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- Chicago Club: 1906
- Circa 1906. "The Chicago Club, Chicago."A number of spectral pedestrians here. 8x10 inch dry plate glass ... View full size.
Built as the Art Institute of Chicago This handsome Richardsonian Romanesque building at the southwest ... Posted by Dave - 09/07/2012 - 12:26pm -
- Chicago: 1905
- Chicago circa 1905. "12th Street Bascule Bridge." Dinosaurs of the ... for this steamer. The permit for its travels between Chicago and Lockport was revoked for the drunken rowdiness of its passengers.
From Proceedings of the Chicago Sanitary District Board of Trustees. June 4, 1902
PRESIDENT ... Posted by Dave - 11/05/2018 - 1:47pm -
- Chicago: 1915
- Chicago circa 1915. "Van Buren Street Station. View north along Michigan ... Jackson Drive would become the very start of Route 66 from Chicago to Los Angeles!
The next two buildings are today known as the Sante Fe Building and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
And of course the Art Institute overlooks the ... Posted by Dave - 07/30/2012 - 10:07pm -
- Pabst Over Chicago: 1943
- ... Street freight depot of the Illinois Central Railroad, Chicago." 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano. View full size.
... behind the Pabst sign at the right edge of the sign is the Chicago Tribune building, and across from it (underneath the main part of the ... Posted by Dave - 05/07/2017 - 2:11pm -
- Southside Easter: 1941
- ... April 1941. "Negro boys on Easter morning, Southside Chicago." Acetate negative by Russell Lee, Farm Security Administration. View ... It's my favorite It's my favorite (Blue Thunder -Chicago)
Have these boys ever been recognized? Does anyone know who ... Posted by Dave - 11/16/2018 - 11:06pm -
- Chicago Bound: 1960
- ... sunny Saturday afternoon at the Lake Bluff stop of the Chicago, North Shore and Milwaukee interurban railroad. The North Shore was one ... train for a weekend of fun and relaxation in downtown Chicago. The attentive motorman is keeping an eye on the conductor for the ... Posted by prrvet - 03/28/2018 - 8:33pm -
- Chicago: 1956
- "Chicago, November 1956." 35mm Kodachrome from the Kermy & Janet archive, ... a set of standard viewing locations for photographing Chicago railroading. This isn't one of them, and is thus valuable. It was probably shot from the train.
Chicago experts should be able to fill in the details, and the exact location, ... Posted by Dave - 01/19/2013 - 9:20pm -
- Boston Market: 1909
- ... negative by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size.
CHICAGO DRESSED? what is CHICAGO DRESSED? building on right.
Re: CHICAGO DRESSED Read the rest of ... Posted by Dave - 06/06/2016 - 4:51pm -
- Chicago: 1901
- Chicago circa 1901. "The lakefront from Illinois Central Station." Panorama of ... Lakeshore Delta If you Google-Maps "901 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60605" you can see that all the Lake Michigan waterfront ... but its steep sloping roof was lopped off long ago.
Chicago: 1901 That statue of the soldier is General Logan, the Civil War ... Posted by Dave - 07/20/2012 - 3:36pm -
- My Grandfather in Chicago: 1893
- ... at Smith & McWhinney studios at 418 63rd Street in Chicago in 1893. If anyone else has photographs from this studio please let me ... Posted by GuyChallis - 04/28/2019 - 10:10am -
- Whiskey Wine Brandy Gin: 1939
- ... like it. Merely decorative? Whatever, I love it.
"Chicago Service" What is it?
Blimey! Whiskey, wine, brandy, ... was in business for a while after that job!
Chicago Service Does the cafe feature surly waiters? Or is that called "New ... Posted by Dave - 09/14/2011 - 6:13pm -
- Showtime in Chicago: 1941
- ... 1941. "The movies are popular in the Negro section of Chicago. Regal Theater and Savoy Ballroom in the Southside neighborhood." ... the same in 1961 when I was producing a series of Chicago jazz sessions for Riverside Records. I took this photo then—notice ... Posted by Dave - 02/11/2019 - 4:09pm -
- Chicago: 1920s
- ... North Clark in the Rogers Park neighborhood of northeast Chicago (Thanks TD for figuring that out). View full size.
Gasoline ... and then later in the country, this is the type of Chicago neighborhood that inspired Frank O. King when he created the ...
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Union Pacific (ex- Chicago & North Western) For true-blue Chicagoans, the three Union ... Posted by globalpillage - 09/14/2011 - 6:23pm -
- Vacation Wagon: 1964
- ... highways, no air conditioner, 4½ hours to get through Chicago and the kids loved it. Took these trips out west to the 1970s. We still ... piece of equipment from South Texas to a parking lot near Chicago, where we would deliver it to his customer from Wisconsin. We quickly ... Posted by Dave - 05/30/2018 - 12:29pm -
- Chicago: 1943
- Chicago, April 1943. "New York Central diesel switch engine moving freight cars ... be too many railroad or automobile pictures on Shorpy!
Chicago north of the river That little brown building to the left is still ... be done. Just no train.
(The Gallery, Kodachromes, Chicago, Jack Delano, Railroads) ... Posted by Dave - 08/10/2012 - 8:36pm -
- Mr. Magazine: 1908
- ... for nearly ten years. Why is he gracing the cover of the Chicago Tribune?
[His uncanny impersonation of William Howard Taft. - ... Thank you.
Taft of Ohio, Not Cleveland The Chicago Tribune cover is graced by the future president, William Howard Taft. ... Posted by Dave - 08/14/2012 - 3:46pm -
- Chicago: 1943, 11:35
- ... Street freight depot of the Illinois Central Railroad at Chicago. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano.
... two blocks away, which would have been the tallest in Chicago if the Great Depression had not resulted in the project's cancellation. ... Posted by Dave - 08/10/2012 - 4:56pm -
- Rear Brakeman: 1943
- ... brakeman, on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe between Chicago and Chillicothe, Illinois, watching the train from the cupola." Photo ... it comes on automatically when it gets dark outside.
Chicago and North Western Line In the King Edward "Invincible" cigar box we ... Posted by Dave - 08/02/2014 - 4:48pm -
- Randolph Street: 1900
- ... September 1, 1900. "Randolph Street east from LaSalle, Chicago." 8x10 glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size. ... can't find a hatless noggin in sight.
Eternal Life in Chicago The Cook County Democratic Party saw to it that you voted even if ... Posted by Dave - 07/20/2012 - 3:42pm -
- Tankar Gas: 1937
- ... always ended at 5th Avenue, but the yard continued to Chicago Avenue where a large viaduct took the tracks across Washington. If you ... Posted by Dave - 02/20/2013 - 11:47am -
- Jam-Parked: 1941
- July 1941. "Parking lot, Chicago." This would look nice in color. 35mm nitrate negative by John Vachon ... models to high end models.
(The Gallery, Cars+Trucks, Chicago, John Vachon) ... Posted by Dave - 05/05/2019 - 1:17pm -
- Driven to Drink: 1930
- December 16, 1930. Chicago. " The Crusaders have new slogans. Miss Elizabeth Thompson was one of ... To Travel While the photo above did not appear in the Chicago Tribune, an article in the paper on Tuesday, December 16, 1930, Page 17 ... William Phillips.
(The Gallery, Bizarre, Cars+Trucks, Chicago, News Photo Archive) ... Posted by Dave - 06/06/2019 - 2:31pm -
- Forest Brook: 1956
- ... I was in 5th grade at the time, in a far western suburb of Chicago. What I remember was the enormous spending on shiny new schools back ... in 1st grade at that time and our classroom in suburban Chicago looked very much like this one. Someone mentioned getting called down ... Posted by Dave - 02/14/2013 - 7:14am -
- Burlington Zephyr: 1939
- ... back!
Zephyresque Today's BNSF commuter trains in Chicago still use corrugated stainless steel coaches and recently have added ... up. Looks like a pig in a prom dress.
Denver to Chicago In 1934 in the depths of the depression an earlier version of this ... Posted by Dave - 09/10/2010 - 10:29am -
- George and Gracie: 1955
- ... it, Gracie said "George got it for me after he went to Chicago on a business trip. He had a brief affair and felt so guilty that he ... then Gracie said, "I hope George goes back to Chicago this year. I could really use a new car."
Looking Ahead Who'd ... Posted by Dave - 06/17/2019 - 1:02pm -
- Wildcats: 1893
- Chicago, 1893. "Actress Lillian Russell (1860-1922), full-length portrait, ... Posted by Dave - 06/23/2019 - 1:03pm -
- Basic Training: 1943
- ... 1943. "Soldier and his girl waiting for a train at Chicago Union Station." Photo by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. ... located in Illinois. The corporal is probably from the Chicago area and was home on leave. Now he's headed back to one of these bases ... Posted by Dave - 03/26/2019 - 3:31pm -
- Hamburgs 10 Cents: 1940
- ... any IPAs. He'll take a hot dog, no ketchup. (We're from Chicago. Order a hot dog with ketchup there, and you'll get the hairy eyeball ... Posted by Dave - 03/27/2019 - 7:29am -
- Industrial Omaha: 1938
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Okay, here's your train geek comment She's a Chicago & North Western class E 4-6-2, built in Schenectady by ALCO in ... Posted by Dave - 06/08/2019 - 4:02pm -
- Dwarfed: 1941
- April 1941. "South Side Chicago. Scene in Negro tavern." The walls adorned with murals from the Disney ... couple are enjoying what in Detroit (and maybe Chicago) we called a "boomba".
Man-icured That fellow in the middle has ... to this social faux pas.) Perhaps the dapper folks in Chicago didn't get the memo?
[Perhaps you've never been to Chicago. - ... Posted by Dave - 12/09/2018 - 10:30pm -
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