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[Photograph 2012.201.B0424B.0557]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Every known gang rendezvous in Chicago and the country towns of Cook County is being spectacularly raided following the cold-blooded slaying of Asst. State's Attorney William H. McSwiggin of Chicago and two fo his companions."
Date: April 29, 1926
Creator: Pacific and Atlantic Photos, Incorporated
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0373.0371]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Anne E. Livingstone with her lawyer, Benjamin Ehrlich, preparing for breach of promise suit against former beau and 61-year-old Chicago millionaire Franklin Hardinge. Livingston, 29, sued for $250,000, and jury awarded $25,000."
Date: November 20, 1928
Creator: Pacific and Atlantic Photos, Incorporated
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0373.0370]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Ann Livingston being congratulated by her lawyers, jury, and bailiffs immediately after verdict in breach of promise suit was announced. Jury in Chicago returned $25,000 in her favor in suit against Franklin S. Hardinge, millionaire oil burner manufacturer of Chicago."
Date: July 6, 1929
Creator: Pacific and Atlantic Photos, Incorporated
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0223.0150]

Description: Photograph taken for a story in the Chicago Bureau newspaper. Caption: "This excellent air view of Chicago's near north side district shows the numerous new skyscrapers which have been erected in record boom of development and inserted in foreground of photo. (at left) is architect's design for $30,000,000 Merchandise Mart, which is to be built on the new River Drive between Wells and Orleans Streets."
Date: May 6, 1928
Creator: Pacific and Atlantic Photos, Incorporated
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0223.0182]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Chicago's latest skyscraper, the Tribune Tower, was formally opened to the public, today July 6th. This wonderful building, which is the last word in Gothic architecture, has been under construction for over two years, and crowns a competition in which architects in twenty two countries engaged, the leading participants receiving prizes aggregating $100,000. Tribune Tower and site cost eight and one half millio… more
Date: July 6, 1925
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0223.0159]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The new $20,000,000 home of the Chicago Civic Opera, will be formerly opened tonight, Nov. 4. It is the world's largest and finest Opera House."
Date: November 4, 1929
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0223.0160]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "An exterior view of the new Chicago Civic Opera House, constructed at cast of 20,000000, which will be formally opened tonight, Nov. 4th, with first opera performance of the 1929-30 Season."
Date: November 4, 1929
Creator: Pacific and Atlantic Photos, Incorporated
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[2012.201.B0223.0179]

Description: Photograph of a downtown street lined by tall buildings in Chicago, Illinois, used by a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. There are automobiles and cable cars in the street as well as pedestrians walking on the sidewalks. Caption: "Chicago's ban on parking in the 'loop', the heart of the city, was announced a complete success at the close of the first day's test."
Date: January 10, 1928
Creator: Associated Press
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0223.0174]

Description: Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Birds glide lazily over the entry pens of Chicago's Stock Yards, once the nation's largest market place for meat animals."
Date: December 12, 1920
Creator: Associated Press
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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