Photographs of William Hale Thompson political campaigns, Chicago, Ill., 1927 and 1931

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Photographs related to a mayoral campaign and activities of William Hale Thompson in Chicago, Ill. Includes an image of an elephant used in political advertising for his mayoral campaign in 1927. O...

Photographs related to a mayoral campaign and activities of William Hale Thompson in Chicago, Ill. Includes an image of an elephant used in political advertising for his mayoral campaign in 1927. Other images are from the mayoral campaign of 1931 and show Thompson posed with a burro, the horses and cowboys he sent into the City Council chambers, and his opponent for mayor, Anton Joseph Cermak, with James J. Walker, mayor of New York City.

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