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Victor Hammer created this keepsake specimen for “the Chicago people” (i.e., the Society of Typographic Arts) in 1946 as thanks to the society’s members for funding the completion and casting of his American Uncial typeface.
May 9, 2013
In some ways this image of Congressman Frank Annunzio, Richard J. Daley and Pat Nixon marching in a 1972 parade in Chicago is iconographic political history.
May 1, 2013
Vintage photographs were so much cooler in the pre-Instagram era. Look how marvelously red-hued this slide has become with age.
April 24, 2013
Maps are great candidates for digital presentation. For one, say you have a large, table-sized, map – digitize it and presto! now it’s a manageable size. Then digitization enables stepwise magnification at the clicks of a mouse button. Plus maps are beautiful.
April 17, 2013
This image connects the lives of three men, with a punchline that’s more tragic than comic.
April 10, 2013
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April 5, 2013
H.E. Nutt taught music teachers. He developed curricula for VanderCook in the early days of instrumental music education. The papers in this collection exude Nutt’s enthusiasm for his topic, one could even say he was nuts about it (WAH-wah).
April 3, 2013
As a non-native Illinoisan, the Daley family mystique is a bit lost on me. It becomes readily apparent, however, that the politically accomplished men overshadow the women of the family, who tend toward the obscurity of private life rather than the limelight of public service.
March 25, 2013
Pop culture pop quiz!
Q: What do Mr. Mike Brady, Mr. Spock, the Wicked Witch of the West, and Hawkeye Pierce have in common?
A: You guessed it! The actors who portrayed those iconic characters from television and film all performed at The Little Theatre on the Square in Sullivan, Illinois. Browse through the collection, and you might also encounter Ethel Mertz, Andy Hardy, Dr. David Banner, Kookie, Lisa Miller Hughes Eldridge Shea Colman McColl Mitchell Grimaldi Chedwyn, Todd Tomorrow, and Carmine Ragusa among other familiar faces.
Robert Reed treaded the boards as an architect-turned-painter who dallies with a prostitute in Hong Kong in the 1966 production of The World of Suzie Wong. Leonard Nimoy, if you can believe it, played Randle Patrick McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest in 1974, the year before the Oscar-winning film starring Jack Nicholson was released. In 1961, Margaret Hamilton starred as Dolly Bloomer—an aunt who encourages her rebellious niece in the wearing of a certain style of undergarment—in Bloomer Girl.
March 6, 2013
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