Chicago History Museum

This organization has contributed to the following objects in the Encyclopedia.

Exterior view of the Chicago courthouse before the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.

Wearing a striped prison dress, Belva Gaertner looks through the bars of her cell in a Chicago prison, March 1924.

Ever stylish, Belva Gaertner sits at a table and looks at her defense attorney, Thomas D. Nash, during her murder…

Garry Herrmann with National League president Harry Clay Pulliam, team owner John Brush, and American League president Ban Johnson, 1905.

Photograph of (from left to right) attorney Levy Mayer, Joseph Schaffner, and Harry Hart crossing a street in downtown Chicago…

“Map Showing the Burnt District in Chicago,” by R.P. Studley Company

Hermann Paepcke’s firm became one of the largest companies in Chicago’s massive lumber trade. Advertisement in Republican Marching Club of…

Paepcke’s lumber holdings specialized in both planing cut timber and making box shooks—that is, the wooden cartons that most goods…

From behind this desk in his Chicago offices, Hermann Paepcke controlled lumber interests stretching across the United States and Europe.

Prussian immigrant Hermann Paepcke spent his first American years in Texas before moving to Chicago.

Walter Paepcke’s fondness for spending time outside of the city would stay strong throughout his lifetime. Here one sees the…

Exterior view of St. Luke's Hospital, Chicago, IL

Elizabeth Paepcke’s eye for design went a long way in convincing her husband to think seriously about the profitability of…