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Vintage postcard showing the original Potter Palmer mansion on Chicago's North Side.

Newspaper article describing the landmarks resolution, and a brief history of Pullman.

Set of 5 yellow tickets for Jennie Curtis Strike Centennial Dance event on Saturday, July 23rd, 6:30 to 11:30 p.m.. Presented by the Pullman Civic Organization and held at 614 E. 113th St. Chicago. Do…

Article from Chicago Tribune on the Organic Theater to stage musical drama on Pullman strike.

Article from The Chicago Reader about the men who move the steel industry products through the Calumet area harbors and the lake.

Book discusses the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the Haymarket bombing of 1886, and the making and unmaking of the model town of Pullman.

One of a series of articles in this issue of Calumet Heritage about Chicago's steel industry and the attempted rescue of the Acme Steel Co. Chicago Coke Plant at 11236 S. Torrence Ave.

Erecting Shop c 1950 seems to have been used for painting of Pullman Cars according to 1947 map.

Photocopy of letterhead (?) from four Chicago companies.

Holiday shed decoraded for a visit with Santa. Number 29781 on edge

Article from unknown newspaper, describes lineup for upcoming football game, Thanksgiving 1940.

Hardcover book, 308 pages, non-fiction, with illustrations, set in the Chicago Stock Yards.

Photo postcard of streetscape, with pedestrian traffic. Lady in period attire, with parasol.

Biography of John W.E. Thomas. Book explains the dynamics of African American politics in post-Civil War Chicago.

Union Foundry Buildings. Listed on 1947 map as Steel Cabinet Machine Dept, Steel Cabinet Dept, Stores Dept, Paint Dept.

Collection of historic and original aerial photographs of Chicago.

2-page article from the "Calumet Index" October 18, 1972. Describes passage of Chicago ordinance naming Pullman a landmark district.

Stamp/sticker advertising Spring Market Week in Chicago Feb. 5th to Feb. 10th, at the Stevens Hotel. The Stevens Hotel opened in 1927 and was, at the time, the largest hotel in the world. It later bec…

A later factory building (non-Beman) with sign stating "The Pullman Press, Stationary & Printing, Office - General Stationary".

116-page, hardcover book, reprinted by... "The Aetna Insurance Company upon the occasion of 100 years of enviable service to Chicago and Cook County". Showing list of businesses in Chicago in 1844.