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https://www.beyondthewhitecity.org/land-acknowledgment daily 0.75 2022-11-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/713120f4-c935-4d2c-8e4c-05c70d443063/Chicago_Marsh.jpg Land Acknowledgment - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.beyondthewhitecity.org/reclaiming-the-land daily 0.75 2022-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/bbab0f29-6f06-43c4-9065-c02a854f4769/Courtroom_WEB.jpg "Reclaiming" the Land - Make it stand out Chicago courtroom, circa 1890s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/b54e59f8-ab48-4714-a3df-5bb702aedab8/Streeter_Shack_LOC.jpg "Reclaiming" the Land - Make it stand out George Wellington “Cap” Streeter’s original shack. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/3bb95b11-10e3-4792-9b42-c1fa52cccf42/Streeter_Occupy.jpg "Reclaiming" the Land - Make it stand out Cleaning Streeter’s Occupy Movement in 1918. https://www.beyondthewhitecity.org/who-gets-what-land-and-where daily 0.75 2022-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/6d7133ea-05b3-43c6-8335-491793c9fe2a/1892Greely_MeccaFlats.jpg Who Gets What Land, and Where? - Make it stand out A detailed street map showing the Mecca Flats (lower right, in pink) in its Bronzeville neighborhood. Greely-Carlson Company 1892. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/f248ad97-6c61-45e2-9900-714141d17241/Color+Redlining.jpg Who Gets What Land, and Where? - Make it stand out A Home Owner’s Loan Corporation map indicating the areas of the north and west sides of Chicago that the agency classified as “Best” (green), “Still Desirable” (blue), “Definitely Declining” (yellow), and “Hazardous” (red). https://www.beyondthewhitecity.org/worlds-columbian-exposition daily 0.75 2022-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/f619c021-c280-4ba7-b96d-7f5e688d4f62/1.1_RandMcNallyMap1893.jpg World's Columbian Exposition - Make it stand out Map of the World’s Columbian Exposition fairgrounds, from Rand McNally and Co. 1893. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/8cad52ac-6ef7-431b-bdff-a6f023ed9967/CWE_Construction.jpg World's Columbian Exposition - Make it stand out Construction begins at the World’s Fair site, 1892. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/0fb2321b-4551-465a-a0b5-54001563502e/CWE_Woman_Bldg.jpg World's Columbian Exposition - Make it stand out The Woman’s Building, designed by Sophia Hayden, under construction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/3a7fe29b-f49d-4a24-9bee-706fcd730184/Surfaceatlas_WCE.jpg World's Columbian Exposition - Make it stand out Image from the Surface Atlas showing some of the Foreign Building locations at the World’s Columbian Exhibition. The Brazil Building is seen at the left. From Burnham et al. 1989:n.p. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/1af54c67-81ee-4982-b672-e3ce30e2be2a/CWE_Chicago_Day_Crowds.jpg World's Columbian Exposition - Make it stand out Crowds at the Fair on Chicago Day, October 9, 1893. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/3cebf870-b921-4953-b0ec-7d417c6ed566/Guidebook_LOC_WEB.jpg World's Columbian Exposition - Make it stand out The non-white performers who worked and lived within the Midway Plaisance exhibits, including “Little Egypt” (center) who entranced tourists with her danse du ventre, were often portrayed in demeaning and racist fashion. https://www.beyondthewhitecity.org/chicagos-mecca-flats daily 0.75 2022-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/35949e6c-a102-472d-9b5b-ef78aa0d0afd/LOC_Skipping_WEB.jpg Chicago's Mecca Flats - Make it stand out Children playing in Bronzeville. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/ebe9b8d0-79e1-40c0-939d-7ed044dc7784/Crown_Hall_Web.jpg Chicago's Mecca Flats - Make it stand out S.R. Crown Hall at Illinois Institute of Technology. Photo courtesy of Eric Allix Rogers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/0c8fab38-f52f-4d09-88ac-6231d67afceb/MeccaFlats_1912Sanborn.jpg Chicago's Mecca Flats - Make it stand out The neighborhood of the Mecca Flats, Sanborn Fire Insurance Map, 1912. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/b4eb9d52-03b9-493a-befa-9f17413c3649/dumetz.jpg Chicago's Mecca Flats - Make it stand out Image of Mecca’s façade (Dumetz 1951). Chicago History Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/25fa2bfa-379b-47b1-bb63-30ed7dfdabb2/Kirkland_1951_Atrium.jpg Chicago's Mecca Flats - Make it stand out Image of one of the Mecca's atria (Kirkland 1951). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/c2abe49b-274e-49ba-a483-23f07e169758/Mecca_Arcade_Web.jpg Chicago's Mecca Flats - Make it stand out The light-filled interior atria surrounded by elaborate wrought-iron galleries. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/01604c03-98e7-47b6-a3a3-73c75cbd4c21/Mecca_Hotel_Web.jpg Chicago's Mecca Flats - Make it stand out The Mecca Flats as a temporary hotel for the 1983 World’s Columbian Exposition. https://www.beyondthewhitecity.org/kuru-and-ho-o-den daily 0.75 2022-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/fce601cd-37ce-4308-a37b-81742f497472/Ho-o-den+PalaceFPO.jpg Kuru and Ho-o-den https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/b33fc383-6c67-45d7-8126-1a6240011236/Masamichi_Kuru_Blue.jpg Kuru and Ho-o-den - Make it stand out Masamichi Kuru, ca. 1914. From Kenchiku Zasshi (Journal of Architecture and Building Science) No. 329, 1914. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/04a690e5-bb30-4d76-b9d0-6f01fc01536e/InlandArchitect_Hooden_1892.jpg Kuru and Ho-o-den - Make it stand out Kuru’s rendering of construction details of the Ho-o-den, Inland Architect and Building News 20(5):94-95,(December 1892). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/d51c0190-ed61-4a50-9dda-1c87cb45a9e2/Garden+of+the+Phoenix+WEB.jpg Kuru and Ho-o-den - Make it stand out The Garden of the Phoenix/Osaka Garden was restored in 1993. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/e370931f-e68e-46e8-829f-fddb3ea71740/Japanese_Hoo-den_%283409426087%29.jpg Kuru and Ho-o-den - Make it stand out Interior of Ho-o-den with displays of Japanese objects. https://www.beyondthewhitecity.org/ida-b-wells-treatise daily 0.75 2022-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/73f0a1b7-77e6-48f2-8e6f-2f708188c8cd/The_Reason_Why_2_WEB.jpg Ida B. Wells Treatise - Make it stand out Title page of The Reason Why (Wells-Barnett 1893). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/bd1795e1-12ea-45bd-937d-40d0fb0c2031/Ida_Group_NACWC.jpg Ida B. Wells Treatise - Make it stand out The National Association of Colored Women's Clubs founders and some members pictured. Ida B. Wells-Barnett is second from the left in the front row. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/30eecb23-9d77-4113-9c9b-8079a18463a8/Ida_B_Wells_with_her_children%2C_1909_%28cropped%29.jpg Ida B. Wells Treatise - Make it stand out Ida B. Wells with her children. https://www.beyondthewhitecity.org/simon-pokagon-rebuke daily 0.75 2022-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/6a7f6e23-eef1-41a4-96a8-4b9359e17a65/simon+pokagon_1.jpg Simon Pokagon Rebuke - Make it stand out Portrait of Simon Pokagon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/5657b8be-71f2-4453-bfba-4e9dc74fcb9e/SimonPokagon_1893Fair.jpg Simon Pokagon Rebuke - Make it stand out Simon Pokagon, far right, at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition’s Chicago Day, where he delivered his book and spoke before a crowd of 7,000. This photograph was provided with the written permission of Dr. John N. Low, who holds its copyright (2007, 2015). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/69c60337-2cec-4a8b-b5a4-fe66afd23b17/ChiefPOkagon%27ssong.jpg Simon Pokagon Rebuke - Make it stand out An article from the Chicago Inter Ocean, January 23, 1899:5. https://www.beyondthewhitecity.org/products-from-the-fair daily 0.75 2022-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/3d0f4471-c120-4ce5-8843-7a50a9c43deb/18-marmalade.jpg Products from the Fair - Make it stand out James Keiller and Sons Dundee Marmalade jar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/ed642956-e950-4a5c-8d59-fca1b626b35a/Abilena.jpg Products from the Fair - Make it stand out The base of a bottle of AbilenA Cathartic water from the 2010 excavation at the Charnley-Persky House Archaeological Project, EU 1 cleaning. Photograph by Ryan J. Cook. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/6cc40cc2-3d4b-4f22-baeb-a048aca299aa/1898JphannHoff.jpg Products from the Fair - Make it stand out Advertisement for Johann Hoff’s Malt Extract from 1898 (Kennebec (Maine) Daily Journal, 12 November: 3). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/c3bee174-dd23-483f-aafc-e9caaf811bad/Sausage-Vendor-Official-Views-plate-107.jpg Products from the Fair - Make it stand out Vienna Beef sausages were introduced by Austro-Hungarian Jewish immigrants Emil Reichel and Samuel Ladany at the 1893 Chicago Fair. From Arnold and Higinbotham 1893: 107). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/90c187c3-c9eb-4ec7-9119-296048af7aa7/Window_Shopping_WEB.png Products from the Fair - Make it stand out At the turn of the twentieth century, department stores and international expositions like the Chicago World’s Fair were two major factors boosting consumer culture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/f3d85119-53bc-497c-b104-69adf7133601/Cream_of_Wheat_+1904_WEB.jpg Products from the Fair - Make it stand out Cream of Wheat cereal made its debut at the Fair and relied on racist depictions on of Black men in their branding. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/4ba427d0-ba75-4cb8-8ec1-45459cf7e7f2/AbilenA_Ad_WEB.jpg Products from the Fair - Make it stand out An advertisement for AbilenA Natural Cathartic Water. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/db36dd69-f0c7-41d9-9eca-6ef09c672597/4.7_MaclarenCheese.jpg Products from the Fair - Make it stand out MacLaren’s Imperial Cheese Company Roquefort cheese recovered from the 2015 Charnley-Persky House Archaeological Project, EU 4, ctx 22. Photograph by Ryan J. Cook. https://www.beyondthewhitecity.org/charnley-persky-house daily 0.75 2022-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/6e3da4ac-712a-4f26-ba38-65881fc3866b/LOC_Lake_Shore_Drive.jpg Charnley-Persky House - Make it stand out A view of North Lake Shore Drive in Chicago’s Gold Coast. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/f60208f4-a0bf-4363-bbd2-fe82e8378c57/Table4.4_CharnleyServants.jpg Charnley-Persky House - Make it stand out Employers and employees at the Charnley House, 1900-1940, compiled from U.S. census data. From Graff 2020: 116. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/bad7270d-c148-41c9-bc43-29bab6c827ec/Charnley_Sanborn_Map_ID.jpg Charnley-Persky House - Make it stand out The Neighborhood of the Charnley House (circled), Sanborn Fire Insurance Map, 1910. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/36a7e576-dfea-44e8-b24f-1d5b265d18cd/Table4.3_CharnleyChainofTitle.jpg Charnley-Persky House - Make it stand out List of Charnley House Renters and Owners, 1892-present. From Graff 2020: 107. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/41f67986-7f16-4528-92e2-01201fb11a91/1.11_James_Charnley_Residence_HABS_ILL%2C16-CHIG%2C12-1.jpg Charnley-Persky House - Make it stand out Exterior view of the Charnley House not long after it was completed. https://www.beyondthewhitecity.org/special-objects-from-charnley-house daily 0.75 2022-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/de4b7245-4e7c-4c3c-8173-866a54e21e90/25-lampstand.jpg Special Objects from Charnley House - Make it stand out Bronze crane oil lamp from Italy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/a3d050d9-ddb3-47a3-8959-2f5599bf3f15/MintonKitten_resized+copy.jpg Special Objects from Charnley House - Make it stand out Minton Company kitten plate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/90e81f32-37c6-41b1-b8d5-f10258184abb/13-teacup-saucer.jpg Special Objects from Charnley House - Make it stand out Monogrammed porcelain plate fragment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/857f6028-46e7-43c7-ad7c-c335b9a83141/12-teapot.jpg Special Objects from Charnley House - Make it stand out Side-handled tea pot and strainer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/914d13e9-03ba-4b12-bdb7-5000ec701c9f/Belleck_Factory_WEB.jpg Special Objects from Charnley House - Make it stand out Craftsmen working in the Belleek factory, County Fermanagh, Ireland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/c1d9fd08-1d3a-4bfc-9fbe-fe5d580cdc5d/BelleekShell+copy.jpg Special Objects from Charnley House - Make it stand out Belleek shell bowl showing its makers mark from 1863-1891. https://www.beyondthewhitecity.org/the-mecca-as-worlds-fair-hotel daily 0.75 2022-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/9052a70e-b4bb-4fc8-89b8-6050c6d0097c/McNally_Fair_Guide.jpg The Mecca as World's Fair Hotel - Make it stand out The cover of A Week at the Fair, one of many guides to the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, produced by Rand, McNally & Company, 1893. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/bcae0fa1-74a7-49da-9163-4ee83f0d9cc7/ladiesparlor.jpg The Mecca as World's Fair Hotel - Make it stand out Part of an 1893 advertisement for the Mecca Hotel, by the International Cyclists’s Association and League of American Wheelmen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/a611ffa3-f0f6-4b60-b181-72ac2b334c5b/Rent_Mecca.jpg The Mecca as World's Fair Hotel - Make it stand out After the Fair’s end, the Mecca Flats operated solely as an apartment building. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/9595ce48-95de-4c04-bcd8-b312cb980c4e/delPradoHotel.jpg The Mecca as World's Fair Hotel - Make it stand out Hotel Del Prado, Chicago, ca. 1900. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/62b61d48-de29-49ba-b250-350448eea20a/MeccaChildren.jpg The Mecca as World's Fair Hotel - Make it stand out Children playing in the Mecca Flats atrium. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/f99e07e6-89b6-4ceb-9d64-45015985c921/Mecca_Hotel_WEB.jpg The Mecca as World's Fair Hotel - Make it stand out Part of an 1893 advertisement for the Mecca Hotel, by the International Cyclists’s Association and League of American Wheelmen. https://www.beyondthewhitecity.org/the-right-to-clean-water daily 0.75 2022-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/c71d9fc9-04cf-457c-ab0e-731536bbc0f2/17-hydrox-water.jpg The Right to Clean Water - Make it stand out Hydrox water bottle from the Consumers Company, Chicago, from the Charnley-Persky House. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/d260153b-a4d2-4671-8b73-8ef359c92a3e/ListerineAd_1916Vogue.png The Right to Clean Water - Make it stand out Advertisement for Listerine, Vogue, 1916. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/29f75ca8-3d92-4b2b-b114-49eebeb0e8c3/Consumers+Company+Ad+V1.jpg The Right to Clean Water - Make it stand out Consumers Company advertisement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/c17a6e84-f7b8-41b4-8d7c-fa52cb28fe7a/4-listerine.jpg The Right to Clean Water - Make it stand out Listerine bottle from the Charnley-Persky House. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/cd8e16c2-4574-4a4c-9e73-8b5325f3230a/Bathtime_WEB.jpg The Right to Clean Water - Make it stand out Many Chicagoans died from waterborne diseases and could not rely on the quality of the water that was piped in. https://www.beyondthewhitecity.org/safe-foods-and-medicines daily 0.75 2022-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/aa702c76-907c-46b5-be26-dd9c2eddd007/TRICHOBIO_22998.jpg Safe Foods and Medicines - Make it stand out Advertisement for Trichobio hair invigorator, ca. 1892. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/050198f6-f3d9-4066-8eed-5533f8d3ef5d/Hamlins_%2522Cures_All_Pain_in_Man_or_Beast%2522_--_about_1895_%2849724846726%29.jpg Safe Foods and Medicines - Make it stand out Advertisement for Hamlin’s Wizard Oil, ca. 1895. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/60656e71-69d9-4bc2-8a3d-a53e41fc6070/5-schiller.jpg Safe Foods and Medicines - Make it stand out Bottle from Schiller Pharmacy, from the Charnley-Persky House. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/35727e15-e8ed-40ce-bf12-a8cdde28bbee/3-toothpaste.jpg Safe Foods and Medicines - Make it stand out R.E. Rhode Salicylated Toothpaste container lid, from the Charnley-Persky House. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/364536c2-d7db-472e-a95f-f546fd743dfc/35170_1480430727544_1310076_n.jpg Safe Foods and Medicines - Make it stand out Partial dentures recovered from the 2010 excavations at the Charnley-Persky House. Photograph by Rebecca S. Graff. https://www.beyondthewhitecity.org/garbage-and-waste-disposal daily 0.75 2022-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/671db968-a2db-4448-aa06-a3f45b866105/Jane_Addams_WEB.jpg Garbage and Waste Disposal - Make it stand out Jane Addams, activist and Chicago’s first female garbage inspector. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/611882a9-6455-48a6-b00b-e1fd58fe6467/City_Dump_WEB.jpg Garbage and Waste Disposal - Make it stand out The city’s garbage dump in Chicago’s Stock Yard district. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/61af27a3-d0ad-4054-b9f5-8f7163d4445f/Jane_Addams_Dead_Horse_WEB.jpg Garbage and Waste Disposal - Make it stand out Chicago children play near a dead horse. Photo by Jane Addams. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/417520db-5392-4cb5-a9e0-9138d8addb86/LOC_Garbage_Lake+Michigan_Formatted_WEB.jpg Garbage and Waste Disposal - Make it stand out Garbage litters the shores of Lake Michigan. https://www.beyondthewhitecity.org/notable-women-from-the-three-sites daily 0.75 2022-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/0d2e0a3b-715d-4439-8c60-c8957843abe7/Screen-shot-2017-02-05-at-12.53.49-AM.jpg Notable Women from the Three Sites - Make it stand out Helen Douglas Charnley, ca. 1870s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/e740cd7c-14fa-4951-855d-4243417aaca2/Sophia_Bennett_at_MIT_in_1888.jpg Notable Women from the Three Sites - Make it stand out Sophia Hayden, 1888, when she was an architecture student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). MIT Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/8036de43-cb00-4905-860d-fcfb3a39dd19/MarionStephens_WEB.jpg Notable Women from the Three Sites - Make it stand out Marion Buckingham Ream Stephens Vonsiatsky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/f3b522e3-b478-4f12-9d84-9374865e54e8/G_Brooks.jpg Notable Women from the Three Sites - Make it stand out Gwendolyn Brooks holding a copy of her book, A Street in Bronzeville. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/a8e93d64-7d8d-441c-a72f-d55f199ee49c/NancyGreen_marker.JPG Notable Women from the Three Sites - Make it stand out Nancy Green’s cemetery marker, Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago. Photograph by Ryan J. Cook. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/2bc250f4-7d32-4953-b3c1-a5d416aea230/Aunt_Jemima_WEB.jpg Notable Women from the Three Sites - Make it stand out Aunt Jemima ad in the Saturday Evening Post. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/b019f0f3-9567-4462-b78b-f44c43d32ddd/NobiaFranklin.jpg Notable Women from the Three Sites - Make it stand out Nobia Franklin, portrait from ca. 1915 when she founded her first beauty school. https://www.beyondthewhitecity.org/bronzeville-and-gold-coast-children daily 0.75 2022-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/7ae76cf6-3b52-461f-a1f7-a3c56ce48f96/24-lion-figurine.jpg Bronzeville and Gold Coast Children - Make it stand out Cast iron lion figure, from the Charnley-Persky House. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/ae9657dc-3a49-43d8-8058-5ab0df1b62cf/20-albumen.jpg Bronzeville and Gold Coast Children - Make it stand out Glass fragment from a container of Eskay’s Albumenized Food, from the Charnley-Persky House. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/ad88be1d-1c2d-45bc-a97d-75899727bc95/LOC_Marbles.jpg Bronzeville and Gold Coast Children - Make it stand out Boys playing marbles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/a5147c1d-b6bb-444c-b5b5-5664b245466d/23-clay-pipe.jpg Bronzeville and Gold Coast Children - Make it stand out Miniature white clay smoking pipe, from the Charnley-Persky House. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/3e6c47cb-0120-443c-a2de-1bef0fa10c72/Eskay+Ad+V1.jpg Bronzeville and Gold Coast Children - Make it stand out Eskay’s Food advertisement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/27194d06-c7ef-46cb-8cba-5d498c0cbb34/Mrs._Winslow%27s_Soothing_Syrup_1887.jpg Bronzeville and Gold Coast Children - Make it stand out Advertisement for Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup, ca. 1887. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/a0fa9792-bd11-4799-9823-9470911c459b/Marbles.JPG Bronzeville and Gold Coast Children - Make it stand out Marbles excavated from the Mecca excavation. https://www.beyondthewhitecity.org/racialization-of-domestic-laborers daily 0.75 2022-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/0e38022d-ba05-4489-9808-07dabec0e8af/LOC_WEB_Dressmakers.jpg Racialization of Domestic Laborers - Make it stand out Black women learning dressmaking. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/88e4891c-2d39-413c-8589-c69ffeea24b7/Trading_Card_WEB.jpg Racialization of Domestic Laborers - Make it stand out Warner’s Safe Yeast ad featuring a domestic woman of color. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/8ca8fa7c-794a-484b-9325-99031c360a47/1920Census_Mecca_3348.jpg Racialization of Domestic Laborers - Make it stand out This page from the 1920 Census lists the residents of the Mecca who used the 3348 S. State St. address. Many of the women list domestic service jobs as their occupation. 1920; Census Place: Chicago Ward 2, Cook (Chicago), Illinois; Roll: T625_306; Page: 8A; Enumeration District: 84. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/ed3438de-b621-4222-8e0f-bc2b2c52519d/Table4.4_CharnleyServants.jpg Racialization of Domestic Laborers - Make it stand out A table of Census data on residents of the Charnley House, including live-in domestic laborers, 1900-1940. https://www.beyondthewhitecity.org/racialized-product-advertising daily 0.75 2022-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/2419a6c8-2537-455e-9965-d8abc233ed9e/Fig5.7_YachtAd.jpg Racialized Product Advertising - Make it stand out Yacht Club Salad Dressing advertisement, 1914. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/061c6bc5-9768-4c53-b515-0d8bfb4e7a3f/Pepsi_Exec_1940.jpg Racialized Product Advertising - Make it stand out Herman T. Smith was featured in newspaper profiles upon his hiring as Pepsi’s first Black executive, one part of the soft drink maker’s effort to cultivate a Black customer base in the 1940s and 1950s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/e4d32e4b-0b16-47e4-b851-3bb6b7536fbc/Geisha_Tea_Web.jpg Racialized Product Advertising - Make it stand out Image of Geisha Girl porcelain plate free with the purchase of tea. From the 1921 Montgomery Ward and Co. Catalogue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/e13a7bd4-37aa-4dd3-a0c6-5a97fced0bb9/Ford_Racism_Billboard_WEB.jpg Racialized Product Advertising - Make it stand out Racial stereotypes and racist imagery have figured in a wide array of American media, including this roadside billboard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/5f63be4e-3385-4ee8-9c68-a63cbd9b5152/IMG_1709.jpg Racialized Product Advertising - Make it stand out Pepsi bottle recovered from the Mecca Flats. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/ec95fea8-b1fc-4c6d-bf0f-28151b23bb8e/YachtSaladDressing.jpg Racialized Product Advertising - Make it stand out Yacht Club Salad Dressing bottle recovered from Charnley-Persky House. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/63444517-b1d0-4609-98b1-00e2292e7d2c/Geisha_Girl_Plate.jpg Racialized Product Advertising - Make it stand out Geisha Girl porcelain plate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/9d818839-5095-4b17-9c12-b61c6c6d1b8e/Aunt+Jemima+at+the+WCE_Life+of+Aunt+Jemima+CC+Harvard+D.D.Teoli+Jr.+A.C.+%2812%29_cropped.jpg Racialized Product Advertising - Make it stand out From The Life of Aunt Jemima: The Most Famous Colored Woman in the World via the Daniel D. Teoli, Jr. African American Archives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/9360d97e-d3d0-4961-96aa-f311e74751b9/Aunt+Jemima_V1.jpg Racialized Product Advertising - Make it stand out Aunt Jemima marketing material. https://www.beyondthewhitecity.org/urban-renewal-and-the-gold-coast daily 0.75 2022-12-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/793d3d59-832a-4aa3-945d-c3c8a7db7420/Palmer_Demo_WEB.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/5b56739c-7107-41da-b6be-74e1c2836849/littlehell.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/5ac6ec69-bca8-403c-a50e-c479892b6cd4/sandburgvillage.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/b329befb-2afe-4f64-8df3-1b5669400d4f/1972ChicagoTribuneCollage_Charnley_Wrecking.jpg https://www.beyondthewhitecity.org/urban-renewal-and-bronzeville daily 0.75 2022-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/5084701e-53df-492a-9c38-842a963885bc/Migration_Chicago.jpg Urban Renewal and Bronzeville - Make it stand out Chicago gained 80,000 Black residents between 1914 and 1920 from this Great Migration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/336233f0-e677-4b9b-aa0f-70b5753f6093/Ma_Rainey.jpg Urban Renewal and Bronzeville - Make it stand out Many world-renowned musicians, including Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, and Ma Rainey, above, stayed at the Mecca Flats while in town. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/a1856ca4-bd00-4388-886a-ffd081b69299/1879_Encasutictiles.jpg Urban Renewal and Bronzeville - Make it stand out Page from a 1879 United States Encaustic Tile Company catalog. The tiles from the Mecca Flats were manufactured by this company. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/c2a4f94c-72fd-4979-861d-bc3ee368343c/Mecca_Flat_Blues.jpg Urban Renewal and Bronzeville - Make it stand out In 1924, Jimmy Blythe wrote “Mecca Flat Blues,” capturing the centrality of the building’s South Side neighborhood to Chicago’s Black community and jazz scene. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/85222b39-54d3-411d-8dc1-ece7f46d583f/Figure1_Meccademo_IChi026253.jpg Urban Renewal and Bronzeville - Make it stand out People watching the demolition of the Mecca Flats, Chicago. Photograph by Bernice R. Davis, Chicago History Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/3340e91c-1302-4c9d-a2fa-e9362ed4d849/Figure2_Meccatiles.JPG Urban Renewal and Bronzeville - Make it stand out Encaustic tiles from the basement floor of the Mecca Flats, July 2018. Photograph by Rebecca S. Graff. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/c4de20c8-4375-4d88-9243-26d0931593bc/Mecca_Flats_Children.png Urban Renewal and Bronzeville - Make it stand out Meeca Flats children return from school. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/6445fd9d-fa7d-461e-badb-1d92dd7ffe53/MeccaFlats_Aspirin_WEB.jpg Urban Renewal and Bronzeville - Make it stand out This aspirin bottle, still containing several pills, was recovered among materials from the Mecca Flats during the archaeological salvage project at S.R. Crown Hall, July 2018. Photograph by Ryan J. Cook. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/26c81e83-ddcf-443c-bf63-91c12365b2e7/MeccaFlats_1912Sanborn.jpg Urban Renewal and Bronzeville - Make it stand out Map showing redlining in the area surrounding the Mecca Flats. https://www.beyondthewhitecity.org/behind-the-scenes-at-the-digs daily 0.75 2022-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/fcadd40c-d7b4-497d-b65d-9f18ddb986d5/MeccaDig1_IMG_5802%5B599%5D.jpeg Behind the Scenes at the Digs - Make it stand out Elizabeth Mescher (left) instructs IIT volunteers on recovering artifacts from screened dirt. Photograph by Rebecca S. Graff. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/1a069502-1881-4f49-a8de-b18ad8682389/Charnley_2010.JPG Behind the Scenes at the Digs - Make it stand out A view of the varieties of activity characteristic of an archaeological dig, as exemplified by the Charnley-Persky House Archaeological project—excavation in the far background, screening of soil for artifacts on the right, and public interpretation in the foreground, 2010. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/f397f625-c941-4331-be04-899006c02df9/Charnley_Threesome.JPG Behind the Scenes at the Digs - Make it stand out Student excavators systematically removing material to expose artifacts and features during the 2010 season of the Charnley-Persky House Archaeological Project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/38165bb7-f4aa-401a-a5ba-725197b3471d/Mecca+Flats+tile+border+pattern.jpg Behind the Scenes at the Digs - Make it stand out Original tiles from the Mecca Flats revealed during excavation, July 2018. Photograph by Rebecca S. Graff. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/579c07d7-4e6f-4647-a5e5-bb28252c42a4/Pipestem_Marble_ceramic_IIT.jpg Behind the Scenes at the Digs - Make it stand out Smoking pipe stem, Bennington clay marble, and ceramic fragment recovered from the Mecca Flats excavation, July 2018. Photograph by Rebecca S. Graff. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/836af238-80b6-48d5-9537-da39e89a4559/AM_D_cheesejar_2015.png Behind the Scenes at the Digs - Make it stand out Lake Forest College students Anne Marie Brugioni and Dasha Rodina pose with a milk glass cheese container recovered during the 2015 excavations at the Charnley-Persky House. https://www.beyondthewhitecity.org/for-further-reading daily 0.75 2022-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/16c39757-5306-4578-9572-54b387b08bdc/graff_bookcover_large.jpg For Further Reading - Make it stand out Excerpts from this book used in this website are courtesy of Rebecca S. Graff and the University Press of Florida. Copyright 2020, all rights reserved. All proceeds from book sales go to the Society for Historical Archaeology (SHA). https://www.beyondthewhitecity.org/the-society-of-architectural-historians daily 0.75 2022-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627d1ccbfe19be022697560e/bce82326-8254-4c04-b032-1dd4660f971f/pauline-saliga-2-photo-by-john-gronkowski9deb44dbac8564e5abfcff0000eafba5.jpg The Society of Architectural Historians - Make it stand out Pauline Saliga (1953-2022). 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