The new Chicago Fire Academy was dedicated in May 1961, and in view of its many outstanding and unique facilities, promptly nicknamed "The West Point of the Fire Department." The Snorkel pictured in front of it was conceived by Chicago’s Fire Commissioner, Robert J. Quinn, and Chicago was the first Read More →
Main exhibit hall of the TYRINGHAM ART GALLERIES, ART SCHOOL and WORKSHOP in the famous Gingerbread House at Tyringham in the BEAUTIFUL BERKSHIRES, Mass. Publisher: Crown Color Views., Inc. North Adams, Mass A Dexter Card Number: 43911-B via Flickr http://flic.kr/p/thsviG
Read More →Everyone’s talking about teachers and their students today. This 1902 photograph of the Alexander Muir/Gladstone Ave. public school shows the principle, Alexander Muir, and Miss Adda Burger, the teacher of this grade 5 class. Mr Muir is best known for having written the song “Maple Leaf Forever”. The original school Read More →
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