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Featuring 150 images from the Chicago History Museum’s Chicago Sun-Times collection, Millions of Moments is a first look at highlights from five million negatives spanning the 1940s to the early 2000s—one of the largest newspaper photograph collections ever acquired by an American museum.
7 lis 2023 · To find relevant images of clothing in the Digital collections or through our main image database, try one or more of these search strategies: • Search by year, decade (1887 or 1770) • Search by the designer (Halston, Bes-Ben)
27 kwi 2017 · In April 1941, Russell Lee and Edwin Rosskam arrived in Chicago, Illinois. Employed as photographers on the Farm Security Administration’s mission to record how people lived and worked throughout the United States, Russell and Rosskam had been deployed to what the Government termed the “black belt”. Their photos show us staff on the ...
With more than 50,000 costume and textile artifacts, the Chicago History Museum’s collection is one of the nation’s premier clothing and fashion collections. The collection spans the breadth of Chicago's history and is particularly strong in materials from the late 19th century to the present.
These Chicago images from the turn of the century to the 1960’s illustrate beautiful lakefront and river scenes, street scenes and architectural masterpieces. Photographs are available for purchase – call or email to inquire about pricing.
15 kwi 2019 · “Silver Screen to Mainstream: American Fashion in the 1930s and 40s”, the Chicago History Museum’s newest exhibit, showcases fashions from Paris, New York, Chicago, and Hollywood, and tracks how...
12 sie 2022 · Where-to-buy in Chicago; buyers' directory: A handy classified directory for department, dry goods, general store, ready-to-wear and millinery buyers (1926) This directory published in the fall of 1926 offers a snapshot of clothing retail in Chicago in the 1920s.
