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[Photograph 2012.201.B0223.0170]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "confronted with the problem of decorating the city for two political conventions, Chicago has turned to George Washington as the predominating symbol in a decorating scheme designed to please Republicans and Democrats alike. This photo shows a workman holding a large picture of the first president before scores of them were placed on lamp and trolley posts near the Chicago Stadium."
Date: June 3, 1932
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0223.0120]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The Sauganash, the finest hotel in Chicago in 1834, was the first in the century of progress in hotels that is climaxed in 1934 in the Stevens."
Date: May 2, 1934
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0134.0275]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Below a huge avalanche of Christmas packages, these clerks in Chicago's big main postoffice work steadily on, doing their parts in distribution million s of parcels during the holiday rush."
Date: 1937
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0223.0131]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "With Chicago's towering skyscrapers as a backdrop, the buildings of Chicago's 1933 World's Fair- A Century Of Progress Exposition- rise on the shores of Lake Michigan."
Date: March 13, 1938
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0329]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Chicago welcomed two of the high ecclesiastics who arrived for the silver jubilee feting of the City's Ranking prince of the Catholic Church--George Cardinal Mundelein."
Date: November 19, 1934
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0223.0086]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The Chicago board of trade recently reported its heaviest day of trading since November 20, 1931 .This view of the floor was taking during the heavy trading that has marked all commodity and stock markets of late."
Date: August 11, 1932
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0223.0112]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Architects drawing of the new $21,000,000 Chicago Post Office, which was approved by government officials in Washington, Jan. 24."
Date: January 24, 1931
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0244.0338]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Two members of the Cook County's Coroner's office and a federal agent are shown here as they conducted the inquest into the death of John Dillinger , outlaw slain by government operatives in Chicago July 23."
Date: July 23, 1934
Creator: Wir
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0242.0300]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "ISAAC COSTNER, WHO SPEAKS WITH A SOUTHERN DRAWL, TESTIFIED IN CHICAGO FEB. 19 THAT HE PARTICIPATED IN THE KIDNAPPING OF JOHN FACTOR, CHICAGO SPECULATOR, AND NAMED ROGER TOUHY AND TOW OTHERS AS PART OF THE GANG."
Date: February 19, 1934
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0223.0173]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "capacity throng of 25,000 people gathered in the Chicago stadium, described as the 'World's Greatest Convention Hall,' during a recent political rally, and which presents a typical view of how delegates form all over the country will pack the vast new auditorium during sessions of the 1932 Republican National Convention."
Date: December 15, 1931
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0223.0165]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "This picture of the Chicago stadium was made June 11 after most of the arena sears for delegates were put in place. This wide view gives the proportions of the mighty hall that is expected to be jammed with more than 25,000 during the convection that opens June 14."
Date: June 13, 1932
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0223.0171]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "located on the city's near west side, a ten minute ride from the 'heart' of the downtown district, where Republican leaders from all over he country will gather during the National Convention in 1932."
Date: December 15, 1931
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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