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ChicagoBookBabe has posted a new entry on: Chicago History: The Journal of an Amateur Historian
An UnCommon History Site
One of the reasons I began this blog was to provide a portal site with links to relevant Internet pages pertaining to Chicago history. Since Chicago history is also American history, I include websites that help to place Chicago in the broader contex
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ChicagoBookBabe has posted a new entry on: Chicago History: The Journal of an Amateur Historian
An Early Beauty Entrepreneur: Who Was That Girl?
Is anyone familiar with Lucille Young? The product? I ran across this picture on the Reggie's Victorian Trade Card Album website (interesting site, I might add). What caught my eye was the address of the manufacturer/supplier: 2703 South Park Ave., C
- September 3rd, 2008
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ChicagoBookBabe has posted a new entry on: Chicago History: The Journal of an Amateur Historian
New CHM Blog in the History Hood
File this one under "What took you so long?" The Chicago History Museum has a new blog. It's more marketing and PR for the museum exhibits than history, but that may be their sole purpose. And, there is nothing wrong with that, I suppose. I'm person
- September 1st, 2008
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ChicagoBookBabe has posted a new entry on: Chicago History: The Journal of an Amateur Historian
The Chicagoan's First Cover Artist: Boris Riedel
On June 14, 1926, curious Chicago residents scanning the racks of local newsstands might have noticed a newcomer. Enclosing only thirty-two pages, with just 5,900 copies available, the magazine’s striking three-color cover bore the signature of an
- August 29th, 2008
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ChicagoBookBabe has posted a new entry on: Chicago History: The Journal of an Amateur Historian
The Pineapple Primary, FLW Studio Tour, the Uptown and some Good Reads
It's Friday and for me, it is the beginning of my "work week." I work part time Friday through Monday. While the rest of you are visiting the Chicago History Museum, reading all the recently released books on Chicago history or taking a walking tour
- August 28th, 2008
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ChicagoBookBabe has posted a new entry on: Chicago History: The Journal of an Amateur Historian
Reciprocity: When You're Good to Mama...
One of the great rewards of blogging is the opportunity to meet writers around the world and read their work. While our specific topics may differ, we share a passion for our subjects and hold a strong desire to share it with others. While I was o
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ChicagoBookBabe has added Hippie Couture to their favorite blogs.
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ChicagoBookBabe has added Women of History to their favorite blogs.
Women of History
Biographies of fascinating women who have graced the pages of history, and an eclectic series of articles pertaining to women and history. - August 27th, 2008
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ChicagoBookBabe has posted a new entry on: Chicago History: The Journal of an Amateur Historian
Murder at Taliesan PostScript; FLW on Stage and in Song
I've been a bit surprised at the number of people who have contacted me, or to whom I've mentioned the Taliesan murders, who have been unfamiliar with the event. Perhaps I shouldn't be. William R. Drennan notes in Death in a Prairie House: Frank Lloy
- August 26th, 2008
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ChicagoBookBabe has bookmarked the video Century of Progress Exposition #2 1933.
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ChicagoBookBabe has bookmarked the video PrimeViste.com - River Views of Chicago Architecture.
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ChicagoBookBabe has bookmarked the video Sweet Home Chicago.
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ChicagoBookBabe has bookmarked the video Behind The Presidency: Theodore Roosevelt Part 2.
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ChicagoBookBabe has bookmarked the video So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright.
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ChicagoBookBabe has bookmarked the video Haymarket Martyrs--Origins of International Workers Day Pt 3.
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ChicagoBookBabe has bookmarked the video Extraordinary American Woman - Jane Addams.
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ChicagoBookBabe has bookmarked the video Metro History Fair: Columbian Exposition.
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ChicagoBookBabe has bookmarked the video After the Ball is over ...Many the heart is aching... 1892.
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ChicagoBookBabe has bookmarked the video 1893 Chicago World's Fair.
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ChicagoBookBabe has posted a new entry on: Chicago History: The Journal of an Amateur Historian
Lost But No Longer Forgotten: The Chicagoan
Yes, I admit it. I had never heard of The Chicagoan until I stumbled on the University of Chicago Press's announcement of the November, 2008 release of Neil Harris' book, The Chicagoan: A Lost Magazine of the Jazz Age. It seems I'm not alone. Harris
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ChicagoBookBabe has bookmarked the video Karen Abbot discusses Sin in the Second City.
- August 25th, 2008
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ChicagoBookBabe has bookmarked the video Haymarket Martyrs--Origin of International Workers Day Pt 1.
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ChicagoBookBabe has bookmarked the video Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb Documentary Project.
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ChicagoBookBabe has added Chicago Hot Blog to their favorite blogs.
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ChicagoBookBabe has bookmarked the video Charlie Rose - Chicago Architecture Panel.
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ChicagoBookBabe has posted a new entry on: Chicago History: The Journal of an Amateur Historian
The Library of Louis H. Sullivan
"A man's library is a sort of harem." - Ralph Waldo Emerson Louis H. Sullivan (1856-1924) [Sullivan] read a great deal. The books in his library reveal some rather esoteric interests. There were several books on Japan and Japanese art, and he pos
- August 24th, 2008
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ChicagoBookBabe has bookmarked the video FRANK'S HOME.
- August 22nd, 2008
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ChicagoBookBabe has posted a new entry on: Chicago History: The Journal of an Amateur Historian
Gangs, Capone, Murder, OH MY!
The Digitized Book of the Week from the Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is Chicago Gang Wars in Pictures: X Marks the Spot (c1930])(Internet Archive location here.)Those rough and tumble gangland scamps are not really my cup
- August 21st, 2008
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ChicagoBookBabe has posted a new entry on: Chicago History: The Journal of an Amateur Historian
New Book on Leopold and Loeb Released
The nice people at HarperCollins Publishing recently sent me a review copy of For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Chicago. The complicated, brutal and senseless murder of young Bobby Franks by two privileged students shoc
- August 20th, 2008
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ChicagoBookBabe has bookmarked the video Horses of the White City Part 3.
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ChicagoBookBabe has posted a new entry on: Chicago History: The Journal of an Amateur Historian
The Faces of 1892 Chicago
In placing this collection of Character Studies before the public I hope that it will meet with the recognition and hearty appreciation of such as have daily and yearly noted these types in the crowded streets of our American cities. To collect thes
- August 17th, 2008
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ChicagoBookBabe has bookmarked the video And They Came To Chicago: The Italian American Legacy.
- August 16th, 2008
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ChicagoBookBabe has bookmarked the video Century of Progress Exposition #1 1933.
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ChicagoBookBabe has bookmarked the video Century of Progress Exhibition #3 1933.
- August 15th, 2008
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ChicagoBookBabe has bookmarked the video Behind The Presidency: Theodore Roosevelt Part 1.
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ChicagoBookBabe has posted a new entry on: Chicago History: The Journal of an Amateur Historian
Murder at Taliesin
On August 15, 1914 Mamah Borthwick Cheney, her two young children, Martha aged 9 and John aged 11, and four workmen were brutally murdered at Taliesin, the Wisconsin home that Frank Lloyd Wright had built for himself and Mamah. Julian Carlton, a 30-y
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ChicagoBookBabe has bookmarked the video Leigh Bienen on Homicide.
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ChicagoBookBabe has bookmarked the video Horses of the White City Part 1.
- August 14th, 2008
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ChicagoBookBabe has posted a new entry on: Chicago History: The Journal of an Amateur Historian
Chicago History Family Mysteries: The Barretts
Not long ago, I received an email from a Florida reader, John Barrett, hoping to unravel some family mysteries. One concerns his mother’s career as a jazz singer and includes a murder at a Chicago jazz club. The other mystery centers around a drawi
- August 13th, 2008
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ChicagoBookBabe has bookmarked the video Ovation TV | Frank Lloyd Wright: Murder, Myth and Modernism.
- July 23rd, 2008
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ChicagoBookBabe has bookmarked the video Horses of the White City Part 2.
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ChicagoBookBabe has bookmarked the video Haymarket Martyrs--Origins of International Workers Day Pt 2.
- July 17th, 2008
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ChicagoBookBabe has posted a new entry on: Chicago History: The Journal of an Amateur Historian
Just Wright for Summer Reading
There's no shortage of books on Frank Lloyd Wright, but I wanted to bring to your attention two fairly new releases. I recently watched Ken Burns' excellent biography of Wright so the architect has been in my reading radar of late. Loving Frank is
