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Barney (Christian P.) Bertsche
Masonic Temple
Railroad crossing bells
Looking south on Prairie Avenue
Courtyard of Hull House
William D. Boyce
Fisk Hall
Rest Cottage
Dome and Grand Stairway
Lake View town hall
Chicago Tribune Building
Entrance to Rosehill Cemetery
Michigan Boulevard before widening
Illinois Club
Oaks Club
Park Club
Section, engraving room
Lillian Russell
Henry Horner
Auto pumping engine
Corner, watch repair room
Entrance to Forest Home
Wacker Monument in Graceland Cemetery
Calumet Club
Chicago Club
Chicago, before the fire
Rufus C. Dawes
German Building at Jackson Park
Illinois Central Station
Residence of Seymour J. Thurber
Trade Board meeting
West Side Auditorium meeting
Dickens and Halsted apartment building
Porch figures on Dewes House
Edwin Burritt Smith
Walter L. Fisher
Chicago Commons Woman's Club
Colonial loom
Grant Park adjoining Central Station
Executive Offices, Chicago Joint Board
Barney (Christian P.) Bertsche
Image | 1916 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "Barney' (Christian P.) Bertsche, who guaranteed immunity from arrest to clairvoyants, wiretappers, pickpockets, gunmen and other criminals, at so much per month. As their representative he paid thousands of dollars to the graft syndicate in the detective bureau."
Masonic Temple
Image | 1891 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "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 ...
Railroad crossing bells
Image | 1891 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "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 t...
Looking south on Prairie Avenue
Image | 1893 |
Picture Chicago
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 is...
Courtyard of Hull House
Image | 1920 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "The Courtyard of Hull House."
William D. Boyce
Image | 1912 |
Picture Chicago
From text: "A great nation is always the net result of the efforts of great individuals
Fisk Hall
Image | 1912 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "Fisk Hall, The Academy of Northwestern University: At the right is the United States Life Saving Station. Courtesy of Northwestern University".
Rest Cottage
Image | 1912 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "Rest Cottage, Evanston: W.C.T.U. Headquarters, former home of Miss Willard." From text: "Her home in Evanston is known as 'Rest Cottage,' where she spent many years of her life, though in the interest of her work she traveled extensively."
Dome and Grand Stairway
Image | 1912 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "Dome and grand stairway of Art Institute, completed in 1912. Courtesy of Art Institute of Chicago". From text: "There are now in 1911, fifty public exhibition galleries, of which twenty-seven are skylighted, and plans are being made to extend the building eastward by bridging the Illinois Central railroad tracks with skylighted galleries and building new museum hal...
Lake View town hall
Image | 1912 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "Town Hall of the former city of Lake View: Built in 1872 at a cost of seventeen thousand dollars, corner Addison and Halsted streets. Photograph taken by A. W. Watriss". From text: "The name of the Township of Ridgeville was changed to Evanston on February 17th, 1857, accompanied by a change of boundaries. Lakeview Township, formerly a part of Ridgeville Township, ...
Chicago Tribune Building
Image | 1893 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "[Engraved for The Standard Guide Company.] Chicago Tribune Building, Madison and Dearborn Sts. [See "Newspapers."]"
Entrance to Rosehill Cemetery
Image | 1883 |
Picture Chicago
From text: "The projectors of Rose Hill have wisely selected grounds far enough from the city proper to insure no molestation of the ashes of the dead in the future, and have chosen grounds high enough for the purposes intended, and also those susceptible of improvement at a slight expense. They are of easy access both by rail and drives, which is certainly a desirable featu...
Michigan Boulevard before widening
Image | 1919 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "Michigan Boulevard at Randolph Street before Widening."
Illinois Club
Image | 1888 |
Picture Chicago
From text: "In 1881, the property which is the present quarters of the Club (154 Ashland Avenue) was purchased."
Oaks Club
Image | 1888 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "Austin Library Building and Club House." From text: "The Oaks was organized in January, 1882, and incorporated September 3d, 1884, its object being to promote social intercourse between its members and their families. In its early days the club occupied rooms in the Giles Block until the building was destroyed by fire November 13th, 1885, at which time it suffered ...
Park Club
Image | 1888 |
Picture Chicago
From text: "The Park Club had its beginning at a social gathering of the leading gentlemen of South Park early in the spring of 1886. … The selection of its name was the natural sequence of its unrivalled location in the midst of the grand system of parks and boulevards, over whose thousands of acres of lawn and lake its windows look. While the majority of the members of the...
Section, engraving room
Image | 1922 |
Picture Chicago
August 1922.
Lillian Russell
Image | 1892 |
Picture Chicago
Frontispiece
Henry Horner
Image | 1933 |
Picture Chicago
From text: "Illinois' Governor, Henry Horner[.] Following more than eighteen years as judge of Probate Court, Henry Horner was elevated to the position of the Governor of the State of Illinois on January 9, 1933, at the state capitol of Springfield. The Governor was born in Chicago seven years after the Great Fire ... "
Auto pumping engine
Image | 1919 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "Averages 750 gallons per minute. This style of fire equipment replaces horsedrawn apparatus. It is so designed that the hose wagon and pump are combined in the same apparatus, which eliminates one piece of apparatus in the company where it is installed. It is of the latest design and the records show that the men are able to connect to hydrant, stretch 300 feet of ...
Corner, watch repair room
Image | 1922 |
Picture Chicago
August 1922.
Entrance to Forest Home
Image | 1893 |
Picture Chicago
From 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 scenery
Wacker Monument in Graceland Cemetery
Image | 1893 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "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 ...
Calumet Club
Image | 1888 |
Picture Chicago
Building was located at Michigan Avenue and Twentieth Street.
Chicago Club
Image | 1888 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "Chicago Club, Monroe St." From text: "After the fire the present building was erected on Monroe Street, just opposite the Palmer House."
Chicago, before the fire
Image | 1933 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "Chicago, as It Was Before the Fire"
Rufus C. Dawes
Image | 1933 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "Rufus C. Dawes President A Century of Progress"
German Building at Jackson Park
Image | 1912 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "ackson Park--The German Building (Refectory) and the Beach." The German Building was erected for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition and was one of the few structures to remain behind and became a permanent feature in Jackson Park after the fair concluded.
Illinois Central Station
Image | 1912 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "Grant Park, the Lake, Michigan Boulevard and Central Station of the Illinois Central R. R."
Residence of Seymour J. Thurber
Image | 1910 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "Residence of Mr. Seymour J. Thurber. 1444 Estes Ave., Rogers Park."
Trade Board meeting
Image | 1922 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "Trade Board of the Wholesale Clothiers, Wholesale Tailors, Cut Trim and Make Association, etc., B. M. Squires, Impartial Chairman". On photograph: "371 I. P. E. U."
West Side Auditorium meeting
Image | 1921 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "Meeting of all of Joint Board Delegates, Local Executives and Shop Chairmen. West Side Auditorium, Jan. 13, 1921. Presented to Captains and Lieutenants of the $1,000,000 Lockout Fund Chicago Joint Board Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America." On photograph: "371 I. P. E. U."
Dickens and Halsted apartment building
Image | 1963 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "Architectural details add interest to many houses in the Sheffield area. On the opposite page is a three-story bay on an apartment building at the corner of Dickens and Halsted."
Porch figures on Dewes House
Image | 1963 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "Stone figures support the porch of a home built in 1896 for Chicago brewer Francis J. Dewes. Located on Wrightwood and Hampden Court, it now houses the Swedish Engineers Society."
Edwin Burritt Smith
Image | 1907 |
Picture Chicago
From 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."
Walter L. Fisher
Image | 1907 |
Picture Chicago
From 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."
Chicago Commons Woman's Club
Image | 1901 |
Picture Chicago
December 1901.
Colonial loom
Image | 1902 |
Picture Chicago
May 1902.
Grant Park adjoining Central Station
Image | 1930 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "Grant Park, Adjoining Central Station, Showing the Buckingham Fountain and Other New Improvements Under Way." From text: "Buckingham Fountain, in Grant Park at the foot of Congress Street, is the largest and one of the most beautiful fountains in the world. It has several varieties of displays and is illuminated at night. Closed during the winter months."
Executive Offices, Chicago Joint Board
Image | 1922 |
Picture Chicago
Caption: "Executive Offices, Chicago Joint Board--Samuel Levin, Manager
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