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Ice Skaters at Lincoln Park Chicago c1910
Ice Skating at Lincoln Park


This page last updated  March 27, 2011

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1905 New Year Card
1905 "Big Letter" Postcard of Chicago

A

Adams Street, looking east to State
Architects And Their Buildings
Armory- 1st Regiment
Armory - 7th Regiment
Armour Institute, later Illinois Institute of Technology
Art Institute (1st), aka Chicago Club
Art Institute (2nd)
Ashland Block
Atlantic Hotel
Atlantic Hotel Menu (Restaurant Menu 1949)
Auditorium Building
Auditorium,  Fine Arts Building,  Chicago Club
Augustana Hospital, Cleveland Avenue
Austin Neighborhood
ARCHITECTURE & CITY STREETS - MISCELLANEOUS

B
Belair Hotel
Bernarr Macfadden Healthatorium
Bird's Eye View, 1907 (gray tones with glitter)
Bird's Eye View, c 1915-1918
Blackstone Hotel
Board of Trade Building-1909

Brookins in his Aeroplane over Art Institute and Grant Park
Bush Temple
BRIDGES

C

Carson, Pirie, Scott & Company
Central Music Hall (lithograph)
Central Y.M.C.A.
Chamber of Commerce
Colonial Theatre

COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION - 1893 World's Columbian Expo Page 1New
COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION - Page 2New

Chicago Avenue from State Street (from old stereoview)
Chicago After The Fire of 1871 (from old stereoview)

Chicago Athletic Club
Chicago Beach Hotel

Chicago Club, aka original Art Institute
Chicago Historical Society (old)

Chicago Northwestern Depot
Chicago Opera House
City Hall- Cook County Courthouse
Coliseum

Columbia Theater (lithograph)
Columbus Memorial Building
Commercial Avenue Looking North
Congress Hotel
Continental & Commercial National Bank
Cook County Hospital (original) 1910

Cooper Carlton Hotel
Cooper Siegel (aka Leiter II Building)
Corn Exchange National Bank - Banking Room
CLARK STREET

D

Dearborn and Randolph Streets, 1913

Dearborn Street
Dearborn Street  looking South
Dearborn Street Station

Double Deck Motor Bus
Drexel Street
DEARBORN STREET TOUR

E
Elevated Rail "The L"

F
Fair Department Store

Field Museum and Wooded Island - Jackson Park
Ferris Wheel
Fine Arts Building, aka the Studebaker Building
First National Bank
First Regiment Armory
Fisher Building
Fishing on the Pier - Lake Michigan

G
Garrick Theater- originally the Schiller Building

Grand Boulevard at 35th Street
Grand Central Railway Station
Grand Pacific Hotel (lithograph)
Grant Park
Great Northern Building
Great Northern Hotel

H
Halsted Street Lift Bridge
Harper Memorial Library - Univ. of Chicago
Haymarket Square
Heyworth Building
Hotel Atlantic

Hotel Atlantic Coffee House Menu - 1949

Hotel LaSalle
Hotel Metropole

Hotel Sherman
Hull House
Hyde Park High School
HOTELS
HUMBOLT PARK

I
Illinios Central Railway Station
Insurance Exchange (2nd)

J
Jack Knife Bridge & The "L"
Jack Knife Bridge and Chicago Pier
Jackson Boulevard from Board of Trade-1909
Jackson Park & German Building
JACKSON BLVD. TOUR
Jenney, William Le Baron (Bio)


K
Kaiserhof Hotel - Winter Garden
Kent Chemical Lab - Univ. of Chicago
Knights Templar 31st Triennial Conclave, 1910
Knox & Company 5 & 10 Store Monday Bargains

L
Lake Michigan - fishing on the North Shore
Lake Shore Depot (lithograph)
Lake Front Looking South with Logan Statue and Illinois Central Depot
New

Lakeshore Drive with Potter Palmer Residence
Lakeshore Drive 1919
LaSalle Street Arch
LaSalle Hotel

LaSalle Street Station
Leiter II Building- (aka Cooper Siegel)
Liberty Building and Bathing Beach - Jackson Park

Library
"L" Loop, Wabash Avenue
LASALLE STREET TOUR
LINCOLN PARK

M
Madion Street at LaSalle - New Brevoort Hotel, Tacoma Bldg, LaSalle Hotel
Madison Street Bridge, 1910
Madison Street, East from 5th Avenue

Majestic Theatre Building
Mandel Brothers Department Store

Maps of Chicago
Marshall Field Retail Store (lithograph)
Marshall Field
Masonic Temple  (4 views)

Medinah Temple
Mounted Police On Parade

McVickers Theatre
Metropole Hotel

Michigan Avenue from Auditorium
Michigan Avenue, Opposite Grant Park

Michigan Avenue, South  of 20th Street
Monadnock Block
Montgomery Ward & Co. Retail Store
Montgomery Ward & Company Warehouse
Mounted Police On Parade
MICHIGAN AVE. TOUR

N
Newberry Library
North American Building
North Park College
Northwest Passenger Depot
NEIGHBORHOODS

O

P
Palmer House Hotel
People's Gas Building
Police On Parade

Polk Street Station
Post Office

Potter Palmer Residence
Public Library
Pullman Building

Q

R
Railway Exchange Building
Randolph Street
Rector Building
Rookery
Rothschild & Co. Department Store
Rush Street Bridge With Ship
Rush Street Bridge #2
RAILROAD STATIONS
RANDOLPH STREET

S

S. H. Knox & Company 5 & 10 Store Monday Bargains
Sears Roebuck and Company
The Schiller Building-later the Garrick Theater

Seventh Regiment Armory
Sherman Hotel
Ice Skating at Lincoln Park   New
Siegal Cooper Building (aka Leiter II)
Skyscraper District 1907
South Water Street- 1916
South Water Street - 1909
South Water Street-c1909
St. Paul's German Catholic Church
State Street, circa 1905
State Street - 1906
State Street, Looking North from Washington Street-Marshall Field Store
State Street, looking North from Madison Street- 1911

State Street , looking North near Madison Street (c1890 lithograph)
State Street and Madison -1910
State street from Van Buren street to Water street-1910
State Street at Adams - 1917
State Street- Circa 1930's

State Street Bridge
State Street Looking North from Adams - Busy Sidewalk Scene 
State Street in Carnival Attire - Appears to be July 4th 

State Street - Noon Hour on State Street
Charles A. Stevens Department Store
Stock Exchange
Street  Store  in the Ghetto 
Studebaker Building, aka Fine Arts Building
SOUTH WATER ST. TOUR
STATE STREET TOUR

T
Tacoma Building
Telephone Building

Tennant Motor  Limited Building
"The Devil In The White City" (a few scenes mentioned in the book)

Terrace Restaurant (1940's Menu)

The Fair Department Store
The Rookery
Tribune (4 images, 1904-1909)

U
Union Park
Union Station
Union Stock Yards Entrance
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

V
Van Buren Street Station (aka Lake Shore Depot)
Victoria Hotel
Virginia Hotel

W
Wabash Avenue, 1906
Washington Park
Washington Street Bridge
Waterworks Tower
White City Amusement Park at Night

Windemere Hotel
Woman's Temple
WABASH STREET

X

Y
Y.M.C.A.

Z


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