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[In Soldier's Field, Chicago]

Description: This photo shows a group of eleven cowgirls standing in Soldier's Field, Chicago, with a row of classical columns behind them. From left to right, they are: Fox Hastings, Donna Cowan, Marie Gibson, Florence Hughes, Tad Lucas, Grace Runyan, Ruth Roach, Rose Smith, Bonnie McCarroll (possibly), Vera McGinnis, and Mabel Strickland.
Date: 1927

Spoons : World's Columbian Expostion, Chicago, 1893

Description: A group of 6 spoons from the 1893 Chicago "World's Columbian Exposition" world's fair. Silverplated souvenir teaspoons, each with scrolling forms on handle. Bowl of each spoon is engraved with a view of a different building from the exposition: U.S. Government Building; Horticultural Building; Mines and Mining Building; Machinery Hall; Transportation Building; Manufacturers & Liberal Arts [Building].
Date: 1893
Creator: Leonard Manufacturing Company

Glass Axe

Description: Clear glass axe or hatchet, made at the Libbey Glass Company display as a souvenir of the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition. One side of blade with relief inscription "World's Fair / 1893"; other side of blade with relief portrait of George Washington, and inscription "The Father Of His Country". Handle with relief inscription near base: "Libbey Glass Co / Toledo, Ohio."
Date: 1896
Creator: Libbey Glass Company

[Name Card]

Description: A name card from the C. B. Moore Collection. This card has the name John J. Ligstein printed on it in script. It also has the city Chicago printed on it on the lower right hand corner of the card.
Date: unknown

[Clipping: " 'Homosexuality is a death-style,' gay rights foe tells psychologists", GayLife]

Description: Clipping of an article by Kārlis Streips from the LGBT weekly publication GayLife. The article recounts controversial comments on homosexuality made by the psychologist Paul Cameron at the 1983 Midwestern Psychological Association convention in Chicago. According to the article, Cameron claimed, among other things, "that homosexuals are 20 times more likely to commit mass murder than are heterosexuals".
Date: May 12, 1983
Creator: Streips, Kārlis

[News Script: Alger]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Democratic National Convention and a county Republican convention in Dallas, Texas.
Date: August 14, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Clip: Texas Delegation Strong for Lyndon]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about a delegation being sent to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in order to support Senator Lyndon Johnson.
Date: August 12, 1956
Duration: 1 minute 23 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: SMU]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Southern Methodist University basketball team traveling to Chicago to play the San Francisco Dons team in a semifinals game.
Date: March 21, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: Gloves]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about El Paso boxing champions Pete Melendez and Jake Martinez traveling to Chicago for the Golden Gloves boxing semi-finals.
Date: March 8, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[News Script: 4-H]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about thirty young Texan 4-H Club members boarding a train in Fort Worth bound for the club's annual national convention in Chicago.
Date: November 29, 1957
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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