Tag: Immigrants

Coltrane House, Chicago Hospital Called Endangered

WASHINGTON, D.C (AP).- Jazz musician John Coltrane’s home on Long Island, N.Y., a cloverleaf-shaped Chicago hospital building and a Pillsbury plant in Minneapolis that once was the world’s most advanced flour mill are among America’s 11 Most Endangered…

Winterthur Museum Acquires One of the Earliest Known American Depictions of the Easter Bunny

WINTERTHUR, DE – Winterthur Museum recently acquired one of the earliest known American depictions of the Easter Bunny, which was sold at Pook & Pook auction house in Downingtown , Pennsylvania . Together with the Christmas tree, the custom of t…

Hand-Sculpted Goat Atop a Stack of Packing Crates Presented as Winner of Spitalfields Sculpture Prize

LONDON.- Kenny Hunter’s hand-sculpted goat stands atop a stack of packing crates to create the 3.5metre high I Goat, which was inspired by Spitalfields’ rich, ongoing social history. I Goat is sited in one of London’s most high profile public spa…

New Exhibits at Chicago’s Hull House Museum

CHICAGO (AP).- At the turn of the 20th century, thousands of immigrants sought out Jane Addams’ Hull House in Chicago. There they received medical treatment at settlement house clinics, learned job skills through training classes and found community at…

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