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Charles H. Wacker

Residence of John C. Bryan

William McJunkin

Central group of Ferguson Fountain

The death of Marquette

Residence of Charles Bosch

Residence of C. C. Linthicum

Residence of Henry W. Schultz

Residence of Franklin Rudolph

Hon. Thomas B. Bryan

Residence of Harry Rubens

Residence of Callistus S. Ennis

Chicago Public Library

Davis Square branch reading room

Residence of Mrs. Potter Palmer

Paul Schulze

Stiles Burton

Reading room

James Ryan, Maclay Hoyne and Frank Johnston, Jr.

Dismissal at noon

Wendell Phillips High School

Teachers' College

Old West Market Hall

Frances E. Willard

Motor squad wagon

Barney Oldfield, Jerry Eller, C. A. Coey

Charles A. Comiskey at opening of new park

Wabash Avenue

Residence of H. F. Perkins

Lake shore plan from Chicago Ave. to 35th St.

Field Museum front elevation

New post office site

Residence of Lincoln J. Carter

South Water Street today

Looking north from bridge

Delivery room

James E. Defebaugh

Residence of R. C. Haskins

Residence of Richard H. Mather

Frederick Francis Cook

  • Charles H. Wacker
    Image | 1919 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Charles H. Wacker, Chairman Chicago Plan Commission."
  • Residence of John C. Bryan
    Image | 1910 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Residence of Dr. John C. Bryan. 5536 Sheridan Road, Edgewater."
  • William McJunkin
    Image | 1919 | Picture ChicagoWilliam D. McJunkin was an advertising executive. He wrote the chapter entitled "Chicago Calls," in Chicago's reconstruction plan.
  • Central group of Ferguson Fountain
    Image | 1913 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "The Ferguson Fountain of the Great Lakes: Central Group."
  • The death of Marquette
    Image | 1916 | Picture ChicagoBook frontispiece. Caption from list of illustrations: "The death of Marquette. From drawing for mosaic, Marquette Building, Chicago, by J. A. Holzer." From text: "At the mouth of Pere Marquette River, where the city of Ludington now stands, he died on May 18, 1675. His companions interred his body in accordance with directions Marquette himself had given. The following year...
  • Residence of Charles Bosch
    Image | 1910 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Residence of Mr. Charles Bosch View of East Front from Birchwood Beach"
  • Residence of C. C. Linthicum
    Image | 1910 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Residence of Mr. C. C. Linthicum 1315 Forest Ave., Evanston, Ill."
  • Residence of Henry W. Schultz
    Image | 1910 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Residence of Mr. Henry W. Schultz Kenilworth, Ill." Designed by architect George W. Maher and completed in 1909.
  • Residence of Franklin Rudolph
    Image | 1910 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Residence of Mr. Franklin Rudolph 745 Sheridan Road, Winnetka, Ill."
  • Hon. Thomas B. Bryan
    Image | 1910 | Picture Chicago
  • Residence of Harry Rubens
    Image | 1910 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Residence of Mr. Harry Rubens Glencoe, Ill."
  • Residence of Callistus S. Ennis
    Image | 1910 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Residence of Mr. Callistus S. Ennis 1437 Pratt Ave., Rogers Park"
  • Chicago Public Library
    Image | 1911 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "The Chicago Public Library". From text: "The Chicago Public Library is a free public institution, established under the Illinois library law of 1872, and maintained by the city as part of its public educational system. It derives its revenue from an annual library tax of approximately four-tenths of a mill, and is governed by a Board of Directors of nine members ap...
  • Davis Square branch reading room
    Image | 1911 | Picture ChicagoFrom text: "The wide distribution of Chicago's population has made it necessary to provide small branch or deposit libraries in the residence districts, thus, in a measure, carrying the benefits of the Library to those who cannot conveniently come to it. These are established at convenient points throughout the city and were formerly housed in rented quarters, frequently in ...
  • Residence of Mrs. Potter Palmer
    Image | 1912 | Picture ChicagoFrom text: "Potter Palmer of Chicago was a member of the Board of Directors of the World's Columbian Exposition, and his wife, Mrs. Bertha M. Honore Palmer, was president of the Board of Lady Managers."
  • Paul Schulze
    Image | 1912 | Picture ChicagoPaul Schulze was president of the Schulze Baking Company of Chicago.
  • Stiles Burton
    Image | 1912 | Picture ChicagoFrom text: "A resident of Chicago ere the city was incorporated and identified with its commercial interests until after the great fire, when the work of rebuilding the city was substantially completed, Stiles Burton has been termed 'one of the men most honored and esteemed among the early citizens of Chicago.' His portraits hangs in the gallery of the Chicago Historic Socie...
  • Reading room
    Image | 1911 | Picture ChicagoFrom text: "The Reading Room for current periodicals is one of the largest rooms in the building occupying the entire north front on the fourth floor. Nearly twelve hundred publications are regularly received and kept on file here, comprising all the popular American and English periodicals, reviews, and weeklies, a selection of the best publications in German, French, and o...
  • James Ryan, Maclay Hoyne and Frank Johnston, Jr.
    Image | 1916 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "James Ryan (central figure), alias 'Prof. Charles T. Crane' of the clairvoyant trust, cleaned up $60,000 in seven months through detective bureau connivance. At right and left are Hoyne and his chief assistant, Frank Johnston, Jr."
  • Dismissal at noon
    Image | 1912 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Dismissal at noon--Jirka School. By courtesy of the Board of Education" Jirka Public Day-School for the Deaf was located on 17th between Loomis and Laflin Sts. (Source: The Volta review, Volume 15, Issue 2.)
  • Wendell Phillips High School
    Image | 1912 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Wendell Phillips High School: Thirty-ninth Street and Prairie Avenue. By courtesy of the Board of Education".
  • Teachers' College
    Image | 1912 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "The Teachers' College: Sixty-eighth Street and Stewart Avenue. By courtesy of the Board of Education."
  • Old West Market Hall
    Image | 1912 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Old West Market Hall: On the site of the present Haymarket Square."
  • Frances E. Willard
    Image | 1912 | Picture ChicagoFrom text: "It is safe to say that no name among the residents of Evanston looms larger on the pages of the country's history than that of Frances Elizabeth Willard. … In 1874, Miss Willard was elected president of the Illinois Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and gave her whole time to the work. In 1883, she projected the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union, of wh...
  • Motor squad wagon
    Image | 1919 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Used for all emergency services in the saving of life and property. Responds to all fires with all regular fire equipment. Carries pulmotor, acetylene cutting device and all heavy tools for extricating persons in a dangerous position, at large fires and railroad accidents, etc. It is considered by the Department as one of the important advances of increased efficie...
  • Barney Oldfield, Jerry Eller, C. A. Coey
    Image | 1912 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Barney Oldfield, Jerry Eller and C. A. Coey in Mr. Coey's racing car."
  • Charles A. Comiskey at opening of new park
    Image | 1910 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Comiskey at the opening of his $1,000,000 baseball park in 1910."
  • Wabash Avenue
    Image | 1912 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "In the Shopping District--Wabash Avenue." View is looking northwest up Wabash Avenue from Monroe Street.
  • Residence of H. F. Perkins
    Image | 1910 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Residence of Mr. H. F. Perkins. 6106 Kenmore Ave., North Edgewater."
  • Lake shore plan from Chicago Ave. to 35th St.
    Image | 1919 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Section I of the original lake shore plan from Chicago Avenue on the north to 35th Street on the south, proposed island park and lagoon
  • Field Museum front elevation
    Image | 1919 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Front elevation of New Field Museum of Natural History just constructed on East Roosevelt Road at Grant Park."
  • New post office site
    Image | 1919 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Chicago's recommended new post office site, new Union Terminal to the left, Northwestern Depot to the right. The Chicago Plan Commission has not recommended a type for the new Chicago postal structure. The above is merely a suggested type to occupy the two blocks recommended on Canal Street between the present Northwestern terminal and the Union Station now under c...
  • Residence of Lincoln J. Carter
    Image | 1910 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Residence of Mr. Lincoln J. Carter. 5522 Sheridan Road, Edgewater."
  • South Water Street today
    Image | 1919 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "South Water Street as it is today--a physical misfit in Chicago's scheme of development." From text: "South Water Street today is an economic waste
  • Looking north from bridge
    Image | 1919 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Looking north from bridge showing monumental arch treatment. Drawing by A. N. Rebori." From text: "Early in the previous year the North Central Business District Association (the name of which has since been shortened to North Central Association) ... invited a number of architects to meet with a committee of its organization with a view to enlisting their interest...
  • Delivery room
    Image | 1911 | Picture ChicagoFrom text: "The Delivery Room proper, which extends across the entire width of the building, with a length of 134 and a depth of 48 feet, is divided into three parts by a rotunda in the center, surmounted by a beautiful stained-glass dome. Elliptical arches rise from the marble piers at the four corners, and the walls above are elaborately covered with mosaics, into which ar...
  • James E. Defebaugh
    Image | 1912 | Picture ChicagoFrom text: "A man of push and enterprise, of promise and of extraordinary great success, a man who worked as very few men have ever labored for themselves, for others or for any cause, a man of action, always aggressive, who stood for big things in every relation, a broadminded man and of the highest type of Christian gentleman--these were some of the expressions which were ...
  • Residence of R. C. Haskins
    Image | 1910 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Residence of Mr. R. C. Haskins 7350 Sheridan Road, Birchwood"
  • Residence of Richard H. Mather
    Image | 1910 | Picture ChicagoCaption: "Residence of Mr. Richard H. Mather 1539 Sherwin Ave., Birchwood"
  • Frederick Francis Cook
    Image | 1910 | Picture ChicagoFrontispiece, illustrating the book's author.
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