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The Merchandise Mart building, one of the world's largest commercial centers, rises behind truss bridge crossing the Chicago River at Wells Street.Photo caption: "Chicago - architectural lines, Wells St. bridge and Merchandise Mart."

Works Progress Administration men pump floodwater out of the well of S. D. Hill in New Haven.

Several young mothers sit while waiting for a clinic employee to weight their infant children at an unidentified welfare clinic.

Two National Defense workers weld material in a shop located in Champaign.

Illustrated three verse song about a son reuniting with his mother.

Illustrated two verse song and chorus sung to the tune of "Marshal Ney." The song hails the expoits of the 69th New York Infantry Regiment, one of the regiments of the Army of the Potomac's Irish Brigade.

Illustrated three verse song and chorus depicting a long awaited homecoming.

A boy weighs and bags sacks of potatoes in Webb's Market.

A woman representing Chicago sits with papers listing scandals and graft schemes next to a scale with weights resembling several political officials. The lower portion of the cartoon shows an imbalance when she attempts to weigh "Kern" against…

Or "When this Cruel War is Over," a patriotic Union song about a sweetheart fighting in the war.

In French, "Saule-Pleureur, March fun`ebre du President Lincoln" (Funeral march for President Abraham Lincoln). Cover depicts two figures (angels?) at top of cover with a picture of Abraham Lincoln in a circle of flowers with American Flags. "Il…

A song honoring Lincoln in death.

Illustrated three verse song and chorus about a Union soldier dying on the battlefield of Manassas or Bull Run on July 22, 1861. The sheet includes an excerpt from a Union soldier's diary.

Lionel Remond Lenox II and Catherine Corneau Lenox, taken December 9, 1945, at their wedding reception at the home of Lionel’s sister, Helen Lenox Black, in Oakland, California.

A bride and groom sit in front of a large mirror wearing their wedding clothes.

A large wedding party poses for a portrait. Melville Medley Wilson is standing in the center of the back row.

Two cellophane-wrapped wedding cakes resembling square buildings with ornate scrollwork on a frame are lit with electric lights and covered in cellophane while on display.Photo caption: Greek series - wedding cakes with electric lights."

Several horse-drawn carriages travel up and down a muddy street in front of the first Weber Piano Company showroom at 239 Wabash Avenue.

A young boy places bags of potatoes on a scale before placing them in a shopping basket.