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From Wall Street Journal -- How a Couture Pioneer Changed Fashion @EBONY Magazine #ebonyfashionfair #fashion #couture

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From Time Out Chicago -- Ebony Fashion Fair exhibition coming to Chicago History Museum @EBONY Magazine #ebonyfashionfair #fashion #couture

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View of the Chicago skyline from Lake Michigan, undated.  Photograph from Hedrich-Blessing. HB-SN825-N.

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Buckminster Fuller poses at the wheel of his car, Dymaxion Car Number One, with another man in the driver’s seat at the Century of Progress, c. 1933. Photograph from Hedrich-Blessing. HB-01823-G.

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Chicago Daily News Blue Streaks members sitting on delivery motorcycles in Chicago, c. 1927. Photograph from Hedrich-Blessing. DN-0083253.

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Chicago Daily News Blue Streaks members sitting on delivery motorcycles in Chicago, c. 1927. Photograph from Hedrich-Blessing. DN-0083253.

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With the wave of a wand, your child can look like a magician! This costume includes Cape with secret pockets, Button Down Vest, Top Hat with secret compartment, Magic Wand, White Gloves and Bow Tie. For children age 4-8. $49.99

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Any way you slice it, this trick will stump your friends! Cut the rope in half and magically fix it! $5.99

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Wanna get your friends out of their seats? Get this floating match trick! $5.99

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Ever want to make someone that's bugging you disappear? Get this insect to vanish right before your eyes with the Magic Drawer! $5.99

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Want to "see" a finger chopped? Get the Instant Illusions Magic Guillotine to stun your friends! $5.99

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Does your need for new magic tricks never disappear? Well, this vanishing ball trick may satisfy that need! $9.99

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Want a way to get hooked on magic? Buy this set of magic linking rings -- they mysteriously join together, then separate with a snap of your fingers! $12.99

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Say the magic word to learn five awesome new tricks! Set Includes: Thumb tip trick, secret taper cards, magic rope trio, miracle dice and multiplying balls. $14.99

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Want to work your own magic? This magic set has everything you need to perform 15 amazing tricks! Includes cup and ball tricks, coin base, spikes through coin, coin paddle tricks, computer age cards and magic wand tricks. $24.99

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Magic Interactive Theater Prop. Opening 6/9, our interactive Magic exhibition will explore magicians' tricks. Photograph by Lesley Burr.

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Admiring Chicago’s Christmas tree at Congress and Michigan, January 1, 1960. iChi-i59382.

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Elmer Fanter, the “Boy Murderer,” standing behind jail cell bars, March 2, 1915. DN-0064142.

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Mailman N. Sorenson poses with his heavy load of Christmas mail and parcels, 1929. DN-0090218. Want to buy a book?> Purchase Historic Photos of Christmas in Chicago

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Menorah sculpture in Daley Plaza, December 1993. iChi-65119.

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Not even Santa Claus could resist the excitement over “Lucky Lindy” and air travel. Here Santa tries out a substitute for his sleigh just months after Charles Lindbergh’s famous 1927 transatlantic flight. iChi-03166.

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This Hanukkah card was sent to Rabbi Ralph Simon of the Jewish synagogue, Congregation Rodfei Zedek, from Bert and Lucille Leiu, c. 1960-1980. Inside the card reads: Dear Ones, May this Festival of Lights bring a glow of happiness to you and those you love. Hope the year is a good one to be enjoyed in good health. Gratefully, Bert and Lucille Leiu iChi-65115.

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Children and adults check out the latest in toy cars, ca. 1929. DN-0090142.

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A father gives his child a lift to better view the Christmas goodies, c. 1910. iChi-37800.

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A masked  Santa raising money for Volunteers of America, c. 1902. In the 1900s, images of Santa differed greatly from the rotund, rosy-cheeked, jolly gentleman we’re used to seeing today. DN-0001069.

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A group of children gather around Santa, c. 1929. DN-0090223.

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Santa Claus kneels near a fireplace as he delivers presents. iChi-59388.

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Children share a Christmas kiss in front of a tree before exchanging gifts.  iChi-59434.

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This Kwanzaa banner from St. James school appeared in a procession at Holy Name Cathedral to celebrate Black History Month in 1995. Its theme explores the seven-day African American celebration. Each of the seven days devotes itself to a specific principle, which participants discuss as they light red, black, and green candles in a candelabra, called a Kinara. UJAMAA is the fourth of the seven Kwanzaa principles and refers primarily to the theme of cooperative economics.

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This Kwanzaa banner from St. James school appeared in a procession at Holy Name Cathedral to celebrate Black History Month in 1995. Its theme explores the seven-day African American celebration. Each of the seven days devotes itself to a specific principle, which participants discuss as they light red, black, and green candles in a candelabra, called a Kinara. UJAMAA is the fourth of the seven Kwanzaa principles and refers primarily to the theme of cooperative economics.

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Martin Luther King, Jr., c. 1963. Photograph by Declan Haun. iChi-65156.

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Star Bethel Church store front on Clybourn Ave., c. 1950. Photograph by Stephen Deutch.  iChi-14221.

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Women working in the train yard, wearing coveralls, and standing on the side of a cart, carrying long pieces of materials on the tracks at the Ryan car shop, 1917. Photograph by Chicago Daily News. DN-0068264.

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Sally Rand. Photograph by Romaine Photography. ICHi-65401.

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People standing in line to pay taxes at the County Clerk’s office in 1907. Photograph from the Chicago Daily News. DN-0004880

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Stenographers sitting at desks in rows taking a civil service exam, 1909. Photograph by Chicago Daily News. DN-0007016.

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President Abraham Lincoln with his son Tad, 1864. iChi-11238.

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The great composer Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington, c. 1960s. iChi-24875.

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Students from the Art Institute of Chicago kissing at the Goodman Theater entrance, c. 1955. iChi-65260.

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Woman wearing a Mardi Gras costume and ice skates at Garfield Park in 1929. DN-0087344.

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Hurdlers Norma Zilk (wearing a Lake View t-shirt), Margaret Sheffield, and Elizabeth Sheffield competing in a track meet at Soldier’s Field in Chicago, 1924. Photograph by Chicago Daily News. DN-065072.

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Albert Einstein and an unidentified man standing in front of a train in 1932. Photograph by Jun Fugita.  iChi-59464.

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Woman pushing child in stroller, with two children walking and a child riding a tricycle in Lincoln Park, 1911. Photograph by Chicago Daily News.  DN-0056734.

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Police putting a woman into the back of a police wagon during a garment workers strike, 1910. Photograph by Chicago Daily News. DN-0056132.

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March 1920, Irish poet William Butler Yeats sits in a rocking chair on the porch of a building in Chicago. Photograph by Chicago Daily News. DN-0071801.

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Portrait of Jane Addams sitting in an automobile in Chicago, Illinois. Addams, the founder of Hull House in Chicago, had traveled to the Netherlands for an international women’s peace conference and throughout Europe to discuss peace issues with world leaders and then gave a lecture at the Auditorium Building on her findings, 1915. Photograph by Chicago Daily News. DN-0064813.

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Birth control advocate, Margaret Sanger, standing next to a train in a station, 1917. Photograph by Chicago Daily News.  DN-0067907.

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Portrait of Lorraine Hansberry, author of “A Raisin in the Sun.” Photographer unknown. ICHi-39781.

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Newberry Street between Maxwell and 14th St., 1970. Photograph by James Newberry. ICHi-20328.

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Group portrait of the University of Chicago Jazz Band playing their instruments, 1926. DN-0080393 .