Subject: Chicago Administration Building

This record contains two images of a trade card for the Straus-Emerich Outfitting Co. in Chicago, Illinois. The front of the card (Image 1) depicts a lithograph of the Chicago Administration Building. The back of the card (Image 2) features a full-color lithograph of the Straus-Emerich Outfitting Co. storefront at 1121, 1123, and 1125 Olive Street. The back also includes biographical information about Col. Martin Emerich. [Col. Martin Emerich was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1847. He received an English and German education and entered commercial life early. Before he was 21, he joined the family firm that did general merchandising in Baltimore and Washington. In 1882 he moved to St. Louis to start the Strauss-Emerich Outfitting Co., and then in 1884 he opened a branch in Chicago on State Street. He was involved in many societies, clubs, and charities, and was president of the District Grand Lodge No. 5, I. O. B. B. (1875), president of District Grand Lodge No. 3, Order Kesher, Shel Barsel (1878), Grand Master of the Imperial Order, Free Sons of Israel of the United States (1879), and Past Master of the A. O. U. W. He was also a director of the Chicago Orphan's Home for Jewish children.]