Items | Digital Collections at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library

Central YMCA Building
Image | 1906 | Picture ChicagoLocated at 19 S. LaSalle Street. Designed by Jenney & Mundie and built in 1893.
Post Office pneumatic tube system
Image | 1906 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "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 ChicagoCaption: "Distributing the mail en route."
Underground freight system
Image | 1906 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "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 ChicagoCopy reads: "Marshall Field & Co. Warehouses, Polk St. and the River, Chicago"
Dearborn Street
Image | 1906 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Dearborn Street, the "Sixth Avenue" of Chicago, is one of the city's leading retail business thoroughfares. Here are banks, hotels and cafes in confusing array. It is also noted as a street of outfitters, haberdashers and stores of that type. Finer or handsomer business structures are not to be found on this continent. At one end is Polk Street Depot
Water Tower
Image | 1906 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "The Water Tower[.] The North Water Works are situated on Chicago Avenue near the lake shore. Here a stone tower, one hundred and sixty feet high, receives water from the lake forced by four engines having a pumping capacity of ninety-nine million gallons daily. The water is conveyed to the tower through a brick tunnel five feet in diameter which extends two mile...
Field Museum
Image | 1906 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "The Art Building of the famous World's Fair of 1893, is the only one of the white structures preserved in Jackson Park. It had its beginnings as a permanent institution from the contributions of rare articles by exhibitors at the Exposition. It was first intended to be called "The Columbian Museum," but on an endowment of one million dollars from Marshall Field, ...
Jackson Boulevard
Image | 1906 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Another of Chicago's famous streets. It is paved with asphalt and lined with substantial buildings. The striking facade of the Chicago Board of Trade and the new Post Office Building adorn this thoroughfare. Some portions of Jackson Boulevard resemble the great canyons of lower Manhattan."
Post Office
Image | 1906 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "The Post Office The new Post Office Building, one of the most magnificent postal structures in the United States, is located in a square formed by Adams, Clark and Dearborn streets and Jackson Boulevard. The delay in its completion caused many spirited controversies. From this great central station radiate forty-seven carrier stations, four stations without carr...
Public Library
Image | 1906 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Chicago's Public Library building bears the reputation of being one of the finest library structures in the world. The interior is exquisitely finished in marble, mother-of-pearl and onyx. It is situated on Michigan Avenue between Randolph and Washington streets, and commands a view of Lake Michigan. Upon its shelves are more than three hundred thousand volumes....
Art Institute
Image | 1906 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "This structure stands on the lake front facing Michigan Avenue, near the foot of Adams Street and was erected in 1893 at a cost of $785,000. It contains a rare collection of paintings, statuary and other objects of art. Many wealthy Chicagoans take especial pride in this institution and have enriched it by their liberal gifts. It is open to the public on Wednesd...
Masonic Temple
Image | 1906 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "The Masonic Temple, situated at the corner of Randolph and State streets, is two hundred and sixty-five feet high. The number of its tenants would be sufficient to populate a fair sized village. Although not owned by the Masonic Order, several lodges meet here, paying an annual rental for the privilege. It contains fourteen passenger and two freight elevators." ...
Dead Horse
Image | 1906 | College of Fine and Applied Arts: Teaching CollectionCulture: Mexican
Good Old U. S. A.
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1906 | James Edward Myers World War I Sheet Music Collection
Birmingham Public Library, Ensley Branch, Birmingham, Alabama - Back of Postcard
Image | 1906 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsStamped on the back of postcard: Simmons College, Library School Handwritten: Birmingham, Ala., P.L. Ensley Branch Building completed 1906. Gray pressed brick, stone trimmings. Cost $10,000, front 56.5 ft, depth 48.5 ft.
A Group of Librarians in Narragansett Pier, Rhode Island
Image | 1906 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsNegative in 12,697
A Group of Librarians in Narragansett Pier, Rhode Island
Image | 1906 | American Library Association Archives Digital CollectionsPicture #50: From Left: T. Franklin Currier / Walter Biscoe / A. H. Hopkins /Alice B. Kroeger / J. C. M. Hanson / E. C. Richardson
Annual Meeting of the National Guard and Naval Reserve Association of Illinois
Multi-Page Item | 28 pages | 1906 | Illinois and US History Broadsides and Printed Ephemera Collection (Digitized Content)A pamphlet entitled "Record of Proceedings of Annual Meeting of National Guard and Naval Reserve Association of Illinois, held at Moline, Illinois, June 14, 1906. This document was printed by Republican-Times in Ottawa, Illinois.
Gilman, Iroquois Co., Illinois, May 1906
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1906 | Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps1906
Springfield, Ill., block line map of central business district.
Image | 1906 | Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps1906
Le Roy, McLean Co., Illinois, March 1906
Multi-Page Item | 5 pages | 1906 | Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps1906
Waterloo, Monroe County, Illinois, January 1906
Multi-Page Item | 7 pages | 1906 | Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps1906
Waverly, Morgan Co., Ill., July 1906
Multi-Page Item | 4 pages | 1906 | Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps1906
Wyanet, Bureau Co., Ill., July 1906
Image | 1906 | Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps1906
Sumner, Lawrence Co., Illinois, March 1906
Multi-Page Item | 4 pages | 1906 | Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps1906
Teutopolis, Effingham Co., Illinois, April 1906
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1906 | Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps1906
Casey, Clark County, Illinois, April 1906
Multi-Page Item | 4 pages | 1906 | Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps1906
Effingham, Effingham Co., Illinois, May 1906
Multi-Page Item | 8 pages | 1906 | Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps1906
Forrest, Livingston Co., Illinois, May 1906
Multi-Page Item | 4 pages | 1906 | Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps1906
Colchester, McDonough Co., Illinois, January 1906
Multi-Page Item | 3 pages | 1906 | Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps1906
Fairbury, Livingston Co., Illinois, June 1906
Multi-Page Item | 6 pages | 1906 | Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps1906
Vermont, Fulton Co., Ill., Sept. 1906
Multi-Page Item | 4 pages | 1906 | Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps1906
O'Fallon, St. Clair Co., Illinois, March 1906
Multi-Page Item | 5 pages | 1906 | Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps1906
Nashville, Washington Co., Illinois, March 1906
Multi-Page Item | 7 pages | 1906 | Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps1906
Minonk, Woodford Co., Ill., June 1906
Multi-Page Item | 6 pages | 1906 | Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps1906
Ladd, Bureau Co., Ill., June 1906
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | 1906 | Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps1906
Marshall, Clark Co., Illinois, May 1906
Multi-Page Item | 5 pages | 1906 | Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps1906
Ludwig, King of Bavaria
Image | 1906 | John Starr Stewart Ex Libris CollectionEscutcheon, helmed , crested with wings displayed within architectural border. Additional escutcheons with ecclesiastical figures, on top of columns. Artist's monogram lower right.
Catalogs Map, 1905-1906
Image | 1905 | Mapping History at the University of Illinois Collection

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