Box 1
Container
Contains 24 Results:
Advertisements - Bill postings, 1925, undated
File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
Collection of materials about the Riverview Amusement Park, which operated in Chicago from 1904 to 1967. Materials reflect attitudes surrounding leisure activities, pop culture, and social customs from the early to mid-twentieth century.Materials include aerial photographs, blueprints, photographs of patrons, employees, and rides, advertising materials and publicity, brochures, newspaper clippings, correspondence, tickets, catalogs, receipts, meeting minutes, patents, and...
Dates:
1925; undated
Aerial view of park, 1950s
File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
Collection of materials about the Riverview Amusement Park, which operated in Chicago from 1904 to 1967. Materials reflect attitudes surrounding leisure activities, pop culture, and social customs from the early to mid-twentieth century.Materials include aerial photographs, blueprints, photographs of patrons, employees, and rides, advertising materials and publicity, brochures, newspaper clippings, correspondence, tickets, catalogs, receipts, meeting minutes, patents, and...
Dates:
1950s
Amusement Parks (other than Riverview)
File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
Collection of materials about the Riverview Amusement Park, which operated in Chicago from 1904 to 1967. Materials reflect attitudes surrounding leisure activities, pop culture, and social customs from the early to mid-twentieth century.Materials include aerial photographs, blueprints, photographs of patrons, employees, and rides, advertising materials and publicity, brochures, newspaper clippings, correspondence, tickets, catalogs, receipts, meeting minutes, patents, and...
Articles - "An Evening at Riverview," Electric City, Aug. 1904 [reproduction]
File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
Collection of materials about the Riverview Amusement Park, which operated in Chicago from 1904 to 1967. Materials reflect attitudes surrounding leisure activities, pop culture, and social customs from the early to mid-twentieth century.Materials include aerial photographs, blueprints, photographs of patrons, employees, and rides, advertising materials and publicity, brochures, newspaper clippings, correspondence, tickets, catalogs, receipts, meeting minutes, patents, and...
Dates:
Aug. 1904 [reproduction]
Articles - "The Safe Playground of Four Generations - Chicago's Riverview Park", The Wood Saver [and related 1968 correspondence], Sept. 1950
File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
Collection of materials about the Riverview Amusement Park, which operated in Chicago from 1904 to 1967. Materials reflect attitudes surrounding leisure activities, pop culture, and social customs from the early to mid-twentieth century.Materials include aerial photographs, blueprints, photographs of patrons, employees, and rides, advertising materials and publicity, brochures, newspaper clippings, correspondence, tickets, catalogs, receipts, meeting minutes, patents, and...
Dates:
Sept. 1950
Articles - "All For Fun," Monsanto Magazine; "This Is Riverview," Chicago Magazine; "Hell-Bent For Nowhere!" Modern Man Magazine, 1950, 1954
File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
Collection of materials about the Riverview Amusement Park, which operated in Chicago from 1904 to 1967. Materials reflect attitudes surrounding leisure activities, pop culture, and social customs from the early to mid-twentieth century.Materials include aerial photographs, blueprints, photographs of patrons, employees, and rides, advertising materials and publicity, brochures, newspaper clippings, correspondence, tickets, catalogs, receipts, meeting minutes, patents, and...
Dates:
1950; 1954
Articles - Herman Kogan, "Midwest Magazine of the Chicago Sun-Times", 1967
File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
Collection of materials about the Riverview Amusement Park, which operated in Chicago from 1904 to 1967. Materials reflect attitudes surrounding leisure activities, pop culture, and social customs from the early to mid-twentieth century.Materials include aerial photographs, blueprints, photographs of patrons, employees, and rides, advertising materials and publicity, brochures, newspaper clippings, correspondence, tickets, catalogs, receipts, meeting minutes, patents, and...
Dates:
1967
Articles - About Riverview by Dolores Haugh, May 1968
File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
Collection of materials about the Riverview Amusement Park, which operated in Chicago from 1904 to 1967. Materials reflect attitudes surrounding leisure activities, pop culture, and social customs from the early to mid-twentieth century.Materials include aerial photographs, blueprints, photographs of patrons, employees, and rides, advertising materials and publicity, brochures, newspaper clippings, correspondence, tickets, catalogs, receipts, meeting minutes, patents, and...
Dates:
May 1968
Articles - Keen-ager News, 1972
File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
Collection of materials about the Riverview Amusement Park, which operated in Chicago from 1904 to 1967. Materials reflect attitudes surrounding leisure activities, pop culture, and social customs from the early to mid-twentieth century.Materials include aerial photographs, blueprints, photographs of patrons, employees, and rides, advertising materials and publicity, brochures, newspaper clippings, correspondence, tickets, catalogs, receipts, meeting minutes, patents, and...
Dates:
1972
Articles - John R. Powers, "Requiem for Riverview," The Chicagoan, 1974
File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
Collection of materials about the Riverview Amusement Park, which operated in Chicago from 1904 to 1967. Materials reflect attitudes surrounding leisure activities, pop culture, and social customs from the early to mid-twentieth century.Materials include aerial photographs, blueprints, photographs of patrons, employees, and rides, advertising materials and publicity, brochures, newspaper clippings, correspondence, tickets, catalogs, receipts, meeting minutes, patents, and...
Dates:
1974
Articles - Abraham Aamidor, "Riverview Revisited," In Chicagoland, Nov. 1976
File — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
Collection of materials about the Riverview Amusement Park, which operated in Chicago from 1904 to 1967. Materials reflect attitudes surrounding leisure activities, pop culture, and social customs from the early to mid-twentieth century.Materials include aerial photographs, blueprints, photographs of patrons, employees, and rides, advertising materials and publicity, brochures, newspaper clippings, correspondence, tickets, catalogs, receipts, meeting minutes, patents, and...
Dates:
Nov. 1976
Giant Safety Racing Coaster passenger statistics for 1911-1923 [previously identified as attendance records for park], undated
File — Box: 1, Folder: 12
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
Collection of materials about the Riverview Amusement Park, which operated in Chicago from 1904 to 1967. Materials reflect attitudes surrounding leisure activities, pop culture, and social customs from the early to mid-twentieth century.Materials include aerial photographs, blueprints, photographs of patrons, employees, and rides, advertising materials and publicity, brochures, newspaper clippings, correspondence, tickets, catalogs, receipts, meeting minutes, patents, and...
Dates:
undated
Bills and receipts, 1905
File — Box: 1, Folder: 13
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
Collection of materials about the Riverview Amusement Park, which operated in Chicago from 1904 to 1967. Materials reflect attitudes surrounding leisure activities, pop culture, and social customs from the early to mid-twentieth century.Materials include aerial photographs, blueprints, photographs of patrons, employees, and rides, advertising materials and publicity, brochures, newspaper clippings, correspondence, tickets, catalogs, receipts, meeting minutes, patents, and...
Dates:
1905
Bills and receipts, 1906
File — Box: 1, Folder: 14
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
Collection of materials about the Riverview Amusement Park, which operated in Chicago from 1904 to 1967. Materials reflect attitudes surrounding leisure activities, pop culture, and social customs from the early to mid-twentieth century.Materials include aerial photographs, blueprints, photographs of patrons, employees, and rides, advertising materials and publicity, brochures, newspaper clippings, correspondence, tickets, catalogs, receipts, meeting minutes, patents, and...
Dates:
1906
Bills and receipts - Rides, 1908
File — Box: 1, Folder: 15
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
Collection of materials about the Riverview Amusement Park, which operated in Chicago from 1904 to 1967. Materials reflect attitudes surrounding leisure activities, pop culture, and social customs from the early to mid-twentieth century.Materials include aerial photographs, blueprints, photographs of patrons, employees, and rides, advertising materials and publicity, brochures, newspaper clippings, correspondence, tickets, catalogs, receipts, meeting minutes, patents, and...
Dates:
1908
Bills and receipts, 1911-1912
File — Box: 1, Folder: 16
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
Collection of materials about the Riverview Amusement Park, which operated in Chicago from 1904 to 1967. Materials reflect attitudes surrounding leisure activities, pop culture, and social customs from the early to mid-twentieth century.Materials include aerial photographs, blueprints, photographs of patrons, employees, and rides, advertising materials and publicity, brochures, newspaper clippings, correspondence, tickets, catalogs, receipts, meeting minutes, patents, and...
Dates:
1911-1912
Brochure - "Building Good Will" [reproduction], 1930
File — Box: 1, Folder: 17
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
Collection of materials about the Riverview Amusement Park, which operated in Chicago from 1904 to 1967. Materials reflect attitudes surrounding leisure activities, pop culture, and social customs from the early to mid-twentieth century.Materials include aerial photographs, blueprints, photographs of patrons, employees, and rides, advertising materials and publicity, brochures, newspaper clippings, correspondence, tickets, catalogs, receipts, meeting minutes, patents, and...
Dates:
1930
Brochure - "Chicago's Riverview Exposition" [reproduction], 1910-1911
File — Box: 1, Folder: 18
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
Collection of materials about the Riverview Amusement Park, which operated in Chicago from 1904 to 1967. Materials reflect attitudes surrounding leisure activities, pop culture, and social customs from the early to mid-twentieth century.Materials include aerial photographs, blueprints, photographs of patrons, employees, and rides, advertising materials and publicity, brochures, newspaper clippings, correspondence, tickets, catalogs, receipts, meeting minutes, patents, and...
Dates:
1910-1911
Brochures - Carnaval de Nice [France], 1924
File — Box: 1, Folder: 19
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
Collection of materials about the Riverview Amusement Park, which operated in Chicago from 1904 to 1967. Materials reflect attitudes surrounding leisure activities, pop culture, and social customs from the early to mid-twentieth century.Materials include aerial photographs, blueprints, photographs of patrons, employees, and rides, advertising materials and publicity, brochures, newspaper clippings, correspondence, tickets, catalogs, receipts, meeting minutes, patents, and...
Dates:
1924
Brochures - Sales, advertising, business cards (non Riverview), 1920s-1930s, undated
File — Box: 1, Folder: 20
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
Collection of materials about the Riverview Amusement Park, which operated in Chicago from 1904 to 1967. Materials reflect attitudes surrounding leisure activities, pop culture, and social customs from the early to mid-twentieth century.Materials include aerial photographs, blueprints, photographs of patrons, employees, and rides, advertising materials and publicity, brochures, newspaper clippings, correspondence, tickets, catalogs, receipts, meeting minutes, patents, and...
Dates:
1920s-1930s; undated
Buildings lists (with year built), 1961-1965
File — Box: 1, Folder: 21
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
Collection of materials about the Riverview Amusement Park, which operated in Chicago from 1904 to 1967. Materials reflect attitudes surrounding leisure activities, pop culture, and social customs from the early to mid-twentieth century.Materials include aerial photographs, blueprints, photographs of patrons, employees, and rides, advertising materials and publicity, brochures, newspaper clippings, correspondence, tickets, catalogs, receipts, meeting minutes, patents, and...
Dates:
1961-1965
Casey Twins [Ice Follies duo], undated
File — Box: 1, Folder: 22
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
Collection of materials about the Riverview Amusement Park, which operated in Chicago from 1904 to 1967. Materials reflect attitudes surrounding leisure activities, pop culture, and social customs from the early to mid-twentieth century.Materials include aerial photographs, blueprints, photographs of patrons, employees, and rides, advertising materials and publicity, brochures, newspaper clippings, correspondence, tickets, catalogs, receipts, meeting minutes, patents, and...
Dates:
undated
Catalogs - Cagney Bros. Miniature Railroads, 1930
File — Box: 1, Folder: 23
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
Collection of materials about the Riverview Amusement Park, which operated in Chicago from 1904 to 1967. Materials reflect attitudes surrounding leisure activities, pop culture, and social customs from the early to mid-twentieth century.Materials include aerial photographs, blueprints, photographs of patrons, employees, and rides, advertising materials and publicity, brochures, newspaper clippings, correspondence, tickets, catalogs, receipts, meeting minutes, patents, and...
Dates:
1930
Catalogs - Industrial Railway & Locomotive Works, Inc., 1929
File — Box: 1, Folder: 24
Scope and Content of the Collection
From the Collection:
Collection of materials about the Riverview Amusement Park, which operated in Chicago from 1904 to 1967. Materials reflect attitudes surrounding leisure activities, pop culture, and social customs from the early to mid-twentieth century.Materials include aerial photographs, blueprints, photographs of patrons, employees, and rides, advertising materials and publicity, brochures, newspaper clippings, correspondence, tickets, catalogs, receipts, meeting minutes, patents, and...
Dates:
1929