tag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:/itemsItems2023-11-30T16:47:57Ztag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/393372016-08-11T15:00:08Z2023-11-30T16:47:57ZBank vaults on main floorFrom text: "At the rear of the banking floor are ten immense vaults in which the money, valuables, and books of the bank are placed at the close of each day's business. If ever anything built by human hands was made impregnable to assault from without, this business vault of the Chicago National Bank certainly was. It stands three stories in height and is clear of the walls on every side, in order that watchmen may completely encircle it in their rounds at night. Attack from the outside by way of the floor or ceiling is equally out of the question, the surrounding brick walls being four feet thick in the basement, three feet thick on the banking floor, and two feet thick above that... If ever criminals should conceive a scheme for attempting to reach the interior of these vaults, they would find their keenest ingenuity baffled."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/393382016-08-11T15:00:08Z2023-11-30T16:47:57ZEquitable Trust Company's officesCaption: "Entrance to Equitable Trust Company's Offices." From text: "Bronze elevators, operated by electricity and moving in a shaft inclosed in beautifully designed bronze scrollwork, noiselessly carry the visitor to the upper floors in the front portion of the building. Here are the offices of the Equitable Trust Company, a corporation which acts as executor of estates and performs all the other functions of a trust company designated by law. These rooms are furnished and finished in style and materials in keeping with the other parts of the splendid building."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/392922016-08-11T15:00:05Z2023-11-30T16:47:51ZUnderground tunnel railwayCaption: "The first mail arriving at the Post Office station of the Chicago subway or underground railroad, March 10, 1903."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/392942016-08-11T15:00:05Z2023-11-30T16:47:51ZMail at Union StationCaption: "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 focal point of the continental fast mail lines. It is the point where the great links of the transcontinental mail chains are joined together."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/392952016-08-11T15:00:05Z2023-11-30T16:47:52ZRailway post officeCaption: "The "R. P. O."--The Railway Post Office"University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/392982016-08-11T15:00:05Z2023-11-30T16:47:52ZNorthwestern University Medical CollegeFrom text: "The Medical School, in Chicago, founded in 1859, was the first American medical school to give a graded course, to lengthen the teaching year, and to demand educational requirements for entrance. It provides a full four years' course, exceptional clinical advantages, and actual instruction at the bedside."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/393472016-08-11T15:00:09Z2023-11-30T16:47:58ZLuncheon by Daniel BurnhamCaption: "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 G. Shedd, Charles H. Thorne, Theodore W. Robinson, Emerson B. Tuttle, John W. Scott, John V. Farwell, Charles H. Wacker. Frederick A. Delano and Walter H. Wilson (not shown) also present at this historical meeting. Permission of Charles H. Wacker."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/393052016-08-11T15:00:06Z2023-11-30T16:47:53ZElgin Shirt advertisementCopy reads: "Negligé Coats Are the Thing Fall Line Now Ready Cutter and Crossette Makers Chicago The Elgin Shirt"University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/393062016-08-11T15:00:06Z2023-11-30T16:47:53ZWells' Mastiff Shoes advertisementCopy 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"University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/396362016-08-11T15:00:31Z2023-11-30T16:48:34ZMedical examinationSeptember 1902.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/396382016-08-11T15:00:31Z2023-11-30T16:48:34ZLocal Union No. 183 in paradeJanuary 1903.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/396402016-08-11T15:00:31Z2023-11-30T16:48:34ZPark swimming poolJune 1904.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/395482016-08-11T15:00:24Z2023-11-30T16:48:23ZEdwin Burritt SmithFrom text: "The City was fortunate in its choice of attorneys to represent it in the litigation. Edgar B. Tolman, Corporation Counsel, was a lawyer of marked ability. Associated with him as special traction counsel were Edwin Burritt Smith and John C. Mathis."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/395502016-08-11T15:00:25Z2023-11-30T16:48:24ZWalter L. FisherFrom 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."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/396282016-08-11T15:00:30Z2023-11-30T16:48:33ZChicago Commons Woman's ClubDecember 1901.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/396332016-08-11T15:00:31Z2023-11-30T16:48:34ZColonial loomMay 1902.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/391762016-08-11T14:59:55Z2023-11-30T16:47:37ZCorner of State and WashingtonCaption: "Corner of State and Washington Streets, showing the Marshall Field establishment[.] Marshall Field's retail dry goods store, the largest in the world, is located at the corner of State and Washington streets. The great Field store extends along State Street to the next block. On the corner fronting the pedestrian from almost any angle, hangs a huge clock which an enterprising person has figured is sought for the time 107,516 times a day." View is looking northeast.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/391782016-08-11T14:59:56Z2023-11-30T16:47:37ZSiegel, Cooper & CompanyCaption: "This is another of the mammoth department stores of ChicagoUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/391652016-08-11T14:59:55Z2023-11-30T16:47:36ZArmour elevatorCaption: "The Armour grain elevator is the largest in the city, and belongs to the millionaire meat packer. The owner is noted for his great wheat operations on the Board of Trade. The vast quantities of the actual product in this immense elevator have often been able to turn the market in his favor. The elevator is located on Goose Island in the Chicago River. The combined capacity of the Chicago elevator warehouses is thirty-one million bushels."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/392042016-08-11T14:59:57Z2023-11-30T16:47:41ZStock yards and towerCaption: "All visitors to Chicago are sure to include a trip to the celebrated stock yards during their sojourn in the city. Thousands of head of cattle are slaughtered here daily. The cattle are housed in hundreds of pens covering three hundred and twenty acres. The problem of supplying this immense area with water was solved by the building of a great tower, from which it is distributed among the pens."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/395042016-08-11T15:00:21Z2023-11-30T16:48:18ZIn front of the theaterDecember 1903.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/395072016-08-11T15:00:21Z2023-11-30T16:48:18ZMiss Nellie ReedCaption: "Miss Nellie Reed, Leader of the Flying Ballet, killed by the fire." From text: "Miss Nellie Reed, the principal of the flying ballet, which was in place for its appearance near the top part of the stage, was so badly burned by the flames before she was able to escape that she afterward died at the county hospital. The other members of the flying ballet were not injured."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/395082016-08-11T15:00:21Z2023-11-30T16:48:19ZLine of fire victimsCaption: "A line of victims of the fire awaiting identification."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/394622016-08-11T15:00:18Z2023-11-30T16:48:13ZAssembling departmentUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/394762016-08-11T15:00:19Z2023-11-30T16:48:15ZFurnace rooms and annealing buildingCaption: "General Views looking North Showing Furnace Rooms--looking East Showing Annealing Building and New Foundries". Photograph is included in section on company's Grand Rapids facility.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/394682016-08-11T15:00:18Z2023-11-30T16:48:14ZGeneral views, looking S.W. and westViews of Chicago Railway Equipment Co. plant in Marion, Indiana.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/395062016-08-11T15:00:21Z2023-11-30T16:48:18ZAmbulance loaded with fire victimsFrom text: "While the streets began to crowd for blocks around with weeping and heartbroken persons in mortal terror because of knowledge that loved ones had attended the performance, patrol wagons, ambulances and open wagons hurried the injured to hospitals. Before long they were called upon to perform the more grewsome [sic] task of removing the dead. In wagon loads the latter were carted away. Undertaking establishments both north, south and west of the river threw open their doors."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/395122016-08-11T15:00:22Z2023-11-30T16:48:19ZWaiting to get into morgueCaption: "Waiting their turn to get into the morgue."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/395022016-08-11T15:00:21Z2023-11-30T16:48:18ZCarter H. HarrisonCaption: "Hon. Carter H. Harrison, Mayor of Chicago."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/394592016-08-11T15:00:17Z2023-11-30T16:48:13ZTool departmentTool department for Chicago Railway Equipment Company.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/394612016-08-11T15:00:18Z2023-11-30T16:48:13ZShop No. 1Caption: "Section of Shop No. 1".University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/394672016-08-11T15:00:18Z2023-11-30T16:48:13ZForge departmentPhotograph is included in section on company's Detroit facility.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/394692016-08-11T15:00:18Z2023-11-30T16:48:14ZBolt and rivet departmentPhotograph is included in section on company's Detroit facility.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/394752016-08-11T15:00:19Z2023-11-30T16:48:14ZOffice and old power plantCaption: "Office and Old Power Plant View from South Corner". Photograph is included in section on company's Grand Rapids facility.University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/392322016-08-11T14:59:59Z2023-11-30T16:47:44ZNew City Hall and County BuildingFrom text: "On the opposite page is a fine representation in half-tone of the new County Building and City Hall, as the conjoined, magnificent structure will appear when the city half of it shall have been completed. The county half has been officially occupied since July 5, 1907, and it is certain that the officers and employes (sic) of no county in the United States are more splendidly provided for."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/392342016-08-11T14:59:59Z2023-11-30T16:47:44ZFred A. BusseMayor of Chicago (1907-1911)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/392902016-08-11T15:00:05Z2023-11-30T16:47:51ZPost Office pneumatic tube systemCaption: "End of the big pneumatic tube system in the basement of the Chicago Post Office." From text: "The underground pneumatic tube system is the largest of the kind in the world. There are three double-tube trunk lines, aggregating over eighteen miles of eight-inch cast iron pipe. Of these lines the stockyards branch is the longest, the station being six and one-half miles away from the post-office, requiring thirteen miles of pipe. Relay stations on this line are at Twelfth and Twenty-second streets ... "University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/392932016-08-11T15:00:05Z2023-11-30T16:47:51ZRailway mail carCaption: "Distributing the mail en route."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/392962016-08-11T15:00:05Z2023-11-30T16:47:52ZUnderground freight systemCaption: "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 is electric lighted, perfectly dry, clean and well-ventilated."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Librarytag:digital.library.illinois.edu,2005:Item/393402016-08-11T15:00:08Z2023-11-30T16:47:57ZEntrance to vaultFrom text: "The portal of this treasure house is guarded by a double set of eight-ton doors similar to those in position in the business vaults of the bank on the floor above. A sentinel stands always at either door, although during business hours the eight-ton door is of course swung open and a heavy bronze and steel-grated door bars the entrance on the inner side of the vestibule. These vaults and doors were designed by E. A. Strauss, engineer for Jenney & Mundie, the architects."University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library