1. "Furniture shopping at Dirkson & Sons Furniture Store in Springfield Illinois, 1901." Courtesy of Illinois State Historical Library.
2. "Chicago tenement, 1910." Courtesy of the Library of Congress.
3. "Hull House." Courtesy of Illinois State Historical Library.
4. "Rendleman House." Courtesy of Illinois State Historical Library.
5. Courtesy of Illinois State Historical Library.
6. Courtesy of Boone County Historical Society.
7. Courtesy of Illinois State Historical Library.
8. "Play at Hull House." Courtesy of Jane Addams Memorial Collection University Library, University of Illinois at Chicago.
9. "Italian immigrants in Chicago." Courtesy of Jane Addams Memorial Collection University Library, University of Illinois at Chicago.
10. "An African American family, just arrived in Chicago from the South, during the WWI migration." In The Negro in Chicago, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1922.
11. In The Tenements of Chicago 1908-1935 by Edith Abbott, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1936:318.
12. "Pike County Family, ca. 1915." Courtesy of Pike County Collection, University of South Alabama Archives.
13. "Negro women weighing wire coils..." by F.P. Burke. Records of the Women's Bureau (86-G-5L-1). Courtesy of the National Archives.
14. Courtesy of Lewis Wicks Hine Collection of the International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House.
15. Courtesy of Lewis Wicks Hine Collection of the International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House.
16. In The Tenements of Chicago, 1908-1935, by Edith Abbott, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1936: 223.
17. "Unidentified Couple." From the Bach Collection. Courtesy of Illinois State Historical Library.
18. In Sears, Roebuck Catalog, 1919.
19. "Frank Albrecht in meat market , Coal City, Illinois, ca. 1910." Courtesy of David Albrecht.
20. "Interior of First National Bank, Springfield." Courtesy of Illinois State Historical Library.
21. Cover of Sears, Roebuck and Co. Catalog, 1919.
22. "Doorway to Illinois National Bank, Springfield." Courtesy of First of America Bank.
23. Courtesy of Illinois State Historical Library.
24. In 1919 Modern Homes Catalog, Sears, Roebuck and Co. Courtesy of Sears Archives.
25. In 1919 Modern Homes Catalog, Sears, Roebuck and Co. Courtesy of Sears Archives.
26. In 1919 Modern Homes Catalog, Sears, Roebuck and Co. Courtesy of Sears Archives.
27. In 1919 Modern Homes Catalog, Sears, Roebuck and Co. Courtesy of Sears Archives.
28. "Sideview of Dellert house." Courtesy of State Journal Register, Springfield.
29. Courtesy of Macon County Historical Society.
30. "The Ferris Wheel Souvenir, Waltz and Polka," Sheet-music cover, Chicago: Valisi & Giorgi Publishers, 1893. Courtesy of Chicago Historical Society.
31. "Tenement living in Chicago, ca. 1900," by Visiting Nurses Association. Courtesy of the Chicago Historical Society ( ICHi-21091).
32. "Storeroom at Chicago Union Stock Yards." Courtesy of the Chicago Historical Society.
33. "Dr. Wilber P. Armstrong family at home, Christmas, 1904." Courtesy of Illinois State Historical Library.
34. "Yugoslavian immigrants in Chicago, ca. 1910." In The Tenements of Chicago, 1908-1935, by Edith Abbott, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1936:223.
35. "Interior of Marshall Field Department Store." Courtesy of Marshall Field Co.
36. "Boston Store window, ca. 1905, Chicago." Courtesy of Chicago Historical Society (ICHi - 23041).
37. Montgomery Ward and Co. Catalog for Spring and Summer 1895, p. 574.
38. Sears, Roebuck and Co. Catalog, 1919.
39. Sears, Roebuck and Co. Catalog, Fall 1900, p. 267.
40. Sears, Roebuck and Co. Catalog, 1902, 1910 and 1919, p. 319
41. Sears, Roebuck and Co. Catalog, 1902, 1910 and 1919, p. 319.
42. Montgomery Ward and Co. Catalog for Spring and Summer 1895, p. 397.
43. Montgomery Ward and Co. Catalog for Spring and Summer 1895, p. 192.
44. Montgomery Ward and Co. Catalog for Spring and Summer 1895, p. 238.
45. Sears, Roebuck and Co. Catalog, 1902, 1910 and 1919, p. 912.
46. Sears, Roebuck and Co. Catalog, 1902, 1910 and 1919, p. 1053.
47. "Gustav Nordstrom and family on the porch of their home in Rockford." Courtesy Midway Village and Museum Center, Rockford, IL.
48. "Dining room, Nordstrom house." Courtesy Midway Village and Museum Center, Rockford, IL.
49. "Upstairs bedroom, Nordstrom house." Courtesy Midway Village and Museum Center, Rockford, IL.
50. "Large parlor, Nordstrom house." Courtesy Midway Village and Museum Center, Rockford, IL.
51. Courtesy of Boone Co. Historical Society
52.Mueller catalog, 1899. Courtesy of Illinois State Historical Library
53."Modern Heating Systems, 1921." Courtesy of Sears Roebuck Archives.
54."Nathanial Banta." Courtesy of Arlington Heights Historical Society.
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