Portrait of Charles Merriam c.1910. Wikimedia Commons.

Photograph appeared in The World’s Work A History of Our Time, Volume XIX – November 1909 to April 1910. Edited by Walter Hines Page.

Caption accompanying photograph: Mr. Charles E. Merriam. Professor in the University of Chicago and City Alderman, now heading an investigating commission which has unearthed gross frauds in the municipal government.