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| Title | Lake Shore, from Foot of 23rd Street, ca. 1893 |
| Description | Reproduction from a viewbook. Lake Shore, from Foot of 23rd Street, ca. 1893. Rubbish from the Fire was used to fill in the area on the lakeshore between the outlying Illinois Central railroad track and the breakwater built twenty years earlier. This land reclamation project, which continued for fifty years, created Chicago's network of parks and open spaces. Although the Chicago Fire destroyed Olmsted and Vaux's scheme for the city's parks and lakeshore, civil engineer Horace W.S. Cleveland took their plans and began to make changes when he appointed landscape architect on September 1, 1872. While Cleveland's plan did not provide for the dredging of the canals connecting Jackson and Washington Parks, part of the South Park was still developed. Olmsted's designs, however, would re-emerge in 1893, when he returned to Jackson Park to design the grounds for the World's Columbian Exposition. |
| Neighborhood/Street/Venue | Twenty-third Street (Chicago, Ill.)
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| Subject.TGM1 | Debris
Beaches
Coastlines
Lakes & ponds
People
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| Subject.LCSH | Reclamation of land -- Illinois -- Chicago
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| Photographer/Artist/Creator | Unknown
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| DateOfOriginal | 1893 |
| Time Period | 1890; 1891; 1892; 1893; 1894; 1895; 1896; 1897; 1898; 1899 |
| Repository Name | Chicago Public Library Special Collections and Preservation Division
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| Repository Number | PHOTOGRAPH SPE-CCW 16.64 |
| Collection | Chicago City-wide Collection
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| Rights | http://www.chipublib.org/aboutcpl/cplpolicies/policies/photo_reproduct.php |
| Type | Digital image; |
| Format | image/jpeg; |
| Original format | Photographs
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| Size | 5.9 X 4.1 in. |
| Subject.LOCAL | great fire
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