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Wizard of Oz Playbill
The first cast page from the program for the production of The Wizard of Oz when performed at the Grand Opera House in Chicago, Illinois in the Summer of 1902.
Weber's Weekly, Year III, No. 2., April 22, 1905: Sympathetic Striking.
The left side, page 109, presents a copy of Weber's Weekly, Year III, No. 2., which was issued on April 22, 1905. This is a newsletter that was published by George W. Weber; the former editorial writer of the Chicago Record. It is a 4-page document…
Valentine's Day Poem.
A St. Valentine's Day poem composed by Katherine Tannis-Boller for her husband, Claude Villette Boller, in 1905.
Up From the Ranks: Mr. Boller.
An article about Mr. Boller's employment history with Montgomery Ward & Co. taken from "Up From the Ranks," Among Ourselves, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Interests of the Employees of Montgomery Ward & Co., Chicago, vol. 1, no. 9 (June 1904):…
Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States.
Page 49 of Mr. Claude Villette Boller's Scrapbook shows an illustration of the newly appointed President Theodore Roosevelt from the Sunday Record-Herald, Chicago, September 15, 1901.
The Scrapbook
A scrapbook consisting of 130 used pages including dance cards, newspaper clippings, playbills, cards, business cards, poems, wedding invitations, menus, travel ephemera, ticket stubs, ribbons, etc.
Telegram from R. J. Thorne to C. V. Boller, April 10, 1905.
A telegram from R. J. Thorne, son of Montgomery Ward & Co. co-founder and himself co-founder of the Employers' Association of Chicago, to C. V. Boller requesting he return to Chicago regarding the origin of the strike which initiated in the cutting…
President McKinley Shot Down - His Condition Critical.
Page 40 of Mr. Claude Villette Boller's Scrapbook which shows a photo of President William McKinley and a headline from an unknown newspaper from Saturday Morning, September 7, 1901 announcing the shooting.
President M'Kinley is Dead.
Page 45 of Mr. Claude Villette Boller's Scrapbook which shows a photo of President William McKinley and a headline from an unknown newspaper announcing President McKinley's death.
Portrait of Claude V. Boller
An illustration of Mr. Claude V. Boller which appeared in the Daily News (Chicago) on December 11, 1906 about the trial regarding the garment workers labor dispute that sparked the bloody 1905 Chicago Teamsters' Strike.