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Looking south on Prairie Avenue
Chicago, the marvelous city of the West : a history, an encyclopedia, and a guide: 1893: illustrated

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Title
Looking south on Prairie Avenue
Creator
Vandercook Co.  
Description
  • Caption: "[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 merchant
  • at 1828 that of Daniel B. Shipman, and at 1834 that of Fernando Jones."
Date
1893  
Type
Photographs  
File Name
chicagomarvelous00flin_raw_0593.jp2
Source Page
http://www.archive.org/stream/chicagomarvelous00flin#page/464/mode/2up
Link to the Full-Text
http://hdl.handle.net/10111/UIUCOCA:chicagomarvelous00flin
Repository
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Subject
Residential streets  
Coverage-Spatial
Near South Side (Chicago, Ill.)  
Coverage-Temporal
1890-1899  
Publisher
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  
  • University of Illinois at Chicago  
Rights
Images in this collection were digitized through the University of Illinois Library's participation in the Open Content Alliance and may be used freely. Attribution to the University of Illinois is appreciated. High-resolution images can be downloaded from the Internet Archive at www.archive.org. For further information, contact dcc@library.uiuc.edu.
Book Title
Chicago, the marvelous city of the West : a history, an encyclopedia, and a guide: 1893: illustrated  
Author of the Book
Flinn, John J. (John Joseph), 1851-1929.  
Collection Title
Picture Chicago
Collection
Picture Chicago
TitleLooking south on Prairie Avenue
CreatorVandercook Co.  
Description
  • Caption: "[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 merchant
  • at 1828 that of Daniel B. Shipman, and at 1834 that of Fernando Jones."
Date1893  
TypePhotographs  
File Namechicagomarvelous00flin_raw_0593.jp2
Source Pagehttp://www.archive.org/stream/chicagomarvelous00flin#page/464/mode/2up
Link to the Full-Texthttp://hdl.handle.net/10111/UIUCOCA:chicagomarvelous00flin
RepositoryUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
SubjectResidential streets  
Coverage-SpatialNear South Side (Chicago, Ill.)  
Coverage-Temporal1890-1899  
Publisher
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  
  • University of Illinois at Chicago  
RightsImages in this collection were digitized through the University of Illinois Library's participation in the Open Content Alliance and may be used freely. Attribution to the University of Illinois is appreciated. High-resolution images can be downloaded from the Internet Archive at www.archive.org. For further information, contact dcc@library.uiuc.edu.
Book TitleChicago, the marvelous city of the West : a history, an encyclopedia, and a guide: 1893: illustrated  
Author of the BookFlinn, John J. (John Joseph), 1851-1929.  
Collection TitlePicture Chicago
CollectionPicture Chicago

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