Includes Art for the Public by Chicago Artists of the Federal Art Project at The Art Institute of Chicago and Saul Steinberg drawings at the Richard Gray Gallery.

Materials include a pageant program from Jewish Day at the Century of Progress, tickets from a Chicago Automobile Show and Riverview Amusement park, a circus program, a boxing show program and ticket stubs, and materials from businesses such as Illinois Bell, Walgreens, etc.

Programs from Chicago performances by Ted Shawn and his Male Dancers, Col. W. De Basil's Ballets Russe de Monte Carlo, Jooss European Ballet, and Graff Ballet.

Programs from Chicago performances by Ted Shawn and his Male Dancers, Agnes de Mille Dance Theatre, Jose Limon and Dance Company with Pauline Koner, the Royal Ballet, Moiseyev Dance Company, Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, and Russian Festival of Music and Dance at the Opera House Chicago.

Programs from Chicago performances by Royal Danish Ballet, Moiseyev Dance Company, Paul Taylor Dance Company, The Royal Ballet, Bolshoi Ballet, and Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev with the San Francisco Ballet.

Programs from Chicago performances by Bolshoi Ballet, Moiseyev Dance Company, and The Dance Theatre of Harlem.

Menus and postcards from Chicago area restaurants including Japanese Tea Gardens, Edgewater Beach Hotel, The Sarong, The Blackhawk, The Walnut Room, The Pit, and a coaster from Canadian Club Café at the Century of Progress Exposition.

Programs and advertisements for showings of Metro Goldwyn Mayer's Show of Shows the Great Ziegfeld at the Erlanger Theatre, The Good Earth at the Apollo Theatre, Michael Strogoff at RKO Palace, Captains Courageous at the Erlanger Theatre, Club de Femmes at the World Playhouse, and Pepe Le Moko at the World Playhouse.

Programs and flyers for Chicago performances by Johann Strauss III, Nathan Milstein, Artur Schnabel and Bronislaw Huberman, Chicago Civic Opera Orchestra, Eddy Duchin, Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians, Illinois Symphony Orchestra, Izler Solomon and Herman Clebanoff, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Programs for Chicago performances by Siegel Chamber Music Players, Vladimir Horowitz, The Weavers, and a “Concert of Negro Spirituals”.

Programs, playbills, and advertisements for theater performances at the Studebaker Theatre, Cort Theatre, The Globe Theatre at the Century of Progress, Shubert Grand Opera House, Goodman Theatre at the Art Institute of Chicago, The Blackstone Theatre, the Selwyn Theatre, etc.

Programs, playbills, and advertisements for theater performances at the Erlanger Theatre, Kenneth Sawyer Goodman Memorial Theatre, Harris Theatre, Federal Theatre Project at the Great Northern Theatre, Grand Opera House, Selwyn Theatre, Studebaker Theatre, and the Civic Theatre.

Programs and playbills for theater performances at the Auditorium Theatre, Kenneth Sawyer Goodman Memorial Theatre, Selwyn Theatre, Chicago Repertory Group, Grand Opera House, Blackstone Theatre, and the Studebaker Theatre.

Programs and playbills for theater performances at the Kenneth Sawyer Goodman Memorial Theatre, Selwyn Theatre, Harris Theatre, Erlanger Theatre, Grand Opera House, and the Studebaker Theatre.

Programs and playbills for theater performances at the Chicago Opera House, North Shore Music Theater, and Shubert Theatre.