. DN-0001833, Chicago Daily News negatives collection, Chicago History Museum.
Image of job seekers, men standing in front of the Chicago Daily News building, looking at newspapers with pedestrians walking nearby. The building was located at 15 North Wells Street (formerly 123 Fifth Avenue) in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois. DN-0051332, Chicago Daily News negatives collection, Chicago History Museum.
Nationalities Map No. 1 - Polk Street to Twelfth, Halsted Street to Jefferson, Chicago. From Hull-House Maps and Papers, published in 1895.
Looking south, Administration Building from Wooded Isle Bridge; World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago, IL. Source: ICHi-25087. Chicago History Museum. Reproduction of photographic print.
On 24 April 2013, Rana Plaza, an eight-story commercial building, collapsed in Savar, a sub-district in the Greater Dhaka Area, the capital of Bangladesh. The search for the dead ended on 13 May with a death toll of 1,129. Approximately 2,515 injured people were rescued from the building alive. Source: Wikimedia Creative Commons.
Children digging with pick axes on a Chicago street; Chicago, IL. Source: ICHi-52108. Chicago History Museum. Reproduction of photographic print, photographer unknown.
Post-mastoiditis surgical patients (young children) at Cook County Contagion Hospital; Chicago, IL (G1986:484). Source: ICHi-26997. Chicago History Museum.
Image of a large group of children standing under showers over the street in Chicago, Illinois. Source: DN-0076144, Chicago Daily News negatives collection, Chicago History Museum.
Front cover of The Left-Handed Marriage: Stories
Photo of Leigh Buchanan Bienen, author, circa 2001
The award-winning story,"My Life as a West African Gray Parrot," is a world-weary, cynical account of life and lost affections, an aging parrot notes his latest owner's growing negligence and recalls past relationships and travails
In "The Circus Comes to Kampala" the cultural mixture of a seedy gypsy circus in politically turbulent Kampala enables insights into anonymity and emotional confusion
"We Are All Africans" is a gruelling tale of the physical and psychological collapse of W, headstrong and determined to summit a peak with a group of shows him no pity.
"Technician," in which an ordinary, unemployed Trenton man is hired a state executioner
Back cover of The Left-Handed Marriage: Stories
Nathan Leopold was considered the mastermind behind the kidnapping and murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks in Chicago, Illinois, in 1924
Richard Albert Loeb was also convicted of the murder, and was himself murdered in the Joliet State Penitentiary 12 years later.
Clarence Darrow acted as lead counsel for their defense, and spared them both from execution
The Scottsboro Boys were nine African American teenagers and young men, ages 13 to 20, accused in Alabama of raping two white women in 1931
Bruno Richard Hauptmann was convicted of the abduction and murder of the 20-month-old son of Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Alger Hiss was an American government official accused and convicted of spying for the Soviet Union in the Cold War Era
O.J. Simpson was found not guilty in the criminal case of murdering Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ron Goldman in 1994, but guilty in the civil case.
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