Frank and Marie Micholowsky, several weeks into a dance marathon in Chicago, January, 19, 1931
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last four couples standing in the Chicago dance marathon, 1930
Mary (Marie) Louise Rennen of Chicago, Illinois
Mrs Belva Gaertner standing and looking through jail cell bars, Chicago, Illinois, March 13, 1924 She inspired the fictional character Velma Kelly/Velma Wall in the play Chicago
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The Invention of Morel, an opera based on the 1940 novella by Adolfo Bioy Casares, with a Louise Brooks inspired character (Faustine, played by Valerie Vinzant), is currently playing at […]
Frank Moy, the ‘mayor of Chinatown’, celebrates the Chinese New Year with children in Chicago, 1934
candidates for the title of Miss Great Lakes seen here on State Street, Chicago circa July 4, 1935
Buddy Rogers, formerly of the films, took an old friend of Hollywood days, Claire Windsor, for a boat ride in the World’s Fair lagoon in Chicago, June 6, 1933, when […]
a woman is tangled up in the straps from the tummy shimmy machines at her athletic club, Chicago, Illinois, May 9, 1929