Photo Gallery - Loop

   
 
Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) picketers,
"No Wage Control Roll Back Prices," (c. 1970s)
(Chicago History Museum, ICHi-39912)
 

   
 
Garden of the Monroe Exchange of the Chicago Telephone Company, 22 South
Sangamon Street, 1910. (Chicago History Museum, ICHi-14439)
 

   
 
Construction of the Marina City Towers, 300 North State Street, in 1961. Note the "WCFL" sign on the side of the tower on the right.
(Chicago History Museum, HB-27349-A)
 

     
 
Chicago Teachers' Union Demonstration near Grant Park, c. 1930s.
(Chicago History Museum, ICHi-20857).
   

   
 
July 30, 1914, image of Mrs. George Welles, Miss L. Engle, and Mrs. George Soden, suffragettes. They are at the Kalo Shop, where they melted down silver objects that had been contributed in the Self Denial drive to raise money for suffrage. (Chicago History Museum, DN-0063262).
 

   
 
Image of the tugboat Kenosha, rescuing survivors from the hull of the overturned Eastland steamer in the Chicago River, near Clark and LaSalle Avenue, on July 24, 1915.
(Chicago History Musuem, DN-0064936)
 

   
 
Elevated view of the overturned Eastland steamer in the Chicago River in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois. Survivors are standing on its hull. Five smaller boats of different types are circled around the hull and three more are approaching to attempt to rescue the survivors.
(Chicago History Museum, DN-0064935)
 

   
 
Women Fur Workers on Strike, (c. 1940). (Chicago History Museum, ICHi-39914)
 

   
 
This illustration shows crowds of Chicagoans who had been left hungry after the Chicago Fire of 1871, demanding relief and food at the offices of the Relief and Aid Society, LaSalle Street and Kinzie Avenue, 1872. (Chicago History Museum, Ready Print - Demonstrations)
 

   
 
Parade pictured at Madison and Wells Streets, January 1939. The parade included members of the Newspaper Guilds on strike against the Hearst-owned Chicago Herald Examiner." (Chicago History Museum, ICHi-05955
 

   
 
Women and men at work in a garment sweatshop at 132 Maxwell Street, 1905. (Chicago History Museum, DN-0002416)
 

   
 
McVicker's Theater, 25 West Madison Street, February 23, 1903.
(Chicago History Museum, DN-0000483)
 

   
 
Hoboes under Michigan Avenue, 1930. (Chicago History Museum, DN-0093221)
 

 

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