Charles A. Comiskey
Image | 1919Caption: "Frank Wing, cartoonist on the staff of the St. Paul Dispatch, and author of the well-known 'The Fotygraft Album,' is guilty of the above addition to the Comiskey gallery. Says Frank: 'This here's Charley Comiskey, th' baseball man, when he lived here in St. Paul and managed th' Saints, as they call our team.'"
Charles A. Comiskey
Image | 1917Caption: "The Old Roman ready for a hike in the northern woods (1917)." From text: "Wherever the Sox go, at trainload of camp followers are certain to be on the trail. Many found it inconvenient to go in the spring. For these 'Commy' instituted the annual fall hegiras to the northern woods. Prominent men in all walks of life and from different sections of the country have be...
Charles A. Comiskey and A. G. Spalding
Image | 1913Caption: "Charles A. Comiskey (left) and A. G. Spalding snapped together for the first and only time. This meeting took place at Comiskey Park just before the famous White Sox-Giants world tour."
Charles A. Comiskey as St. Louis Browns player-manager
Image | 1919Caption: "Comiskey as manager and first-baseman of the St. Louis Browns." Image appears to be an enhanced photograph.
Charles A. Comiskey at opening of new park
Image | 1910Caption: "Comiskey at the opening of his $1,000,000 baseball park in 1910."
Charles H. Burr
Image | 1922Caption: "Charles H. Burr, Secretary-Treasurer. Officers Chicago Joint Board". On photograph: "371 I. P. E. U."
Charles H. Reed
Image | 1910Caption: "Charles H. Reed, Prosecuting Attorney (""Charley" Reed was the Unwilling Victim of the Arnold-Swett "Lincoln Séance," and Later of His Own too Great Popularity)"
Charles H. Wacker
Image | 1919Caption: "Charles H. Wacker, Chairman Chicago Plan Commission."
Charles W. Fairbanks, C. A. Coey, Judge Hanecy
Image | 1912Caption: "Ex-Vice President Fairbanks, C. A. Coey, and Judge Hanecy"
Chicago A Century of Progress
Image | 1933Text: "Chicago 1833 1933 A Century of Progress"
Chicago and Northwestern terminal
Image | 1912Caption: "Passenger Terminal, Chicago Chicago and North Western Railway"
Chicago, before the fire
Image | 1933Caption: "Chicago, as It Was Before the Fire"
Chicago Brotherhood team of 1890
Image | 1890Caption: "One of the greatest combinations of stars ever put together--Comiskey's Chicago Brotherhood team of 1890."
Chicago City Council Chambers
Image | 1908
Chicago Club
Image | 1888Caption: "Chicago Club, Monroe St." From text: "After the fire the present building was erected on Monroe Street, just opposite the Palmer House."
Chicago Commons' playground
Image | 1901Caption: "Chicago Commons' Play Ground. The only Playground for 12,000 Children." From text: "The summer activities of Chicago Commons have grown very normally in both variety and expense. … [T]he work enlarged to include … the establishment of the Chicago Commons playground (20 X 160 feet,) open every afternoon and all day Sunday under the supervision of residents, with an ...
Chicago Commons Woman's Club
Image | 1901From text: "[T]he Chicago Commons Woman's Club … now numbers about 125 women, and includes the representatives of twelve or fifteen nationalities and many different sects. Its Tuesday afternoon meetings, (our flash-light view of the latest, gives some idea of their popularity and pleasure), is an event each week in the lives of its members and the house."
Chicago For the Tourist
Image | 1912Book cover. Full text: "Chicago For the Tourist Reached by the Illinois Central R. R." Image depicts the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial in Lincoln Park.
Chicago For the Tourist
Image | 1912Book cover. Full text: "Chicago For The Tourist Reached by the Illinois Central R. R." Image depicts Grant Park, with the Logan Statue in the foreground, and the Illinois Central Station at 11th Street and S. Michigan Avenue behind.
Chicago from the air
Image | 1930Caption: "Chicago from the Air, Showing Lake Michigan, Grant Park and Michigan Boulevard". From text: "Europeans have sauntered up Michigan Avenue at theatre time, when the moon was climbing out of the lake, silhouetting the classic lions of the Art Institute against a Maxfield Parrish sky, glorifying the Grecian peristyle with its silver radiance, and they have pronounced i...
Chicago general offices
Image | 1908
Chicago harbor
Image | 1869From text: "In 1833 Congress made the first appropriation of $30,000 to improve the harbor. The north pier was run out a short distance and a light-house erected. An embankment was made to cut off the river from her old channel, which had previously emptied into the lake near the foot of Madison street. This work was commenced in the summer of 1833, and vigorously pushed for...
Chicago Homeopathic College
Image | 1883From text: "The Chicago Homeopathic Medical College, situated on the corner of Wood and York streets, directly opposite the great Cook County Hospital, is one of the most elegant and commodious educational edifices in the city. It is generally conceded to be the largest and best equipped homeopathic building in this country."
Chicago in the Fifties
Image | 1850-1859Caption: "Chicago in the Fifties. Original owned by Chicago Historical Society"
Chicago in the Sixties
Image | 1910Caption: "Bird's-eye view of Chicago in the Sixties"
Chicago National Bank
Image | 1902From text: "When the new building of the Chicago National Bank was projected it was aimed to produce a structure which would immediately suggest to the observer that it was a bank. How well that idea has been carried out by Jenney & Mundie, the architects, it needs but a glance at the bank building to show. Of the Corinthian order of architecture, with ninety feet front on M...
Chicago of To-day cover
Image | 1891Text on cover: "Chicago of To-Day: The Metropolis of the West."
Chicago Opera House
Image | 1893Caption: "[Engraved for The Standard Guide Company.] Entrance to the Chicago Opera House. [See "Amusements."]". From text: "Located in the Chicago Opera House building, a magnificent structure, southwest corner of Clark and Washington streets, opposite the Court-house ... The theatre was built for Mr. Henderson, and arranged with the idea in mind of the subsequent production...
Chicago Plan street improvements
Image | 1919Caption: "Map showing the Chicago Plan improvements proposed for the heart of the city in connection with the central street system."
Chicago Public Library
Image | 1911Caption: "The Chicago Public Library". From text: "The Chicago Public Library is a free public institution, established under the Illinois library law of 1872, and maintained by the city as part of its public educational system. It derives its revenue from an annual library tax of approximately four-tenths of a mill, and is governed by a Board of Directors of nine members ap...
The Chicago Riot book cover
Image | 1886Text on cover: "The Chicago Riot: A record of the Terrible Scenes of May 4, 1886. Chicago and New York: Belford, Clarke & Co., 1886."
Chicago River
Image | 1875Caption: "Chicago River, from Lake Street Bridge."
Chicago River
Image | 1906Caption: "The Chicago River formerly emptied into Lake Michigan, but with the digging of the drainage canal, the current was reversed and the waters now find their way into the Mississippi, much to the disgust of St. Louis, transforming the once ill-smelling stream into a clean river. It is narrow and deep, but easily entered by the largest lake steamers. The question of low...
Chicago River before 1871
Image | 1860-1869Caption: "Looking east from Rush Street bridge in days before the Great Fire, when a forest of masts distinguished the traffic of the Chicago River. Permission of International Harvester Company."
Chicago's reconstruction plan cover
Image | 1919Text on cover: "Chicago America's Greatest and Most Attractive City Burned 1871 -- Rebuilt as by Magic--Now Her Reconstruction Plan".
Chicago theatres
Image | 1930From text: "Chicago is one of the best theatre cities in the land, in number of playhouses, in the variety of entertainments presented, and in point of discriminating patronage. Many high-grade productions originate in Chicago, and practically all current plays of established merit may be seen there during the season. Most of Chicago's theatres are open all year."
Chicago The Vacation City book cover
Image | 1930Text on cover: "Chicago The Vacation City Illinois Center The Road of Travel Luxury". From text: "Grant Park, between East 11th Place, Michigan Boulevard, Randolph Street, and Lake Michigan, is Chicago's down-town playground, 303 acres in extent. … In Grant Park are ... Buckingham Fountain ... [and] ... Ivan Mestrovic's bronze American Indians ..."
Chicago Tribune building
Image | 1869From text: "The new Tribune building [i]s, in every respect, a model of beauty, convenience and comfort, and an ornament to the city. It is located on the corner of Madison and Dearborn streets. It fronts 72 feet on Dearborn, by 121 feet on Madison street, and covers an area of 8,712 square feet. The building is constructed entirely of fire proof materials. It is four storie...
Chicago Tribune Building
Image | 1875
Chicago Tribune Building
Image | 1893Caption: "[Engraved for The Standard Guide Company.] Chicago Tribune Building, Madison and Dearborn Sts. [See "Newspapers."]"

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