Burt family papers, 1890-1951.

World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)

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The World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World’s Fair, was organized in celebration of the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s landing in America. The fairgrounds, open from May 1, 1893 until October 30, 1893, were designed by Frederick Law Olmstead and covered more than 630 acres in Jackson Park and the Midway Plaisance. Daniel Burnham oversaw the construction of nearly 200 new buildings for the fair, most of which were designed in the Beaux-Arts style. 27 million peo...

Newberry Library

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The Newberry was founded on July 1, 1887 and opened for business on September 6 of that year. The Newberry’s establishment came about because of a contingent provision in the will of Chicago businessman Walter L. Newberry (1804-68), which left what later amounted to approximately $2.2 million for the foundation of a “free, public” library on the north side of the Chicago River, if his two children died without issue. After the deaths of Mr. Newberry’s daughters and then, in 1885, of his widow, t...

Midwest manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)

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Tribune Tower (Chicago, Ill.)

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Soldier Field (Chicago, Ill.)

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Chartered as Illinois Industrial University 1867; adopted name University of Illinois in 1885 and know as the Urbana-Champaign campus; became University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1966). From the description of Afro-American Studies and Research Program records, 1980-1984. (Fisk University). WorldCat record id: 70970126 ...

Burt, Henry Jackson, 1873-

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Illinois-based family. Edith Fleming Burt was born to Jesse and Matilda Havens Maxwell Fleming on January 14, 1874 in Champaign, IL. She attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for two years without graduating. Henry Jackson Burt II, of Urbana, IL, was born to parents Henry Jackson Burt I and Isabel Dunlap on February 6, 1873. Henry J. Burt also attended the University of Illinois and graduated with a Bachelors of Science in Civil Engineering in 1896. Bot...

Poettigger, Helen Burt, 1915-2001.

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Burt, Edith Fleming, 1874-1953 .

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Bahá'í Temple (Wilmette, Ill.)

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Burt family.

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