Fig. 1
Edward Millman, Outstanding American Women (east wall), 1938-1940, fresco, Lucy
Flower High School, Chicago.
Fig. 2
Edward Millman, Outstanding American Women (west wall), 1938-1940, fresco, Lucy
Flower High School, Chicago.
Fig. 3
Philip Ayer Sawyer, Industry, Progress, History, 1911, Oil on canvas adhered to wall,
Joseph Gary Elementary School, Chicago, Illinois (in situ).
Fig. 4
Marion Mahony Griffin, Fairies and Woodland Scenes, 1932, Oil on Canvas,
Corridor, George B. Armstrong School of International Studies, Chicago, Illinois (in situ).
Fig. 5
Rudolph Weisenborn, Contemporary Chicago, 1936, Oil on canvas adhered to the wall,
Corridor, Louis B. Nettelhorst Elementary School, Chicago, Illinois (in situ).
Fig. 6
Lucille Ward, ABC’s, 1938, Oil on canvas adhered to the wall, Kindergarten, Louis B.
Morrill Elementary School, Chicago, Illinois (in situ).
Fig.7-8
Frederic Clay Bartlett, The Arts (Architecture & Sculpture), 1906, Auditorium, Oil on
canvas adhered to wall, William McKinley High School (now Cregier Multiplex),
Chicago (now lost).
Fig. 9
Central Staircase, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1910, Chicago, Illinois
Fig. 10
Daniel H. Burnham (rendered by Jules Guerin), View of Chicago from Grant Park to Jackson
Park, 1907, Watercolor and Pencil on Paper.
Fig. 11
Hull House Parlor, 1890, photograph, Hull House, Chicago, Illinois.
Fig. 12
Map of Chicago showing sites of women’s activities, 1919.
Fig. 13
Traditional Classroom, c.1899, photograph.
Fig. 14
Dewey-inspired learning, c.1899, photograph.
Fig. 15
Public School Art Society Classroom, c.1900, photograph, Chicago.
Fig. 16
Viewing a reproduction of the Shaw Memorial with School Students, c.1900, photograph,
Chicago, Illinois.
Fig. 17
Students with PSAS Art Reproductions, c.1900, photograph, Chicago, Illinois
Fig. 18
John White Alexander, The Crowning of Labor (full view), 1906, Oil on canvas adhered to
wall, Central Staircase, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (in situ).
Fig. 19
John White Alexander, The Crowning of Labor: Toil (detail), 1906, Oil on canvas adhered to
wall, Central Staircase, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (in situ).
Fig. 20
John White Alexander, The Crowning of Labor: The Apotheosis of Labor (detail), 1906, Oil on
canvas adhered to wall, Central Staircase, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (in
situ).
Fig. 21
John White Alexander, The Crowning of Labor: The Apotheosis of Labor (detail), 1906, Oil on
canvas adhered to wall, Central Staircase, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (in
situ).
Fig. 22
John White Alexander, The Crowning of Labor: The March of Progress (detail), 1906, Oil on
canvas adhered to wall, Central Staircase, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (in
situ).
Fig. 23
John White Alexander, The Crowning of Labor: Allegorical Female Figures (detail), 1906, Oil
on canvas adhered to wall, Central Staircase, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (in
situ).
Fig. 24
Chicago Clubwomen outside Chicago Visiting Nurse Headquarters c.1906, photograph
Fig. 25
Mary Cassatt, Modern Woman (detail), 1893, Oil on canvas adhered to wall, Woman’s
Building, The World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois (now lost).
Fig. 26
Dudley Crafts Watson and Lauros Phoenix, Untitled, 2000, Oil on canvas, Entrance Foyer
(Left Wall), Wendell Phillips High School, Chicago, Illinois (in situ).
Fig. 27
Wendell Philips High School Entrance Foyer, c.1906, photograph, Chicago, Illinois.
Fig. 28
Lauros Phoenix, Father Marquette Among the Indians, 1906, Oil on canvas, Entrance Foyer
(Left Wall), Wendell Phillips High School, Chicago, Illinois (in situ).
Fig. 29
Dudley Crafts Watson, Untitled Native American Scene, 1906, Oil on canvas, Entrance
Foyer (Left Wall), Wendell Phillips High School, Chicago, Illinois (in situ).
Fig. 30 Jacob Holzer, Joliette and Father Marquette’s Travels in Illinois, 1897, Mosaic, Lobby
Balcony, Marquette Building, Chicago, Illinois (in situ).
Fig. 31
Jacob Holzer, Joliette and Father Marquette’s Travels in Illinois: Meeting with the Native
Americans (detail), 1897, Mosaic, Lobby Balcony, Marquette Building, Chicago, Illinois (in
situ).
Fig. 32
Datus E. Myers, Settlers and Indians, 1910, Oil on canvas adhered to wall, Entrance
Corridor, Carl von Linné Elementary School, Chicago, Illinois (in situ).
Fig. 33
Datus E. Myers, Settlers and Indians (detail), 1910, Oil on canvas adhered to wall, Entrance
Corridor, Carl von Linné Elementary School, Chicago, Illinois (in situ).
Fig. 34
Gayle Hoskins, Untitled, 1906, Oil on canvas, Entrance Foyer (Right Wall), Wendell
Phillips High School, Chicago, Illinois (in situ).
Fig. 35
Albert Giddings, Untitled, 1906, Oil on canvas, Entrance Foyer (Right Wall), Wendell
Phillips High School, Chicago, Illinois (in situ).
Fig. 36
Margaret Hittle, Steel Mill, 1909-10, Oil on canvas, Auditorium (now in school corridor),
Albert G. Lane Technical High School, Chicago, Illinois (in situ).
Fig. 37
Gordon Stevenson, Construction Site, 1909-10, Oil on canvas, Auditorium (now in school
corridor), Albert G. Lane Technical High School, Chicago, Illinois (in situ).
Fig. 38
William Edouard Scott, Dock Scene, 1909-10, Oil on canvas, Auditorium (now in school
corridor), Albert G. Lane Technical High School, Chicago, Illinois (in situ).
Fig. 39
Maurice Gunn, [Cotton Workers], 1909-10, Oil on canvas, Auditorium (now in school
corridor), Albert G. Lane Technical High School, Chicago, Illinois (lost).
Fig. 40
Dwight H. Perkins, Floor Plan for Albert G. Lane Technical High School (original
building), 1906.
Fig. 41
School of the Art Institute Students Painting Murals, c.1909-1910, photograph.
Fig. 42
Students Making a Mural, 1918, photograph, Chicago, Illinois.
Fig. 43
Charles Yardley Turner at Work on General Washington at Fort Lee, Hudson County
Courthouse, New Jersey 1910, photograph.
Fig. 44
Letter from William McAndrew to Kate Brewster, [ca. 1927].
Fig. 45
Boardman Robinson, The History of Commerce, 1929, Oil on canvas, The English in China
(sixth panel of series) shown in original location, Kauffmann Department Store,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (panels now at Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center).
Fig. 46
Eugene Savage, Paths of Peace, 1929-1930, Oil on canvas, 15 panels, The Elks Memorial,
Chicago
Fig. 47
The Children’s Museum, The Art Institute of Chicago, c.1924, photograph.
Fig. 48
John Warner Norton and George Grant Elmslie, Peirce Kindergarten (full view), c.1926,
Helen Clay Peirce Elementary School, Chicago, Illinois (in situ).
Fig. 49
John Warner Norton, The Months of the Year: March (panel 3), c.1926, Oil on canvas, Helen
Clay Peirce Elementary School, Chicago, Illinois (in situ).
Fig. 50
John Warner Norton, The Months of the Year: November (panel 11), c.1926, Oil on canvas,
Helen Clay Peirce Elementary School, Chicago, Illinois (in situ).
Fig. 51
Frank Peyraud, View from the School, p. 1920, Oil on canvas, Auditorium, George B.
Armstrong Elementary School, Chicago, Illinois (in situ).
Fig. 52
Northeast corner of Ridge and Broadway, Edgewater/Rogers Park, c.1920s, photograph.
Fig. 53
Frank Peyraud, Past, Present, Future: We Are America, p. 1920, Oil on canvas, Auditorium,
George B. Armstrong Elementary School, Chicago, Illinois (in situ).
Fig. 54
John Warner Norton, The Months of the Year: July (panel 7), c.1926, Oil on canvas, Helen
Clay Peirce Elementary School, Chicago, Illinois (in situ).
Fig. 55
James E. McBurney, Historical Scenes: Observation, 1926-8, Oil on canvas, Daniel S.
Wentworth Elementary School, Chicago, Illinois (in situ).
Fig. 56
James E. McBurney, Historical Scenes: Reading, 1926-8, oil on canvas, Daniel S. Wentworth
Elementary School, Chicago, Illinois (in situ).
Fig. 57
James E. McBurney, Historical Scenes: Thinking, 1926-8, Oil on canvas, Daniel S.
Wentworth Elementary School, Chicago, Illinois (in situ).
Fig. 58
Elizabeth Gibson, Abraham Lincoln, 1911, Oil on canvas adhered to wall, Auditorium
(stage), Joseph Gary Elementary School, Chicago, Illinois (in situ).
Fig. 59
Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Lincoln Monument, 1887. Lincoln Park, Chicago
Fig. 60
James E. McBurney, Historical Scenes: Lincoln Family, 1926-8, Oil on canvas, Daniel S.
Wentworth Elementary School, Chicago, Illinois (in situ).
Fig. 61
James E. McBurney, Historical Scenes: Lincoln in New Orleans, 1926-8, Oil on canvas, Daniel
S. Wentworth Elementary School, Chicago, Illinois (in situ).
Fig. 62
James E. McBurney, Historical Scenes: Lincoln, the Circuit Rider, 1926-8, Oil on canvas,
Daniel S. Wentworth Elementary School, Chicago, Illinois (in situ).
Fig. 63
James E. McBurney, Historical Scenes: Lincoln at Gettysburg, 1926-8, Oil on canvas, Daniel
S. Wentworth Elementary School, Chicago, Illinois (in situ).
Fig. 64
James E. McBurney, Historical Scenes: Settlers, 1926-8, oil on canvas, Daniel S. Wentworth
Elementary School, Chicago, Illinois (in situ).
Fig. 65
James E. McBurney, Historical Scenes: Portrait of Wentworth, 1926-8, Oil on canvas, Daniel
S. Wentworth Elementary School, Chicago, Illinois (in situ).
Fig. 66
James E. McBurney, Historical Scenes: Native American Crafts, 1926-8, Oil on canvas, Daniel
S. Wentworth Elementary School, Chicago, Illinois (in situ).
Fig. 67
James E. McBurney, Man the Builder: Man the Maker: Who shall the Master be?, 1927-31, Oil
on canvas, Library, Samuel Tilden High School, Chicago, Illinois (in situ).
Fig. 68
James E. McBurney, Man the Builder: Man the Maker: Ye cannot work an hour at Anything
Without Learning Something, 1927-1931, Oil on canvas, Library, Samuel Tilden High
School, Chicago, Illinois (in situ).
Fig. 69
James E. McBurney, Man the Builder: Man the Maker: Chemistry is the Pilot of Progress, 19271931, Oil on canvas, Library, Samuel Tilden High School, Chicago, Illinois (in situ).
Fig. 70
James E. McBurney, Man the Builder: Man the Maker: As a Structure Appears, 1927-1931, Oil
on canvas, Library, Samuel Tilden High School, Chicago, Illinois (in situ).
Fig. 71
James E. McBurney, Man the Builder: Man the Maker: Fugit Hor-aConfucius, 1927-1931, Oil
on canvas, Library, Samuel Tilden High School, Chicago, Illinois (in situ).
Fig. 72
James E. McBurney, Man the Builder: Man the Maker: Machinery is Extended Mentality, 19271931, Oil on canvas, Library, Samuel Tilden High School, Chicago, Illinois (in situ).
Fig. 73
Miklos Gaspar, States: New Jersey, 1933, Oil on canvas, Albert Lane Technical High
School, Chicago, Illinois (now in the school corridor).
Fig. 74
Gus Wick, States: Alabama, 1933, Oil on canvas, Albert Lane Technical High School,
Chicago, Illinois (now in the school corridor).
Fig. 75 Unpaid Teachers and Century of Progress, cartoon, 1933.
Fig. 1
Edward Millman, Outstanding American Women (east wall), 1938-1940, fresco, Lucy
Flower High School, Chicago.
Fig. 2
Edward Millman, Outstanding American Women (west wall), 1938-1940, fresco, Lucy
Flower High School, Chicago.
Fig. 76
Richard Zoellner, Landscape at Frogtown (color study), 1941, Mannington, West Virginia
Fig. 77
Howard Cook, Steel Mill, 1940, Fresco, Federal Courthouse, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (in
situ)
Fig. 78
Daniel S. Wentworth Elementary School Library, 1940, photograph.
Fig. 79
Daniel S. Wentworth Elementary School Library, 1940, photograph.
Fig. 80
Luther Burbank School Library, c. 1940, photograph.
Fig. 81
Library in a Chicago Public School, c. 1940, photograph.
Fig. 82
Thomas Jefferson League, The History of Morgan Park (full view), c. 1940, Oil on
Fig. 83
One or the Other: Which?” 1937, cartoon, The American School Board Journal.
Fig. 84
Industries, Chicago Vocational High School, 1938.
Fig. 85
Mitchell Siporin, The Teaching of the Arts, Fresco, Lane Technical High School.
Fig. 86
Edgar Britton, Evolution of Mankind, c. 1938, fresco, Lane High School, Chicago
Fig. 87
Edgar Britton, Occupations, c. 1934, fresco, Highland Park High School, Chicago
Fig. 87
Chicago
Fig. 89
Edgar Britton, Occupations, Panel 1, c. 1934, fresco, Highland Park High School,
No strings attached, Cartoon, 1938.
Fig. 90 Edward Millman, Outstanding American Women: Clara Barton (detail), 1940.
Fig. 91
Hildreth Meiere, Onward March of Women (full view), 1933, Woman’s Building, Century
of Progress World’s Fair (destroyed).
Fig. 92
Hildreth Meiere, Onward March of Women (detail), 1933, Woman’s Building, Century of
Progress World’s Fair (destroyed).
Fig. 93 Gordon Stevenson, Historical Scenes: The Landing at Jamestown (full view), 1909.
Fig. 94 Edward Millman, Outstanding American Women: Jane Addams (detail), 1940.
Fig. 95 Mitchell Siporin, The Jane Addams Memorial, 1936, Tempera on Masonite, Mural
Fig. 96 Edward Millman, Democracy in Illinois, Jane Addams and Lincoln (detail), 1940.
Fig. 97 Edward Millman, Outstanding American Women: Grace Abbott (detail), 1940.
Fig. 98 Edward Millman, Outstanding American Women: Frances Perkins (detail), 1940.
Fig. 99
Sewing Classes at Lucy Flower High School, c. 1940. Photograph.
Fig. 100
Edward Millman, Outstanding American Women: Garment Workers (detail), 1940, Fresco,
Welcome Room, Lucy Flower High School, Chicago (in situ).
Fig. 101
Ida Abelman, My Father Reminisces, 1937, Lithograph.
Fig. 102
Flower students reading in the welcome hall, c. 1940, photograph.
Fig. 103
L. Harry Gage, History of the Written Word (right wall), 1910, Oil on canvas adhered to
wall, Auditorium, Friedrich Jahn Elementary School, Chicago, Illinois (in situ).
Fig. 104
Gustaf Dalstrom, History of Books (full view), 1937, Oil on canvas adhered to wall, Library
(now cafeteria), Frank L. Bennett Elementary School, Chicago, Illinois (in situ).
Fig. 105
Gustaf Dalstrom, History of Books: Schoolgirl-SchoolBoy (detail), 1937, Oil on canvas
adhered to wall, Library (now cafeteria), Frank L. Bennett Elementary School, Chicago,
Illinois (in situ).
Fig. 106
Edward Millman, Outstanding American Women: Harriet Beecher Stowe and Harriet Tubman
(detail), 1940, Fresco, Welcome Room, Lucy Flower High School, Chicago (in situ).
Fig. 107
Gustaf Dalstrom, Negro River Music (detail), 1941, Oil on canvas, St. Joseph, Missouri Post
Office. (in situ).
Fig. 106
Edward Millman, Outstanding American Women: Uncle Tom (detail), 1940, Fresco,
Welcome Room, Lucy Flower High School, Chicago (in situ).
Fig. 107
Florian Durzynski, Chopin and Foster (full views), 1941, Oil on canvas adhered to wall,
assembly hall, Frederic Chopin Elementary School, Chicagp (in situ).
Fig. 108
Florian Durzynski, Chopin and Foster (detail), 1941, Oil on canvas adhered to wall,
assembly hall, Frederic Chopin Elementary School, Chicago (in situ).
Fig. 109
James Newell, The Evolution of Western Civilization: Hands (detail), 1941, fresco, Evander
Childs High School, New York (Destroyed).
Fig. 110
Charles White, Progress of the American Negro, 1939-40, Oil on canvas, Collection of
Howard University.
Fig. 111
Lucile Ward, History of Chicago (Full view) 1940, Oil on canvas, assembly hall, Sidney
Sawyer Elementary School, Chicago (in situ).
Fig. 113
Lucile Ward, History of Chicago (panel one) 1940, Oil on canvas, assembly hall, Sidney
Sawyer Elementary School, Chicago (in situ).
Fig. 115
Flower students in the welcome hall, c. 1940, photograph.
Fig. 1
Edward Millman, Outstanding American Women, 1938-1940, Fresco, Welcome Hall, Lucy
Flower High School, Chicago, Illinois (in situ).
Fig. 42
Students Making a Mural, 1918, photograph, Chicago, Illinois
Fig. 116
Flower students in the welcome hall at Lucy Flower Career Academy, c. 2000,
photograph.
Fig. 117
Flower students in the welcome hall at Lucy Flower Career Academy, c. 1996,
photograph
Fig. 102
Flower students reading in the welcome hall, c. 1940, photograph.
Fig. 117
Armstrong Students as Marion Mahony Griffin and Walter Burley Griffin, Chicago: The
City in Art Exhibition and Performance, 1999, The Art Institute of Chicago, photograph.
Fig. 118
Chicago: The City in Art Exhibition and Reception, 1999, The Art Institute of Chicago,
photograph.