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Tremont House

Two house on Lill Avenue

Two houses on Fremont

Two spinning methods

Underground freight system

Underground tunnel railway

Union Club

Union Defense Committee of Chicago

Union League Club of Chicago

Union Stock Yards

University Club

University of Chicago

University of Chicago buildings

Urban Faber and Tom Daly

Victory parade on State Street

View northeast from Court House dome

View north from Court House dome

View north on LaSalle Street

View of Haymarket Square

View south from Court House dome

View south on Michigan Avenue

View southwest from Court House dome

View west on Adams Street

Wabash Avenue

Wacker Monument in Graceland Cemetery

Waiting to get into morgue

Walter L. Fisher

Washington Park Club

Washington Park clubhouse

Washington Park Club House

Washington Street, west from Dearborn

Water Tower

Water tower and pumphouse

Weir & Craig Mfg. Co. building

Wellington Hotel

Wells' Mastiff Shoes advertisement

Wendell Phillips High School

West Side Auditorium meeting

White Sox-Giants world tour in Egypt

White Sox team of 1906

  • Tremont House
    Image | 1869From text: "The visitor to Chicago can not fail to be attracted by the splendid and massive structure of the Tremont House, which is centrally located on the corner of Dearborn and Lake streets. This hotel is widely known as one of the most spacious and agreeable in the West. The internal arrangements admirably harmonize with the inviting aspect of the exterior. The Tremont ...
  • Two house on Lill Avenue
    Image | 1963Caption: "The simple wooden cottage at left--with its unusual second-story porch--contrasts with a brick two-flat building on Lill Street."
  • Two houses on Fremont
    Image | 1963Caption: "Side by side, two houses on Fremont represent widely different styles and periods of Chicago architecture. A balcony detail from the one at right is shown on page 31."
  • Two spinning methods
    Image | 1902Caption: "Two methods of Syrian spinning and European wheel." From text: "The spinning was illustrated by Italians, Greeks, Russians and Syrians, who spun with a distaff for holding the flax, and a spindle composed of a straight stick with one or two discs, and a small hook on the upper end to hold the thread. ... The museum is now able to show four variations of this earlie...
  • Underground freight system
    Image | 1906Caption: "Loaded freight train at street intersection". From text: "Chicago's great subway, or underground freight railroad, is now ready for operation. It is the most complete and extensive of any tunnel system in the world. … Every street in the down-town district, and many outside streets, are duplicated forty feet below the surface by the tunnel system. The entire subway...
  • Underground tunnel railway
    Image | 1903Caption: "The first mail arriving at the Post Office station of the Chicago subway or underground railroad, March 10, 1903."
  • Union Club
    Image | 1888From text: "The Union Club was organized in 1878 … In 1881, the present handsome club house was built. Admirably situated on Washington Place (at the corner of Dearborn Avenue) it attracts the attention of every passer-by by the grace and beauty of its proportions. As you pass through the broad front door, you enter a spacious hall with walls and ceiling of exquisitely carve...
  • Union Defense Committee of Chicago
    Image | 1910Caption: "The Union Defense Committee, Organized in 1861 (Through this Representative Body of Chicago Citizens the First Regiments were Placed in the Field, Civilians Organized, and Chicago's Reputation for "Doing Things" Established) By Courtesy of the Chicago Historical Society". Individuals portrayed are: Judge Thomas Drummond, Judge George Manierre, Julian Rumsey, John C...
  • Union League Club of Chicago
    Image | 1888to maintain the civil and political equality of all citizens in every section of our common country ... Its house, one of the finest in Chicago, arranged and furnished with every comfort and luxury, is situated on Jackson Street and Fourth Avenue, close to the Board of Trade."
  • Union Stock Yards
    Image | 1893some 200 acres being devoted to yards, etc., while the balance is occupied by railroad tracks and car sidings. Before you, as you enter the main arch-way, is a town with twenty miles of streets, twenty miles of water-troughs, fifty miles of feeding troughs and about seventy-five miles of water and drainage pipes... Just inside the entrance to the Union Stock Yards is the Exc...
  • University Club
    Image | 1920Caption: "The Mullion-windowed University Club." Located at 76 E. Monroe St.
  • University of Chicago
    Image | 1869From text: "University of Chicago [i]s located within four miles of the Court House, and on the route of the Cottage Grove horse-cars, within a few steps of the shores of Lake Michigan. It is conducted under the auspices of the Baptist denomination, but is founded on a broad and liberal basis. It is built on a beautiful tract of ground donated by Hon. S. A. Douglas. It was f...
  • University of Chicago buildings
    Image | 1906Labels for five photographs in montage: "A view along 57th St.", "The Hull Biological Laboratories", "The Womens Dormitories", "The Divinity Dormitories", and "The Bartlett Gymnasium". The building depicted in the "view along 57th" is Hitchcock Hall.
  • Urban Faber and Tom Daly
    Image | 1914Caption: "Snapped on the world tour--Urban Faber (left) who pitched an 11-inning contest before King George of England
  • Victory parade on State Street
    Image | 1910-1919Caption: "Chicago's latest department store, with victory parade of returning forces."
  • View northeast from Court House dome
    Image | 1910Caption: "Views from the Court House dome in 1858 Clark and Randolph Streets By Courtesy of the Chicago Historical Society"
  • View north from Court House dome
    Image | 1910Lake Michigan is in the distance.
  • View north on LaSalle Street
    Image | 1920Caption: "The Wall Street of Chicago." View is looking north up LaSalle Street from West Jackson Blvd.
  • View of Haymarket Square
    Image | 1912Caption: "A view of Haymarket Square."
  • View south from Court House dome
    Image | 1910Caption: "Views from the Court House dome in 1858 Washington and La Salle Streets (Looking South and Southwest) By Courtesy of the Chicago Historical Society". View appears to be looking nearly due south.
  • View south on Michigan Avenue
    Image | 1920Caption: "The Lakeside Glory of Chicago." View is looking south on Michigan Avenue from Randolph Street.
  • View southwest from Court House dome
    Image | 1910Caption: "Views from the Court House dome in 1858 La Salle and Washington Streets (Looking South and Southwest) By Courtesy of the Chicago Historical Society". View to the southwest, with masts of ships in the Chicago River in distance.
  • View west on Adams Street
    Image | 1920Peoples Gas Building, at right.
  • Wabash Avenue
    Image | 1912Caption: "In the Shopping District--Wabash Avenue." View is looking northwest up Wabash Avenue from Monroe Street.
  • Wacker Monument in Graceland Cemetery
    Image | 1893Caption: "Graceland.--Monument of Frederick and Catharine Wacker." From text: "Before the close of the year 1893 the number of the silent inhabitants of the necropolis Graceland will have reached 60,000. This cemetery is justly famed as one of the finest among Chicago's cities of the dead, and occupies a similar rank here as does Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn, Spring Grove ...
  • Waiting to get into morgue
    Image | 1904Caption: "Waiting their turn to get into the morgue."
  • Walter L. Fisher
    Image | 1907From text: " … and Walter L. Fisher, special traction counsel, who reduced to concrete form the suggestions of former years and in conjunction with Mayor Dunne and the Local Transportation Committee negotiated with the Companies a working agreement to be in force pending such purchase, probably the best in traction history anywhere."
  • Washington Park Club
    Image | 1888From text: "The objects of the organization called the Washington Park Club, which was incorporated in 1883, are to promote good fellowship among its members by providing a club house and pleasure grounds for their entertainment where at all times they may meet for social intercourse, and to encourage, by providing the proper facilities, raising, improving, breeding, trainin...
  • Washington Park clubhouse
    Image | 1883Caption: "Club-House at Washington Park." From text: "One of the most important and certainly the most aristocratic clubs in the city is the new Washington Park Club. Not only in the turf world, but in the social as well, this institution takes precedence."
  • Washington Park Club House
    Image | 1906Caption: "Washington Park Club House, and "Derby Day"[.] The most notable of racing tracks in Chicago is Washington Park, especially famous for its "Derby Day," usually run some Saturday in June. This event attracts from seventy-five thousand to one hundred thousand people, and the splendid turn-outs of beauty and fashion and gay equipages rival in interest the great racing ...
  • Washington Street, west from Dearborn
    Image | 1910Caption: "Street scenes in the "Bygone Days" Washington Street, Looking West from Dearborn By Courtesy of the Chicago Historical Society". Photograph is undated but appears to be from the 1860s.
  • Water Tower
    Image | 1906Caption: "The Water Tower[.] The North Water Works are situated on Chicago Avenue near the lake shore. Here a stone tower, one hundred and sixty feet high, receives water from the lake forced by four engines having a pumping capacity of ninety-nine million gallons daily. The water is conveyed to the tower through a brick tunnel five feet in diameter which extends two miles o...
  • Water tower and pumphouse
    Image | 1875Caption: "Chicago Water Works."
  • Weir & Craig Mfg. Co. building
    Image | 1891Writing on the side of building, in image: "Machine shop & brass foundry. Plumbers. Steam & gas fitters--Supplies. Weir & Craig Mfg. Company. Iron foundery." From text: "It is only reasonable that in Chicago, which is the center of so many packing houses, there should be a manufactory of packing house machinery, and a firm which makes a speciality of this is the Weir & Craig...
  • Wellington Hotel
    Image | 1893Caption: "[Engraved for The Standard Guide Company.] Wellington Hotel, Wabash Ave. and Jackson St. [See "Hotels."]" From text: "Located on Wabash avenue and Jackson street. This hotel, although only known to the public for about one year is now recognized as one of the ultra fashionable hotels of the city. The hotel is magnificently arranged, decorated and furnished in the h...
  • Wells' Mastiff Shoes advertisement
    Image | 1906Copy reads: "Wells' Mastiff Shoes Best Line on Earth For Men, boys, Youths, Women, Misses, & Children. Made up in all popular leathers for every member of the household. Stylish-Satisfactory-Popular Largest Manufacturers of Reliable footwear [in] the country Send for catalogue M. D. Wells Co. Chicago"
  • Wendell Phillips High School
    Image | 1912Caption: "Wendell Phillips High School: Thirty-ninth Street and Prairie Avenue. By courtesy of the Board of Education".
  • West Side Auditorium meeting
    Image | 1921Caption: "Meeting of all of Joint Board Delegates, Local Executives and Shop Chairmen. West Side Auditorium, Jan. 13, 1921. Presented to Captains and Lieutenants of the $1,000,000 Lockout Fund Chicago Joint Board Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America." On photograph: "371 I. P. E. U."
  • White Sox-Giants world tour in Egypt
    Image | 1914Caption: "A 'family group' of the Sox-Giants world tourists in front of the Sphinx. Mr. and Mrs. Comiskey may be seen in the center, mounted on 'ships of the desert.'"
  • White Sox team of 1906
    Image | 1906Caption: "The White Sox of 1906, 'The Hitless Wonders,' world's champions. Upper row, left to right, Hart, E. McFarland, Davis, Comiskey, Isbell, Sullivan, White. Middle row: Walsh, Smith, Roth, Hahn, Dundon, Donahue, O'Neill, Tannehill, Rohe. Lower row: Towne, Altrock, Owen, Hallman, Dougherty, Jones, Fiene."
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