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1. Chicago South Park Commission, Plan of the South Open Ground..., as proposed to be laid out by Olmsted, Chicago South Park Commission, Plan of the South Open Ground..., as proposed to be laid out by Olmsted, Vaux & Company, Landscape Architects, 1871 The design for Chicago's park system began in 1869, with Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux’s ambitious proposal for the South Park.
2. Illinois Central Rail-Road Company Offer (sic) for Sale Over 2,400,000 Acres, Selected Prairie, Farm Illinois Central Rail-Road Company Offer (sic) for Sale Over 2,400,000 Acres, Selected Prairie, Farm and Wood Lands Covers (Illustration); Advertisements; Selling; Land In the decade between 1850 and 1860, the Illinois Central had transformed the face of the Chicago lakefront, and had stimulated the development of the city's outlying areas. The era of railroad growth...
3. Lake Shore, from Foot of 23rd Street, ca. 1893 Lake Shore, from Foot of 23rd Street, ca. 1893 Debris; Beaches; Coastlines; Lakes & ponds; People 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...
4. C.W. Caryl to James W. Ellsworth, November 14, 1893 C.W. Caryl to James W. Ellsworth, November 14, 1893 Exhibition buildings; Deterioration; Conservation & restoration; Meetings Typed letter, signed. Just two weeks after the close of the Fair, Chicagoans were already thinking about how to save the majestic, yet deteriorating, buildings of the World’s Columbian Exposition. In...
5. East Side of the Transportation Building, 1893 East Side of the Transportation Building, 1893 Facades; Deterioration; Sculpture The World's Columbian Exposition buildings stood with elegant facades, presenting a city in trompe-l'oeil, an optical illusion. They were designed to be temporary, however, and Fair visitors would recollect...
6. Court of Honor, ca. 1893 Court of Honor, ca. 1893 Fairs; Monuments; Flags; Flagpoles; Fountains; Canals; Gondolas; Buildings; Optical illusions; Waterways; Gardens In 1890, nearly twenty years after the Great Chicago Fire and at the zenith of his career as an urban planner and landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmsted found the opportunity to resurrect his plan...
7. Sunset on the Dream City Sunset on the Dream City Gondolas; Sailboats; Boats; Sunrises & sunsets; Clouds; Smoke; Buildings; Facsimile watercolor.
8. View of the Breakwater from Michigan Avenue, n.d. View of the Breakwater from Michigan Avenue, n.d. Jetties; Lakes & ponds; Men; View of the Breakwater from Michigan Avenue, n.d. Copelin & Melander, photographers.
9. Luncheon by Daniel Hudson Burnham, architect, to his business city planning colleagues, when the Plan Luncheon by Daniel Hudson Burnham, architect, to his business city planning colleagues, when the Plan of Chicago was completed in 1908 Meetings; Conference rooms; Tables; Men; Government officials; City planning; p. 1020 photo caption: "Luncheon by Daniel Hudson Burnham, architect, to his busines city planning colleagues, when the Plan of Chicago was completed in 1908." The name of each person in the photo follows...
10. Mayor and Common Council of the City of Chicago, Praying an Appropriation to Protect that City from the Mayor and Common Council of the City of Chicago, Praying an Appropriation to Protect that City from the Encroachments of Lake Michigan, February 17, 1840 Petitions; Mayors; City council members; Taxes; Mayor Alexander Lloyd and the Common Council did not plead for an appropriation of money from the Government. Instead, they asked for an "unconditional donation" of the land in the Fort Dearborn Addition...
11. Plan of Chicago in 1925: Fifteen Years Work of the Chicago Plan Commission, 1925 Plan of Chicago in 1925: Fifteen Years Work of the Chicago Plan Commission, 1925 Plans; Reclamation of land; Coastlines; Digital reproduction of a page on Chicago lake front from the book The Plan of Chicago in 1925: Fifteen Years Work of the Chicago Plan Commission. Issued from the headquarters of the Chicago Plan Commission,...
12. View of Chicago in Ruins from the Michigan Avenue Hotel, 1871 View of Chicago in Ruins from the Michigan Avenue Hotel, 1871 Ruins; Buildings; Hotels Stereograph. View of Chicago in Ruins from the Michigan Avenue Hotel, 1871. Lovejoy & Foster, photographers. Fifty years of steady growth ended on October 8, 1871, when the Great Chicago Fire destroyed...
13. Chicago Crib, from Chicago Illustrated Chicago Crib, from Chicago Illustrated Sailboats; Structures; In the mid-1800s, as today, Chicago was supplied with water from Lake Michigan. At that time however, water was drawn only about one mile north of the Chicago River, into which the city sewers discharged...
14. S.S. "Christopher Columbus" (Whaleback), 1893 S.S. "Christopher Columbus" (Whaleback), 1893 Ships; Passengers; Piers & wharves; Whalebacks; Steamboats The S.S. Christopher Columbus is the most famous "whaleback" of the 43 ships of this type built. Whalebacks were developed in Duluth, Minnesota, by Captain Alexander MacDougall for freight service. The...
15. S.S. Missouri, August 11, 1934 S.S. Missouri, August 11, 1934 Steamboats; Lakes & ponds; Built in 1904 for the Northern Michigan Transportation Company of Chicago, the Missouri was sister ship to the S.S. Illinois. In the days before highway transportation for freight and mail, these vessels...
16. Michigan Avenue, Plan of Chicago, 1909 Michigan Avenue, Plan of Chicago, 1909 Streets; Plans; Proposed boulevard to connect the north and south sides of the river; view looking north from Washington Street. The boulevard is raised to allow free flow of east-and-west teaming traffic under it, and...
17. South Branch of the Chicago River, Plan of Chicago, 1909 South Branch of the Chicago River, Plan of Chicago, 1909 Waterways; Waterfronts; Boats; Plans; View looking north on the south branch of the Chicago River, showing the suggested arrangement of streets and ways for teaming and reception of freight by boat, at different levels. Plan of Chicago by...
18. View from Lake View House, from Chicago Illustrated View from Lake View House, from Chicago Illustrated Wooden buildings; Houses; Waterfronts; Trees; Sand; Settlements Chicagoans lived in houses built of wood, and the city extended several miles along the sandy dry shore of Lake Michigan.
Literary description by James W. Sheahan. Illustrations by the Chicago Lithographing...
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