- US IlHpHS 1996.5-6.0764
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Written on bottom of slide: Tas Mahal, In the King's Palace, Delhi.
Written on bottom of slide: Tas Mahal, In the King's Palace, Delhi.
A picture of the Taj Mahal taken or sourced by Jesse Lowe Smith.
t. Gauden's Lincoln seated (for Crerar Library, MacChesney's Lincoln, p. 136)
A photo taken of the Abraham Lincoln: The Head of State (also called Seated Lincoln or Sitting Lincoln) Statue originally slated for placement in John Crerar's plans for a public library (now operated by the University of Chicago), the statue itself was created by Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Due to individuals successfully preventing the placement of the John Crerar library in Grant Park, the library was constructed elsewhere, and the statue itself was unveiled on May 31, 1926 at it's current location north of Van Buren Street.
Part of Visual : Lantern slides
Lantern slide with lyrics to "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot".
Part of Log structures
Verso reads "Never a house. On the Swift Farm on Ridge Road. East Side of Road."
Lantern slide with lyrics/poem "Sweet and Low", by Lord Alfred Tennyson.
Part of Log structures
Verso reads Sweeny's ; I don't think this was ever a house -- a little west of the main Sweeny house. Still standing.
Part of Artifacts collection
Color photograph of family Mary (Mrs. Michael) Sweeney and her three grandchildren, housed inside a gilded, oval portrait frame. 58 x 42 x 1 cm.
A black and white photograph of a print depicting the surrender of British General Charles Cornwallis in Yorktown in 1781.
Photograph of print.