" Mrs. Warren Springer, a well-to-do society woman of Chicago, visiting in the "Ghetto." Mrs. Springer is one of the many ...

My grandfather (right), cigar store proprietor; the helpers wearing aprons worked with the cigars -- early 1920s   Genealogical resear...

Warren Springer, 1890s Traveling back to 1890, the dark front hall of the Prairie Avenue mansion when the son walked out or was told to...

Bronze statue of Benjamin Franklin, mid-19th century My friend Richard can restore any object in the universe. His particular talent...

  Newspaper sketch of Imogene C. Fales, delegate to the 1896 Populist Party Convention. The first women delegates to the Republican and D...

Grace T. Lewis's Mt. Vernon, circa 1910 In 1915, Miss Lewis started as a clerk in the high school business office; within s...

Gloria Stromberg, age 17 (1945) During the war years when my mother was coming of age in a neighborhood called Inwood at the norther...