tag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:/itemsItems2023-11-30T16:48:08Ztag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/394142016-08-11T15:00:14Z2023-11-30T16:48:07ZSuburb of EgglestonCaption: "[Engraved for The Standard Guide Company.] Suburb of Eggleston--Yale Ave., North from 72d St. [See "Outlying Chicago."]". From text: "One of the most prominent suburbs in close proximity to ChicagoUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/394152016-08-11T15:00:14Z2023-11-30T16:48:07ZRelic HouseCaption: "[Engraved for The Standard Guide Company.] The Relic House--Near Lincoln Park. [See "Relic House."]". From text: "The most interesting and ornamental monument of the fire is the "Relic House," well known to North-Siders and Lincoln Park visitors. In 1872, when the "leavings" of the fire could be had for the asking or the trouble of picking them up, a man named Rettig conceived the idea of building a small cottage out of such material as a melted mixture of stone, iron and other metals. The queer structure was built at North Park avenue and Central street. Ten years ago it was removed to its present site near the junction of Clark street and North Park avenue (take North Clark street cable line), Philip Vinter becoming the proprietor. Four years afterwards the "Relic House" passed into the hands of its present owner, William Lindemann, who has added a refreshment parlor to the saloon and made quite a rustic spot out of the relic."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/394182016-08-11T15:00:14Z2023-11-30T16:48:07ZUnion Stock YardsCaption: "[Engraved for The Standard Guide Company.] Union Stock Yards, Looking toward the Exchange. [See ""Great Industries."]". From text: "Located on South Halsted st.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/394202016-08-11T15:00:15Z2023-11-30T16:48:07ZChicago Opera HouseCaption: "[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 upon a basis never before seen in this country of spectacular extravaganza. For five years Mr. Henderson has each season given to Chicago a production of musical burlesque, on a scale beside which everything else in that line ever attempted in America shrinks to pigmy proportions."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/394072016-08-11T15:00:14Z2023-11-30T16:48:06ZGeorge B. Carpenter & Co.Caption: "[Engraved for The Standard Guide Company.] Geo. B. Carpenter & Co.--Fifth Ave. and South Water St. [See "Guide."]"University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/394122016-08-11T15:00:14Z2023-11-30T16:48:06ZHooley's TheatreCaption: "[Engraved for The Standard Guide Company.] Proscenium Boxes and Auditorium, Hooley's Theatre. [See ""Amusements."]". From text: "It is generally known as 'Hooley's Parlor Home of Comedy,' and the title conveys a proper idea of the popular family resort. The seating capacity of the theatre is 1,506University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/394132016-08-11T15:00:14Z2023-11-30T16:48:07ZKeeley InstituteCaption: "[Engraved for The Standard Guide Company.] The Keeley Institute--Laboratory and Office Building. [See "Keeley Institute."]. From text: "Probably no discovery in medicine has been productive of so much intelligent discussion or so much widespread interest during recent years as that made by Leslie E. Keeley, M.D., and it is certain that the workings of no medical institution in the world have been observed with closer attention among all classes of people during the past three years, than that which is known as The Keeley Institute, of Dwight, Ill. This stands alone, among the institutions of Illinois. It is something so original, so novel, so unique, that the compiler has found it impossible to place it under any established classification. It must be treated in relief. It is not a hospital. It is not an asylum. It is not a sanitarium. It is not a reformatory. It is all of these in one, and yet it differs from them in so many essential points .... The buildings which compose the Keeley Institute at Dwight consist of a beautiful structure, known as the "Laboratory," in which the general accounting rooms and offices of the physicians are located ... "University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/394392016-08-11T15:00:16Z2023-11-30T16:48:10ZStrauss, Yondorf & Rose buildingFrom text: "Strauss, Yondorf & Rose, Wholesale Clothiers. … They occupy a handsome structure on the corner of Market and Quincy streets, ten stories and basement, being the first actual fire-proof building in the city erected and used for commercial purposes. ... [t]he ninth and tenth stories are used for sample rooms, thus securing on these floors at all times of day an unobstructed natural light. Buyers of textile fabrics of delicate shades of color will know how to appreciate this in preference to the most approved artificial lights. This tenth story sample room is a feature of the establishment, having a vaulted ceiling sixteen feet high, and beautifully decorated and fitted up."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/396922016-08-11T15:00:36Z2023-11-30T16:48:41ZLog house at KenilworthCaption: "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.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/396502016-08-11T15:00:32Z2023-11-30T16:48:36ZCharles A. ComiskeyCaption: "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.'"University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/394172016-08-11T15:00:14Z2023-11-30T16:48:07ZLibby Prison MuseumCaption: "[Engraved for The Standard Guide Company.] Libby Prison Museum, Wabash Ave., South. [See "Amusements."]". From text: "Located on Wabash avenue, between Fourteenth and Sixteenth streets. One of the principal permanent attractions of the city. The original Libby prison (transported from Richmond, Va., and put up, brick after brick, just as it stood during the War of the Rebellion, when used as a prison for Union soldiers) is enclosed within massive walls, built after the manner of the middle ages."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/394312016-08-11T15:00:15Z2023-11-30T16:48:09ZMasonic TempleCaption: "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 description."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/394382016-08-11T15:00:16Z2023-11-30T16:48:10ZRailroad crossing bellsCaption: "Hall Signal Co." From text: "The Hall Signal Co. of 50 Broadway, New York, and 340 The Rookery, Chicago, are manufacturers of all kinds of Electric and Mechanical Signaling apparatus for railroads. The Hall Automatic Electric Block Signal System is in operation on twenty-one of the leading railroads of this country. On the opposite page is shown an application of the Hall highway crossing alarm bell at S. Union street, Chicago."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/394262016-08-11T15:00:15Z2023-11-30T16:48:08ZLooking south on Prairie AvenueCaption: "[Engraved for The Standard Guide Company.] Looking south on Prairie Avenue from Eighteenth St." From text: "[w]e begin with Prairie avenue. Why not? It is the avenue of avenues in Chicago. [O]n no avenue in the city are there to be found the homes of as many people whose names are so closely allied to the enterprise, the progress and the culture of Chicago... It isn't lined with palaces, no. The homes of the millionaires of Chicago are not palaces. There are much handsomer residences than a majority of these to be found on other streets and avenues. Many of the mansions are comparatively old. Some of them have a weather-worn appearance. You see it is this way--the people who occupy these houses have long since passed that stage of human weakness which demands display.... They are solidly wealthy.... We are now in front of an odd-looking, but elegant residence, occupied by Mr. John J. Glessner, and the next is the residence of O. R. Keith. At 1816 we find the home of C. M. Henderson, the wholesale boot and shoe merchantUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/394062016-08-11T15:00:14Z2023-11-30T16:48:06ZChicago Tribune BuildingCaption: "[Engraved for The Standard Guide Company.] Chicago Tribune Building, Madison and Dearborn Sts. [See "Newspapers."]"University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/392192016-08-11T14:59:58Z2023-11-30T16:47:43ZLillian RussellFrontispieceUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/392822016-08-11T15:00:04Z2023-11-30T16:47:50ZEntrance to Forest HomeFrom text: "This cemetery is situated between West Madison and West Twelfth Sts., about four and one half miles west of the present City Limits, and embraces the most beautiful part of the once celebrated Haase's Park, comprising nearly one hundred acres of land. These grounds have gained a wide reputation for the beauty of their natural sceneryUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/392792016-08-11T15:00:04Z2023-11-30T16:47:50ZWacker Monument in Graceland CemeteryCaption: "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 in Cincinnati, Forest Hill or Mount Auburn in Boston. Among the 500 cemeteries in this country there is but a small number that can compare with Graceland in point of beauty of landscape and the splendor of its monuments."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/394192016-08-11T15:00:14Z2023-11-30T16:48:07ZSkandinaven BuildingCaption: "[Engraved for The Standard Guide Company.] The Skandinaven Building, 183-187 N. Peoria St. [See "Newspapers."]". From text: "Location of publication office, the Skandinaven Building, 183, 185 and 187 N. Peoria street, West Side. Take Milwaukee avenue cable line, or Indiana street horse car to Peoria. John Anderson company, publishers. ... Founded in 1866 by John Anderson and Knud LanglandUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/394112016-08-11T15:00:14Z2023-11-30T16:48:06ZInter-Ocean BuildingCaption: "[Engraved for The Standard Guide Company.] The Inter-Ocean Building, Madison and Dearborn Sts. [See "Newspapers."]. From text: "In 1861 the late James W. Shehan founded the Morning Post. In 1865 the Post franchise was purchased by the Republican Company ... After the great fire of 1871 there was little left of the Republican except its franchise, which was purchased by the late J. Young Scammon, then a banker, and one of the leading citizens of ChicagoUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/394082016-08-11T15:00:14Z2023-11-30T16:48:06ZSt. Vincent's HospitalCaption: "[Engraved for The Standard Guide Company.] St. Vincent's Infant Asylum and Maternity Hospital. [See "Hospitals"]". From text: "St. Vincent's Infant Asylum and Maternity Hospital.--Located at 191 LaSalle ave. Take Clark or Wells St. cable lines. Conducted by the Sisters of Charity. This institution is for the care of infants and children under five years of age, who can be reclaimed by parents of friends at any time, unless they abandon them or desire to give them up for adoption. The building is capable of accommodating two hundred children."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/394362016-08-11T15:00:16Z2023-11-30T16:48:09ZPullman BuildingFrom text: "In height it corresponds to the Virginia Hotel, corner Rush and Ohio Streets, and the Pullman and Studebaker Buildings on Michigan Avenue--140 feet."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/393462016-08-11T15:00:09Z2023-11-30T16:47:58ZDaniel Hudson BurnhamCaption: "Daniel Hudson Burnham, director of works of World's Columbian Exposition and author of the Chicago Plan. From portrait by Zorn, by permission of Mrs. Burnham."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/392812016-08-11T15:00:04Z2023-11-30T16:47:50ZGateway to Oak Woods CemeteryCaption: "Gateway to Oakwoods (sic) Cemetery." From text: "This beautiful cemetery stands in the front rank, as one of the handsomest of Chicago's burial grounds. It is located south of 67th St. between Cottage Grove Ave. and the I. C. R. R. track. The distance from the business center is about seven miles. ... In drawing the plan for the grounds, the Association was fortunate in securing the services of the late Mr. Adolph Strauch, Superintendent of Spring Grove Cemetery, at Cincinnati, who as a landscape gardener and Superintendent of cemeteries, probably had no equal. Before work was commenced in 1864, he visited and made a thorough examination of the land ... Then, with a detailed survey, showing the elevation, he drafted the plan now presented to the public, designating the lowest land for artificial lakes, and the higher to be made still higher, and formed into beautiful mounds with the earth taken from the lakes. The avenues are laid out in gentle curves and on an established grade."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/392832016-08-11T15:00:04Z2023-11-30T16:47:50ZEntrance to Waldheim CemeteryFrom text: "Situated in the town of Harlem, on the Desplaines River, and about nine miles from the city, is a German cemetery of exceptional beauty in its general aspect as well as in the tasteful and pleasing manner … Like most of the other large cemeteries, Waldheim is open to all, and makes no distinction between the believer or unbeliever, between Christian, Jew or Heathen. The park-like grounds contain 80 acres of well drained land, about half of which is still covered with a dense wood of healthy oak trees, whose days however are numbered."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/392202016-08-11T14:59:58Z2023-11-30T16:47:43ZGroup of Footlight FavoritesCaption: "Maurice Barrymore. Jessie Bartlett Davis. Georgia Cayvan. Isabella Irving. Richard Mansfield. Hattie Harvey."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/394352016-08-11T15:00:16Z2023-11-30T16:48:09ZAuditorium BuildingFrom text: " Auditorium Tower, the highest building in Chicago. The balcony is 260 feet high, and the observatory tower carries the height up to 275 feet. The flagstaff surmounting this is the highest thing in town--300 feet."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/394372016-08-11T15:00:16Z2023-11-30T16:48:10ZEntrance to Stock YardsCaption: "Entrance to Stock Yards." From text: "No reference to Chicago of a statistical nature, even of the most infinitesimal character, would be complete without passing reference at least to the Union Stock Yards and the part they play in the world's economy. ... The yards were considered quite isolated at the time, but the city has grown so rapidly they have been annexed to it and are now about half way between the limits and the City Hall in a flourishing business district. In the beginning 120 acres were covered with pens but the growth of the business has necessitated an extension of pens to 300 acres and where 2,000 pens accommodated stock at the start, 5,000 are now necessary."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/394422016-08-11T15:00:16Z2023-11-30T16:48:10ZBusiness office in Tacoma BuildingCaption: "[Engraved for The Standard Guide Company.] Business Office, New York Mutual Life Insurance Co., Tacoma Bldg [Charles H. Ferguson, Agent.]". From text: ""Elsewhere is presented in this volume an engraving of the interior of the counting room of Charles H. Ferguson, general agent of the New York Mutual Life Insurance Company for the State of Illinois. The offices are located in the famous Tacoma building, Madison and La Salle sts., and are among the finest in the city. Mr. Ferguson has made life insurance a study during the greater part of his life.""University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/394282016-08-11T15:00:15Z2023-11-30T16:48:09ZMilwaukee Avenue State BankCaption: "[Engraved for The Standard Guide Company.] The Milwaukee Avenue State Bank. [See "Banks, State and Private."]". From text: "Location Milwaukee Avenue and Carpenter street. … Successor to the banking house of Paul O. Stensland & Co., the leading financial institution of the northwest section of the city. The former bank had built up a very large business with the tradespeople of Milwaukee avenue on the great manufacturing concerns contiguous to that important thoroughfare. For this reason it became necessary to increase its capital stock ... This bank does a general business and in addition has a savings department. Teachers, clerks, artisans and wage-workers generally, will find in this a convenient and safe place for their savings."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/394292016-08-11T15:00:15Z2023-11-30T16:48:09ZLooking north on State from Madison St.Caption: "[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 it is the longest in the city, extending as it does from North ave. to the southern limits, a distance of eighteen miles."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/394322016-08-11T15:00:15Z2023-11-30T16:48:09ZOwings BuildingCaption: "Corner of Adams and Dearborn Sts". From text: "Tower of the quaint Owings Building, fourteen stories, corner Adams and Dearborn Streets, unique in design, and a cloud disturber of the first order--225 feet."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/394162016-08-11T15:00:14Z2023-11-30T16:48:07ZSuburb of Auburn ParkCaption: "[Engraved for The Standard Guide Company.] Suburb of Auburn Park--Wright, North from 77th St. [See "Outlying Chicago."]". From text: ""Well understanding that no locality can be uniformly improved unless under the sole control of a single person or a syndicate, Eggleston, Mallette & Brownell also bought Auburn Park. Then they immediately commenced to carry out their avowed plan of making their two purchases as attractive a subdivision as labor and abundant means could produce. That they have accomplished their object, none can gainsay. Briefly stated, this property extends from Seventy-first street to Seventy-ninth, and is bounded on the East by State street, and has Wallace avenue for a Western boundary, being one mile by one half mile in size. It is the first rise of any consequence back from the lake, and is so well elevated as to allow of laying the pipes of its complete sewer system eight and ten feet below the surface of the ground. A large and natural growth of oak trees are everywhere seen besides which, tall and beautiful elms border either side of the walks."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/396512016-08-11T15:00:32Z2023-11-30T16:48:36ZChicago Brotherhood team of 1890Caption: "One of the greatest combinations of stars ever put together--Comiskey's Chicago Brotherhood team of 1890."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/392772016-08-11T15:00:04Z2023-11-30T16:47:48ZMrs. Potter PalmerCentral portrait in five-portrait montage captioned "Prominent officials of the Board of Lady Managers." Other officials depicted are: "Mrs. Susan G. Cooke, Secretary Board of Lady Managers," "Mrs. V. C. Meredith, Vice-Chairman Executive Committee, and Chairman of Committee on Awards," "Mrs. Russell B. Harrison, Vice-President at Large," and "Mrs. John A. Logan, Vice-Chairman Committee on Ceremonies."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/392782016-08-11T15:00:04Z2023-11-30T16:47:49ZResidence of Hermann WeinhardtCaption: "Residence of West Park Commissioner Hermann Weinhardt, near Wicker Park." Weinhardt's seven-year term as West Park Commissioner began March 18, 1891 (from text).University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/394232016-08-11T15:00:15Z2023-11-30T16:48:08ZReceiving the Keeley treatmentCaption: "[Engraved for The Standard Guide Company.] The Keeley Institute--Taking the Hypodermic Treatment. [See "Keeley Institute."]". From text: "An illustration of the method pursued is given in this work. This shows Dr. Keeley in the foreground, noting the condition of patients as they pass from the hands of the operating physicians. The four daily hypodermic injections are given in the left arm, a slit being made in the shirt sleeves of the patients, as a rule, although many prefer to roll the sleeve up to the shoulder. At each operating table there are two physicians, one to use the needle, the other to see that patients are provided with remedies for minor indispositions. The former observes closely the pupils of the eyes of every patient as he approaches, of these (in the position of Dr. Keeley as shown in the engraving) who takes each patient by the wrist after treatment, as he passes out, to note the temperature of the body, condition of the skin, dilation of pupil, etc., and also enquires regarding the general health of the subject. One line is usually reserved for new patients, and the physician who is detailed to attend to the duty last named, in this line, also supplies the liquor required in two-ounce, four-ounce or eight-ounce bottles, as the case may be. No patient is refused whisky. Just so long as he desires it, it is freely given. He usually declines it twenty-four hours after the treatment has begun."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/394242016-08-11T15:00:15Z2023-11-30T16:48:08ZSt. Joseph's HospitalCaption: "[Engraved for The Standard Guide Company.] St. Joseph's Hospital, Garfield Ave. and Burling St. [See "Hospitals."]". From text: "The hospital is fitted with all the latest improvements for ventilation, heating, etc., and has accommodations for three hundred patients in wards and private rooms. Of the latter there are fifty, tastefully decorated, supplied with light and air. The wards are also models of neatness and comfort and so carefully have the interests of the sick been provided for that open fireplaces have been place in each ward. The building is heated by steam. The schedule of prices is so arranged that all classes of patients can be accommodated and avail themselves, at reasonable rates, of the superior advantages of the hospital."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/394252016-08-11T15:00:15Z2023-11-30T16:48:08ZKeeley Institute: Waiting for the trainCaption: "[Engraved for The Standard Guide Company.] The Keeley Institute--Waiting for the Train at Dwight. [See "Keeley Institute."]". From text: "Train time is always looked forward to at Dwight, sometimes with pleasure and sometimes with sorrow. Pleasant ties are broken every day. The departing graduate, while looking forward with pleasure to meeting his friends once more, leaves his associates with regret. He is generally given a hearty farewell. New arrivals are immediately taken in hands by attendants of the Institute, who are always in waiting at the station. [See illustration.] No matter what the condition of the arrival may be no remarks are made about the man as he passes through the crowd. Under no circumstances is good taste offended."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/394272016-08-11T15:00:15Z2023-11-30T16:48:08ZScandia HallCaption: "[Engraved for The Standard Guide Company.] Scandia Hall, W. Ohio St., near Milwaukee Ave. [See "Scandia Hall."]".University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library