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This is Chicago : an anthology

Title
This is Chicago : an anthology / edited by Albert Halper.
Edition
First edition.
Publication
New York : Henry Holt and Company, [1952]
Copyright Notice Date
©1952
Physical Description
489 pages ; 22 cm
Local Notes
BEIN Tanselle Z40 0199: Dust jacket.
Notes
Jacket design by Susan Foster.
Photograph of editor on dust jacket by Eugene Friduss.
Other formats
Online version: This is Chicago. 1st ed. New York : H. Holt, ©1952
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 06, 2023
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
The gay old dog / Edna Ferber
How the Devil came down Division Street / Nelson Algren
Heel, toe, and a 1, 2, 3, 4 / George Milburn
Late autumn ; Twilight in a tower / George Dillon
Strangest place in Chicago / John Bartlow Martin
Peacock case / LeRoy F. McHugh
With "King" Oliver on the South Side / Louis Armstrong
Chicago, jazz, Bix and the boys / Eddie Condon
Flappers and jellybeans / Meyer Levin
South Side boy / Richard Wright
How a nighthawk saved its eggs from being measured / Leonard Dubkin
Fish crier ; Picnic boat ; Lost ; Blacklisted ; Fog ; Jungheimer's / Carl Sandburg
Bronzeville / Horace R. Clayton and St. Clair Drake
The Haymarket affair / Capt. Michael J. Schaack
Studs / James T. Farrell
Travail / Louis Zara
My Aunt Daisy / Albert Halper
Fort Dearborn / Edgar Lee Masters
Chicago on fire / Alexander Frear
Columbia Exposition of 1893 / Lloyd Lewis and Henry Justin Smith
Of De Witt Williams on his way to Lincoln Cemetery ; Vacant lot ; Old-marrieds / Gwendolyn Brooks
Mr. and Mrs. Fix-It / Ring Lardner
Milk bottles / Sherwood Anderson
Three sketches / Ben Hecht
Nomination of Lincoln / William E. Barton
Smith is out / F. Raymond Daniell and Anne O'Hare McCormick
The early beginnings of Bathhouse John / Lloyd Wendt and Herman Kogan
The second Tunne-Dempsey fight / John Kieran, James R. Harrison, and James P. Dawson
The life, times and end of Dion O'Banion / Herbert Asbury
Remember the Black Sox? / John Lardner
First days at Hull House / Jane Addams
The Loeb-Leopold case / Clarence Darrow
A wolf hunt / Charles Fenno Hoffman
Massacre at Chicago / Mrs. John H. Kinzie
Westside / Franc B. Wilke
How I struck Chicago, and how Chicago struck me / Rudyard Kipling
Chicago / Carl Sandburg.
Genre/Form
Literature.
Also listed under
Halper, Albert, 1904-1984, editor.
Foster, Susan, bookjacket designer.
Friduss, Eugene, photographer.
Henry Holt and Company, publisher.
United States New York (State) New York.
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