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The Encyclopedia of Chicago (University Chicago Press, 2004) Haas, Shirley. 150 Years of Municipal Health Care in the City of Chicago: Board of Health, Department of Health, 1835–1985 (1985). Koehler, Gottfried. Annals of health and sanitation in Chicago (1919) online excerpts from primary sources. Koslow, Jennifer.
The huts were acquired for other purposes too, like a summerhouse or gazebo. At least the Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw and sexologist Havelock Ellis are known to have owned a revolving "writing hut". [1] Until the late 1940s tuberculosis patients were often put in tuberculosis huts. [6]
A hut is a small dwelling, which may be constructed of various local materials. Huts are a type of vernacular architecture because they are built of readily available materials such as wood, snow, ice, stone, grass, palm leaves, branches, clay, hides, fabric, or mud using techniques passed down through the generations.
The University of Chicago's Hyde Park campus began in 1890 through the efforts of the American Baptist Education Society and oil magnate John D. Rockefeller, who later called it "the best investment I ever made." [2] The University of Chicago held its first classes there on October 1, 1892. [3]
Huth collaborated with his University of Chicago colleague James Henry Breasted on a series of historical maps produced by the Denoyer-Geppert Co. (1916) that were sold both individually and eventually expanded and published in a series of atlases, including (with Breasted and Samuel B. Harding) European History Atlas: Ancient, Medieval and ...
The Encyclopedia of Chicago is a historical reference work covering Chicago and the entire Chicago metropolitan area published by the University of Chicago Press. Released in October 2004, the work is the result of a ten-year collaboration between the Newberry Library and the Chicago Historical Society .
The history of public health in the United states studies the US history of public health roles of the medical and nursing professions; scientific research; municipal sanitation; the agencies of local, state and federal governments; and private philanthropy. It looks at pandemics and epidemics and relevant responses with special attention to ...
Between 150,000 and 170,000 Quonset huts were manufactured during World War II, and the military sold its surplus huts to the public after the war. [6] Many remain standing throughout the United States as outbuildings, businesses, or even homes, and they are often seen at military museums and other places featuring World War II memorabilia.