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Subject Source: Gilcrease Places

Found in 42 Collections and/or Records:

A Map of Louisiana and of the River Mississippi, 1721

 Item — Drawer MC-3, Folder: Map 24
Identifier: 39.557
Scope and Contents This map contains depictions of Louisiana territory and the surrounding areas, such as Florida, Carolina and as north as the Great Lakes. This map also depicts areas near Louisiana as inhabited by Indigenous peoples, such as the Apache and the Padoucas tribes. Inscribed in type, "The Landing Place of Fyrnand Soto in 1539" in middle on recto; Inscribed in type, "Explanation: [house] Habitations of the Indians [asterisk] Promiscuous Nations [plus sign] Nations destroyed [snake emblem] Course...
Dates: 1721

Account Book, late 19th century - early 20th century

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.8230
Description

Red leather account book, Compliments of Clay, Robinson & Company, Live Stock Commission, Chicago, with "Chas. M. Russell" handwritten in on the first page with a sketch of a buffalo skull. A list of items with prices has been handwritten in pencil on the following pages.

Dates: late 19th century - early 20th century

Animal House in Chicago, late 19th century - early 20th century

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.7759
Description

Postcard with colored photograph of Animal House in Lincoln Park.

Dates: late 19th century - early 20th century

Appalling Fire in Chicago, October 9, 1871

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.8030
Description

Page from the Registrar, Springfield, Illinois about the Chicago fire of 1871.

Dates: October 9, 1871

Art & Artists, Febeuary 5, 1916

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.5528.1-2
Description

Chicago Evening Post, 5 February 1916 "Art and Artists" Charles M. Russell exhibit at the Thurber "comes like a fresh breeze from the mountains"

Dates: Febeuary 5, 1916

B. M. Bower's 'Chip, of the Flying U', late 19th century - early 20th century

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.8273
Description Magazine or newspaper clipping advertising the book "Chip, of the Flying U" which contains colored illustrations by Charles M. Russell. Transcript (DCI) B. M. Bower's "Chip, of the Flying U" This tale is so thoroughly imbued with the spirit of the living, breathing West, that the reader is likely to imagine that he himself is cantering over the grassy plains and imbibing the pure aire of the prairie in company with Chip, Weary, Happy Jack...
Dates: late 19th century - early 20th century

Chicago Union Station, late 19th century - early 20th century

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.7702
Description

Postcard with a colored photograph of the main waiting room at the Chicago Union Station.

Dates: late 19th century - early 20th century

Cowboy Artist in Chicago is Type of the Real West, March 6, 1914

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.5521.1-3
Description

Chicago Evening Post 6 March 1914 "Cowboy Artist in Chicago Is Type of the Real West," Charles Russell photograph included, cannot stand "savvy" cubists and futurists; has alway painted "Art to me is real, big life."

Dates: March 6, 1914

Diversey Beach, late 19th century - early 20th century

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.7717
Description

Postcard with colored photograph of Diversey Beach in Chicago.

Dates: late 19th century - early 20th century

From Burridge Butler to Homer E. Britzman, November 16, 1940

 Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 255.Unknown]
Identifier: TU2009.39.4402
Description

From Burridge Butler, publisher of The Prairie Farmer, November 16, 1940, he will be in Chicago in January, and the best time to take a trip with him and Con Price would be in February for a desert tour.

Dates: November 16, 1940