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School of Education, University of Chicago
Garrick Theater
Post office overhead carrier system
Smaller freight tunnel
Northwestern University, downtown Chicago
Central YMCA Building
Post Office pneumatic tube system
Railway mail car
Underground freight system
Marshall Field & Co. advertisement
Retail display
Orchestra Hall
Studebaker Theater
Northwestern University buildings, Evanston
University of Chicago buildings
Underground tunnel railway
Mail at Union Station
Railway post office
Northwestern University Medical College
Elgin Shirt advertisement
Wells' Mastiff Shoes advertisement
School of Education, University of Chicago
Image | 1906 |
Picture Chicago
The School of Education building, at 1362 E. 59th Street, is now called Emmons Blaine Hall, and houses the Lower School of the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools.
Garrick Theater
Image | 1906 |
Picture Chicago
The Garrick Theater, built in 1892, was designed by Adler & Sullivan, and was located at 64 W. Randolph Street.
Post office overhead carrier system
Image | 1906 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "Overhead carrier system in the post-office, similar to cash carriers used in stores."
Smaller freight tunnel
Image | 1906 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "A typical view in the smaller sized portion of the tunne.l"
Northwestern University, downtown Chicago
Image | 1906 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "Northwestern University Building, Clark and Lake Streets, Chicago"
Central YMCA Building
Image | 1906 |
Picture Chicago
Located at 19 S. LaSalle Street. Designed by Jenney & Mundie and built in 1893.
Post Office pneumatic tube system
Image | 1906 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "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 ...
Railway mail car
Image | 1906 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "Distributing the mail en route."
Underground freight system
Image | 1906 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "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 sub...
Marshall Field & Co. advertisement
Image | 1906 |
Picture Chicago
Copy reads: "Marshall Field & Co. Warehouses, Polk St. and the River, Chicago"
Retail display
Image | 1906 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "Where space is valuable--a stairway display in a Chicago retail store"
Orchestra Hall
Image | 1906 |
Picture Chicago
Located at 220 S. Michigan Avenue. Designed by D. H. Burnham & Co. and built in 1905.
Studebaker Theater
Image | 1906 |
Picture Chicago
The Studebaker Theater was located in what is now known as the Fine Arts Building, at 410 S. Michigan Avenue. The architect was S. S. Beman.
Northwestern University buildings, Evanston
Image | 1906 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "Northwestern University buildings at Evanston". Buildings labeled in montage are: "Fayerweather Hall of Science", "Dearborn Observatory", "University Hall", "Willard Hall", and "Orrington Lunt Library".
University of Chicago buildings
Image | 1906 |
Picture Chicago
Labels 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.
Underground tunnel railway
Image | 1903 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "The first mail arriving at the Post Office station of the Chicago subway or underground railroad, March 10, 1903."
Mail at Union Station
Image | 1906 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "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 t...
Railway post office
Image | 1906 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "The "R. P. O."--The Railway Post Office"
Northwestern University Medical College
Image | 1906 |
Picture Chicago
From 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."
Elgin Shirt advertisement
Image | 1906 |
Picture Chicago
Copy reads: "Negligé Coats Are the Thing Fall Line Now Ready Cutter and Crossette Makers Chicago The Elgin Shirt"
Wells' Mastiff Shoes advertisement
Image | 1906 |
Picture Chicago
Copy 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"
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