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Michigan Avenue looking north

General perspective looking north

Branch reading room

Furnace rooms and annealing building

LaSalle Street

General views, looking S.W. and west

Residence of E. S. Shepherd

Reference room

Reading room for young people

Skandinaven Building

Inter-Ocean Building

Shop No. 2

Residence of Wm. H. Fahrney

St. Vincent's Hospital

Residence of Albert G. Wheeler

Pullman Building

Bolster department

Chicago general offices

View northeast from Court House dome

State Street, Near Washington

Clark and South Water Streets

Tremont House

Mary Galloway Clybourne

Crosby's Opera House

John A. Logan

Rev. Robert Collyer

Rev. O. H. Tiffany

Wigwam, site of 1860 Republican Convention

William B. Ogden

Lincoln funeral procession in Chicago

Safe deposit vaults

Semi-Centennial Celebration Chicago Fire

Victory parade on State Street

Chicago River before 1871

Daniel Hudson Burnham

Orrington Lunt

New Field Museum

Joseph Cummings

Abram Winegardner Harris

O'Brien's Art Emporium

  • Michigan Avenue looking north
    Image | 1919 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "A view of Michigan Avenue looking north across Grant Park."
  • General perspective looking north
    Image | 1919 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "General perspective looking north, shows area affected by North Michigan Avenue extension. Drawing by A. N. Rebori."
  • Branch reading room
    Image | 1911 | Picture ChicagoFrom text: "A goodly portion of well-chosen juvenile books serves to attract the children of the neighborhood, whose interest is further enlisted by means of an occasional story hour, when stories of the famous myths and heroes of other times and climes are told by an expert children's librarian."
  • Furnace rooms and annealing building
    Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "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.
  • LaSalle Street
    Image | 1875 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "LaSalle Street, Chicago, south from Washington."
  • General views, looking S.W. and west
    Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoViews of Chicago Railway Equipment Co. plant in Marion, Indiana.
  • Residence of E. S. Shepherd
    Image | 1910 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Residence of Mr. E. S. Shepherd. 6341 Sheridan Road, North Edgewater."
  • Reference room
    Image | 1911 | Picture ChicagoFrom text: "… the Reference Department, designed to serve and assist readers who may come to pursue their studies within the Library building. This department controls the entire resources of the Library. No card or guaranty of any sort is required, the only condition being that books shall not be taken from the room. All books that circulate for home use may be used here, a...
  • Reading room for young people
    Image | 1911 | Picture Chicagoto offer aid and counsel in the preparation of school work, essays, and debates
  • Skandinaven Building
    Image | 1893 | Picture Chicagoforty-two pages. The Skandinaven was at its birth a four-page weekly paper.... To-day it has a larger circulation than any other paper printed in the Scandinavian language in this country."
  • Inter-Ocean Building
    Image | 1893 | Picture Chicagowho, on March 25, 1872, founded the Inter-Ocean. The republicanism of the initial number of the InterOcean was of the most stalwart order ... Mr. Scammon went into the enterprise with characteristic zeal and energy, and ... soon made the Inter Ocean a political power, not only in the city and State, but throughout the Northwest."
  • Shop No. 2
    Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "N. E. Corner Shop No. 2."
  • Residence of Wm. H. Fahrney
    Image | 1910 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Residence of Mr. Wm. H. Fahrney. 6171 Sheridan Road, North Edgewater."
  • St. Vincent's Hospital
    Image | 1893 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "[Engraved for The Standard Guide Company.] St. Vincent's Infant Asylum and Maternity Hospital. [See "Hospitals"]". From text: "St. Vincent's Infant Asylum and Maternity Hospital.--Located at 191 LaSalle ave. Take Clark or Wells St. cable lines. Conducted by the Sisters of Charity. This institution is for the care of infants and children under five years of age, who...
  • Residence of Albert G. Wheeler
    Image | 1910 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "East front of Mr. Albert G. Wheeler's marble residence. (Overlooking Lake Michigan.) 6355 Sheridan Road, North Edgewater." The building is now called Piper Hall and is owned by Loyola University Chicago.
  • Pullman Building
    Image | 1891 | Picture ChicagoFrom text: "In height it corresponds to the Virginia Hotel, corner Rush and Ohio Streets, and the Pullman and Studebaker Buildings on Michigan Avenue--140 feet."
  • Bolster department
    Image | 1908 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Bolster Dep't Hydraulic Press Multiple Punch". Photograph is included in section on company's Detroit facility.
  • Chicago general offices
    Image | 1908 | Picture Chicago
  • View northeast from Court House dome
    Image | 1910 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Views from the Court House dome in 1858 Clark and Randolph Streets By Courtesy of the Chicago Historical Society"
  • State Street, Near Washington
    Image | 1910 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Street Scenes Before the War State Street, Near Washington By Courtesy of the Chicago Historical Society"
  • Clark and South Water Streets
    Image | 1910 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Street Scenes Before the War Intersection of Clark and South Water Streets By Courtesy of the Chicago Historical Society"
  • Tremont House
    Image | 1910 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "The Tremont House By Courtesy of the Chicago Historical Society". The Tremont House was located at the southeast corner of Lake and Dearborn Streets. (Source: Early Chicago Hotels, by William R. Host and Brooke Ahne Portmann (2006).
  • Mary Galloway Clybourne
    Image | 1910 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Mr. and Mrs. Archibald Clybourne, types of the pioneer By Courtesy of the Chicago Historical Society". Photograph is undated but appears to be from the 1860s.
  • Crosby's Opera House
    Image | 1910 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "The Grand Army Reunion of 1868 at Crosby's Opera House Lt.-Gen. Sherman Delivering Address of Welcome (This Building then Ranked as "the Most Imposing Art Temple of the Country")"
  • John A. Logan
    Image | 1910 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Black Jack "Logan (Major-General and Congressman-at-Large)"
  • Rev. Robert Collyer
    Image | 1910 | Picture ChicagoFrom text: "Quite a few interesting legends have grown up around this brainy and muscular Christian… he preached from the text, 'He that has no sword, let him sell his garment and buy one.'"
  • Rev. O. H. Tiffany
    Image | 1910 | Picture ChicagoFrom text: "For the Methodists, Drs. T. M. Eddy and O. H. Tiffany stood out conspicuously. Dr. Eddy was a trenchant, forceful speaker, while Dr. Tiffany joined to a high intellectuality a gift of oratory now seldom equalled in the pulpit. He was untiring in his zeal for the cause of the Union."
  • Wigwam, site of 1860 Republican Convention
    Image | 1910 | Picture ChicagoCaption: The "Wigwam" where the Republican National Convention of 1860 challenged slavery by the nomination of Abraham Lincoln. Source for creator name: Lost Chicago (2000), by David Gerrard Lowe, p. 235.
  • William B. Ogden
    Image | 1910 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "William B. Ogden (Chicago's First Mayor, and "Biggest All-round Man in the Northwest")". Photograph is undated but appears to be from the 1860s.
  • Lincoln funeral procession in Chicago
    Image | 1910 | Picture Chicago
  • Safe deposit vaults
    Image | 1902 | Picture ChicagoFrom text: "Between these sets of apartments is the great treasure room of the safe deposit vaults--the immense room which is lined with 6,000 private safe deposit boxes of various sizes. The floor of this apartment is made of chrome-steel plates, three one-inch plates being riveted together, making a drill-proof and bomb-proof floor. The ceiling and side walls are construct...
  • Semi-Centennial Celebration Chicago Fire
    Image | 1921 | Picture ChicagoText in image: "Chicago the Great Central Market. Semi-Centennial Celebration Chicago Fire October 2-15". Caption: "Poster proclaiming celebration of Great Fire anniversary. The personifying figure of Chicago was given to the city by The Inter Ocean, March 20, 1892, when that paper, now extinct, but long maintained as a Republican authority by Wm. Penn Nixon, was in possessi...
  • Victory parade on State Street
    Image | 1910-1919 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Chicago's latest department store, with victory parade of returning forces."
  • Chicago River before 1871
    Image | 1860-1869 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Looking east from Rush Street bridge in days before the Great Fire, when a forest of masts distinguished the traffic of the Chicago River. Permission of International Harvester Company."
  • Daniel Hudson Burnham
    Image | 1899 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Daniel Hudson Burnham, director of works of World's Columbian Exposition and author of the Chicago Plan. From portrait by Zorn, by permission of Mrs. Burnham."
  • Orrington Lunt
    Image | 1912 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Orrington Lunt: Early resident of Chicago and Evanston, and liberal benefactor of Northwestern University". From text: "The first subscription made to the Northwestern University was that of Orrington Lunt for five thousand dollars," and "Among the trustees the school must forever be indebted to the wisdom and munificence of the late Grant Goodrich, Orrington Lunt ...
  • New Field Museum
    Image | 1920 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "The New Field Museum."
  • Joseph Cummings
    Image | 1912 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Joseph Cummings: President of Northwestern University from 1881 until his death in 1890". From text: "Before Dr. Joseph Cummings was chosen as president on June 21, 1881, the University had passed through five years of severe financial retrenchment and painful anxieties. ... The financial aspect of the affairs of the University began greatly to improve about this p...
  • Abram Winegardner Harris
    Image | 1912 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Abram Winegardner Harris: President of Northwestern University from 1906 until the present time". From text: "The next president of the University was Abram Winegardner Harris, who was elected on February 1st, 1906. Dr. Harris had already served as a college president, and was well equipped for the responsibilities assumed on this occasion. His scholarship and abil...
  • O'Brien's Art Emporium
    Image | 1869 | Picture ChicagoText in illustration reads: "O'Brien's Art Emporium, 51 State St., Chicago. Artist's materials and decalcomanie designs. Engravings, Chromos and Picture Frames." From text: "O'Brien's Art Emporium.--There is no city in the United States which, to-day, in proportion to its age and population, can boast of so large a number, such hard-working, and such talented artists as the ...