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  • Lincoln Park
    Image | 1875Caption: "Lincoln Park, Chicago, view from the 'Hill.'"
  • Lincoln Park bathing beach
    Image | 1912also a children's bathing beach. It is reached by the North Clark Street electric car."
  • Line of fire victims
    Image | 1904Caption: "A line of victims of the fire awaiting identification."
  • Lithuanian Coat Makers Local 269
    Image | 1922Caption: "Officers and Executive Board Members Lithuanian Coat Makers Local 269".
  • Local Union No. 183 in parade
    Image | 1903Caption: "Local Union No. 183 in Chicago Labor Day Parade."
  • Log house at Kenilworth
    Image | 1910Caption: "Log house at Kenilworth, built by John Doyle Torn down about 1902 (Courtesy Chicago Historical Society)". Photograph is undated but probably was taken in the 1890s.
  • Long bathing beach
    Image | 1920Caption: "One of the long bathing beaches."
  • Looking northeast from near Terrace Row
    Image | 1910Caption: "Looking Northeast from near Terrace Row The Lake Front By Courtesy of the Chicago Historical Society"
  • Looking north from bridge
    Image | 1919Caption: "Looking north from bridge showing monumental arch treatment. Drawing by A. N. Rebori." From text: "Early in the previous year the North Central Business District Association (the name of which has since been shortened to North Central Association) ... invited a number of architects to meet with a committee of its organization with a view to enlisting their interest...
  • Looking north from Park Row
    Image | 1910Caption: "Looking North from Park Row By Courtesy of the Chicago Historical Society"
  • Looking north on State from Madison St.
    Image | 1893Caption: "[Engraved for The Standard Guide Company.] Looking north on State From Madison St. [See "Guide."]". From text: "[W]e will endeavor to do the great retail avenue of Chicago, or at least a portion of it, before the day closes. This thoroughfare ... is one of the grandest commercial arteries in the world. By looking up "State Street" in the Index, you will learn that ...
  • Looking south on Prairie Avenue
    Image | 1893at 1828 that of Daniel B. Shipman, and at 1834 that of Fernando Jones."
  • Louis Lingg, the bomb-maker
    Image | 1889Caption: "Louis Lingg, the bomb-maker. From a Photograph taken by the Police."
  • Louis Schultz
    Image | 1922Caption: "Louis Schultz, Vice President. Officers Chicago Joint Board". On photograph: "371 I. P. E. U."
  • Loyola Academy
    Image | 1910Caption: "Loyola Academy, Rogers Park High School Department of Loyola University (The first of the University Buildings being erected on this site)". Building is now part of the Loyola University campus and has been renamed Dumbach Hall.
  • Luncheon by Daniel Burnham
    Image | 1908Caption: "Luncheon by Daniel Hudson Burnham, architect, to his city-planning colleagues in business when the Plan of Chicago was completed in 1908. From left to right (upper row) : Edward B. Butler, Daniel Hudson Burnham, Charles D. Norton, Clyde M. Carr, Edward F. Carry, Edward H. Bennett, John de la Mataer (secretary), Charles G. Dawes. From left to right (lower row): John...
  • Maclay Hoyne States Attorney
    Image | 1916Caption: "Maclay Hoyne States Attorney for the County of Cook."
  • Mahlon D. Ogden property
    Image | 1910Caption: "The Mahlon D. Ogden Property By Courtesy of the Chicago Historical Society". Image is undated but appears to be from the 1860s.
  • Mail at Union Station
    Image | 1906Caption: "The fast mail at Union Station". From text: "Chicago to-day is the greatest mail center on the continent. Seven hundred tons of this concentrated commerce flow through her gates every twenty-four hours. From every point of the compass, it comes to this great hopper to be ground out, separated, and sent to its destination. Why is this? It is because Chicago is the f...
  • Main banking room
    Image | 1902From text: "Beyond the rooms of the savings bank … the visitor steps into the great spacious bank-room. It is a delight to the eye of even the veriest tyro in things artistic. Standing there in that magnificent doorway and viewing the splendid spectacle gleaming in the flood of light, which pours through the glass-paneled ceiling, the observer finds it difficult to realize t...
  • Main vestibule
    Image | 1910Caption: "Main Vestibule Loyola Academy."
  • Maj. Gen. Geo. Bell, Jr. and staff
    Image | 1933Caption: "Maj. Gen. Geo. Bell, Jr., and Staff on May 25, 1919"
  • Marine Company building
    Image | 1869The Marine Company of Chicago, a bank and foreign exchange dealer, was located at the corner of LaSalle and Lake streets.
  • Marquette Cross
    Image | 1920Caption: "The Marquette Cross."
  • Marshall Field & Co. advertisement
    Image | 1906Copy reads: "Marshall Field & Co. Warehouses, Polk St. and the River, Chicago"
  • Marvin Hughitt
    Image | 1912Caption: "Marvin Hughitt: President of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway since 1887."
  • Mary A. Bickerdyke
    Image | 1910Caption: "Mrs. Mary A. (""Mother"") Bickerdyke (Organizer of Military Hospitals and Friend of the Soldiers) By Courtesy of the Chicago Historical Society". Mary Bickerdyke was a volunteer nurse and hospital administrator for Union soldiers during the Civil War. From text: "I cannot refrain from going outside the local record to say a word about Mrs. Mary A. Bickerdyke, of Cl...
  • Mary Galloway Clybourne
    Image | 1910Caption: "Mr. and Mrs. Archibald Clybourne, types of the pioneer By Courtesy of the Chicago Historical Society". Photograph is undated but appears to be from the 1860s.
  • Masonic Temple
    Image | 1891Caption: "Masonic Temple."" From text: "It might be added that the Masonic Temple at the corner of State and Randolph Streets will when completed, prove one of the finest buildings in the world. A glance at our artist's sketch of the Masonic Temple as it will appear when completed, will afford a better criterion of the architectural beauties of the structure than any verbal ...
  • Masonic Temple
    Image | 1906Caption: "The Masonic Temple, situated at the corner of Randolph and State streets, is two hundred and sixty-five feet high. The number of its tenants would be sufficient to populate a fair sized village. Although not owned by the Masonic Order, several lodges meet here, paying an annual rental for the privilege. It contains fourteen passenger and two freight elevators." Bui...
  • May Day celebration 1921
    Image | 1921Caption: "May Day Celebration May First 1921. Second Regiment Armory. Arranged by the Chicago Joint Board, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America". On photograph: "371 I. P. E. U."
  • McCormick Theological Seminary
    Image | 1963all are part of a continual program of renewal."
  • M. C. Fisch
    Image | 1922Caption: "M. C. Fisch, Recording Secretary. Officers Chicago Joint Board". On photograph: "371 I. P. E. U."
  • McVicker's Theatre
    Image | 1910Caption: "McVicker's Theatre, "Home of the Tragic Muse" By Courtesy of the Chicago Historical Society"". Image undated but appears to be from the 1860s.
  • McVicker's Theatre
    Image | 1869and will accommodate about 2,000 people. The exterior, of which an engraving is presented on another page, presents a handsome front on Madison street. The interior arrangements are most complete and admirable. The seats are handsomely furnished, easy, and comfortable, affording an excellent view of the stage from all parts of the house. The stage is of an immense size, allo...
  • Medical examination
    Image | 1902From text: "Putting on a pair of carpet slippers, and arrayed in that informal fashion which prevailed in Eden before the fall, he presents himself to the skilled and keen discernment of the examining physician. This disciple of Galen having found the facts of the lodger's physical condition, writes them upon the same record card that holds his story given at the desk below....
  • Meeting at Hart, Schaffner & Marx
    Image | 1922Caption: "Trade Board, Hart, Schaffner and Marx: James Mullenbach, Chairman. Deputies representing the Union: Joseph Kaminsky, Joseph Glickman, Morris Spitzer, Oscar Elet, Michael Taylor, Samuel Geier. Deputies representing the Firm: Thomas Harwood, Carl Steffensen, Roy Jacobson, J. W. Washburn. Dolly Chimenti Verrachi on Witness Stand." On photograph: "371 I. P. E. U."
  • M. E. Page & Co. Confectioners
    Image | 1869From text: "M. E. Page & Co. Wholesale Confectioners! 24 Michigan Avenue, Manufacturers of Rock Candy, Gum, Cream and Cordial Work. The Confectionary House of this firm, a cut of which appears on the opposite page, is the largest and most complete concern of the kind in the United States. They occupy the whole of the immense building for the different departments of their bu...
  • Merchants' Farmers', and Mechanics' Savings Bank
    Image | 1869From text: "We give a view of the building occupied by the Merchants', Farmers and Mechanics' Savings Bank, No. 13 Clark street. This institution was chartered in 1861, and in 1864 removed to its present very appropriate and convenient edifice. The institution is in a highly flourishing condition, and is deservedly popular.""