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Robert Dean Avery Transportation Collection (1905-2018)
Collection
Identifier: TL028
Abstract
The Robert Dean Avery Transportation Collection includes transportation related items from Avery including 464 postcards and materials from his time as a Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) bus driver. The postcards, dating from 1905 to 2003, depict various modes of transportation, the Panama Canal, and Lake Shore Drive. Avery’s CTA related materials date from 1965 to 1967 and include a four-page recollection of his time as a bus driver, uniform pieces, and related equipment. This collection...
Dates:
1905-2018
Commuters Take Action Collection
Collection
Identifier: TL038
Abstract
The Commuters Take Action Collection consists of one box of materials created and distributed by the organization Commuters Take Action (CTA) in 2022, their inaugural year of existence. This collection consists of physical ephemera distributed by the organization with the purpose of encouraging recruitment, making data collected by the organization more publicly known, and publicizing events that they hosted such as protests. Examples of these materials include handbills, posters, and...
Dates:
2022
Lillian Mallstrom Airline Menu and Memorabilia Collection
Collection
Identifier: TL023
Abstract
The Lillian Mallstrom Airline Menu and Memorabilia Collection contains transportation ephemera focused on the aviation industry of the mid to late 20th century. As one of the few collections compiled by a woman at the Transportation Library, this collection offers an interesting insight into materials created for traveling mothers and parents, such as menus for children and babies, a baby bottle cooler, and a throw-a-way diaper. The collection also includes a wide variety of airline menus...
Dates:
1957-2005
Transportation Library Menu Collection
Collection
Identifier: TL017
Abstract
381 historic airline, ocean liner, and railroad menus, dating from 1928 to the present.
Dates:
1928-present
Panama Canal Construction Photographs
Collection
Identifier: TL033
Abstract
A collection of 74 original photographs from the Panama Canal Zone, taken between approximately 1904 and 1914.
Dates:
1904 - 1914
William Luke Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: TL010
Abstract
The William Luke Photograph Collection is a collection of photographs of buses from at least 60 countries. Each photograph is annotated by William Luke. The dates of publication of the photographs range from 1880 to 2010, and the majority of the photographs were published between 1980 and 1999.
Dates:
1880 - 2010; Majority of material found within 1980 - 1999
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- Menus 2
- Panama Canal (Panama) 2
- Aeronautics, Commercial--Social aspects 1
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- Canals--Design and construction 1
- Lake Shore Drive (Chicago, Ill.) 1
- Local transit--Illinois--Chicago 1
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- French 3
- Japanese 3
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- Swedish 2
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- Dutch; Flemish 1
- Finnish 1
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- Chicago Transit Authority 2
- Avery, Robert Dean 1
- Commuters Take Action (Organization) 1
- Foster, George M. (George McClelland), 1913-2006 1
- Luke, William A. 1
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