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A walking guide to the history & features of Burnham Park, Chicago, Illinois
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Previous issue date: 20122010 Public Engagement Grant to the Illinois State Geological Survey from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Public Engagement, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.Ope
Personal Papers (MS 80-0002)
No full textLetter from Lord & Burnham to D. W. Kempner, letting him know that Mr. Impey will call on him
Interview of Mary C. Burnham on her service in the U.S. Army Medical Specialist Corps during WWII
No full textMary C. Burnham talks about serving as a dietitian in the U.S. Army Medical Specialist Corps during World War Two and later in occupied Japan and stateside military hospitals, over a twenty-year Army career. Burnham discusses her youth in Milwaukee, her college years, her early work life in Chicago, enlisting in the Army in 1942 soon after Pearl Harbor, training at a base in Texas, shipping out to the Pacific Theater, her initial posting to Espiritu Santo in the New Hebrides Islands, and her life on the base and her duties as a dietitian. She says that she was later transferred to India and after serving in hospitals there, was sent back to the states via the Middle East and North Africa. During the Korean war, Burnham was again sent overseas and served as part of the U.S. Army of Occupation in Japan. She describes her three years of service in Japan, and says that she was very happy to finally be sent back to the states to serve in a series of military hospitals for the rest of her career. Burnham is interviewed by Jane Piatt
Personal Papers (MS 80-0002)
No full textLetter from Lord & Burnham to D. W. Kempner discussing how to clarify an order of aluminum bar caps
Burnham, C.
No full textCarte de Visite of C. Burnham, 5th Maine Infantry; From the Janet & Bedford Hayes Collectionhttps://digitalmaine.com/arc_civilwarportraits/3035/thumbnail.jp
Burnham, C.
No full textCarte de Visite of C. Burnham, 5th Maine Infantry; From the Janet & Bedford Hayes Collectionhttps://digitalmaine.com/arc_civilwarportraits/3035/thumbnail.jp
Letter Written by Carlton Burnham to the Bryant College Service Club Dated December 15, 1942
No full text[Transcription begins] U. S. NAVAL AIR STATION JACKSONVILLE
Dec. 15, 1942
Gentlemen:
I thank you very much for your fine Christmas gift. We fellows in the service appreciate such thoughts and kind deeds rendered by such organizations as yours.
I received this package in very good condition and in time for Christmas.
I will keep you informed of any change of address.
Yours truly, Carlton Burnham S 2/c Ser. School, 2M9W18 U. S. N. A. S. Jacksonville, Florida [Transcription ends
Personal Papers (MS 80-0002)
No full textLetter from C. Walter Impey, of Lord & Burnham, to D. W. Kempner, discussing the return of aluminum bar caps and No. 101 compound
Burnham, Hiram
No full textHiram Burnham (1814 – September 29, 1864) was an officer in the Union Army who commanded a regiment and then a brigade in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War. He was killed in battle while assaulting Confederate positions near Richmond, Virginia, during the Battle of Chaffin\u27s Farm. Hiram Burnham was born in Narraguagus, later Cherryfield, Maine, in 1814. He formed and led a militia company as its captain in the Aroostook War of 1839. He subsequently worked as a lumberman and owned a sawmill. Active in local politics, he held public office as a county commissioner and a coroner. Burnham is described as a burly man with a strong voice, able to make himself heard on a battlefield. Early in the war Burnham became lieutenant colonel of the 6th Maine Infantry on July 16, 1861. He was promoted to the rank of colonel on December 12 of that year. He served with the Army of the Potomac in the Peninsula Campaign, starting out in Brig. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock\u27s brigade in a division of the IV Corps under Brig. Gen. William F. Smith. This division later became part of the VI Corps. At the Battle of Crampton\u27s Gap and the Battle of Antietam, Burnham led his regiment in the 1sthttps://digicom.bpl.lib.me.us/spc_cw_cdv/1007/thumbnail.jp
Bad habits drinking, smoking, taking drugs, gambling, sexual misbehavior, and swearing in American history
No full text"The vast majority of Americans have, at one point or another, gotten drunk, smoked, dabbled with drugs, gambled, sworn, or engaged in adultery. During the 1800s, "respectable" people struggled to control these behaviors, labeling them "bad" and the people who indulged in them unrespectable. In the twentieth century, these minor vices were transformed into a societal complex of enormous and pervasive influence. Yet the general belief persists that these activities remain merely harmless "bad habits," individual transgressions more than social problems. Not so, argues distinguished historian John C. Burnham in this pioneering study." "In Bad Habits, Burnham traces the growth of a veritable minor vice-industrial complex illustrating the special heritage shared by these vices. As this vice complex grew, activities that might have been harmless, natural, and sociable fun resulted in fundamental social change. When Burnham set out to explore the influence of these bad habits on American society, he sought to discover why so many "good" people engaged in activities that many, including they themselves, considered "bad." What he found, however, was a coalition of economic and social interests in which the single minded quest for profit allied with the values of the Victorian saloon underworld and bohemian rebelliousness. This combination radically inverted common American standards of personal conduct.""Bad Habits, then, describes, in words and pictures how more and more Americans learned to value hedonism and self-gratification - to smoke and swear during World War I, to admire cabaret night life, and to reject schoolmarmish standards in the age of Prohibition. Tracing the evolution of each of the bad habits, Burnham tells how liquor control boards encouraged the consumption of alcohol; how alcoholic beverage producers got their workers deferred from the draft during World War II; how convenience stores and accounting firms pursued profits by pushing legalized gambling; how "swinging" Playboy bankrolled a drug advocacy group; how advertising and television made the Marlboro man a national hero; how drug paraphernalia were promoted by national advertisers; how a practical joker/drug addict caused a shortage of kitty litter on Long Island; and how the evolution of an entire sex therapy industry helped turn sexual experience into a new kind of commodity. Altogether, a lot of people made a lot of money. But what, the author asks, did these changes cost American society?" "This illustrated tour de force by one of the most distinctive and important voices in social history reveals John C. Burnham at his provocative and controversial best."--BOOK JACKE
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