Chicago Collection (page 9)

Candidates for the Republican presidential nomination in Chicago: Bates, Pennington, Chase, Fremont, Lincoln, Seward, Banks, McLean, Cameron, Bell and Clay. Wood engraving (1860)

The Derby, Washington Park, Chicago, USA
Crowds alongside the course and high on the stand watch a group of horses racing in The Derby at Washington Park, Chicago. Date: circa 1895

John Alexander Dowie
JOHN ALEXANDER DOWIE Scottish-American religious healer who in 190i founded a prosperous community at Zion City, near Chicago. Date: 1847 - 1907

Grand Staircase
The wonderful grand staircase of the Illinois Life Insurance Company building, designed by Holabird & Roche, manufactured and installed by the Chicago Art Marble Company, USA. Date: 1930s

Chicago Butchery
Slaughter underway at a Chicago pork butchery. Date: 1886

Slaughtering Beef 1895
Slaughtering cattle at Armour & Co. in Chicago, USA. Date: 1895

Casino De Chicago 1933
The Casino de Chicago stages a hyper-revue to celebrate the end of prohibition: Cocktails for ever Date: 1933

Fort Dearborn Massacre
Chicago-area Indians, on the side of the British, formed a war party led by Chief Blackbird, and ambushed 96 soldiers and civilians being exacuated from Fort Dearborn Date: 15 August 1812

Strikers Stop Train
The wives & children of strikers at the Cummings Nail Mills in Chicago stop a train as a protest. Date: 1886

Theseus Roosevelt and the Minotaur
Theseus Roosevelt and the minotaur : Roosevelt challenges the Chicago beef trusts. Date: 1906

Persepolis - the Ruins
A fairly romanticised view of the ruins of Persepolis, prior to excavation, most of which was carried out by the Institute of Chicago in the 1930s. Date: 1823

Compound passenger locomotive Queen Empress, 2054, America, British train built in 1893, sent to the Chicago Exhibition the same year. It was painted white in honour of Queen Victorias 1897 Jubilee

American football at Soldier Field, Chicago, USA
An American football game in progress at Soldier Field, Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois, USA -- Notre Dame v Northwestern, 10 October 1931. The spectators numbered 75, 000

The Hall of Science Chicago Worlds Fair
The Hall of Science at the Century of Progress International Exposition (Chicago Worlds Fair) 1933/4. It was held to celebrate the citys centennial

Center Platform Downtown Subway - Chicago, Illinois, USA
The Center Platform Downtown Subway (3500ft long) - Chicago, Illinois, USA. Date: 1950s

A dining car railway carriage, Chicago and Alton Railroad, America Date: circa 1900

Firestone Multi-Colour Pylons - A Century of Progress
Multi-Colour Pylons at the entrance to the Firestone Factory and Exhibition Buildings - A Century of Progress, Chicago, Illinois. Date: 1933

Tyler railway station, Minnesota, USA, with a large crowd of people meeting trains of the Chicago and North Western Line, 9 July 1908. Date: 1908

Hammond railway station, Minnesota, USA, on the Chicago and North Western Line. Date: circa 1914

Band playing at Hammond railway station, Minnesota, USA
A band playing on the platform of Hammond railway station, Minnesota, USA, with the arrival of a Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul train. Date: circa 1914

Advertisement, Great Rock Island Route, Chicago, USA
Advertisement for the Great Rock Island Route, Chicago, USA, with a map of railway routes in the Chicago area. Date: 1885

Leaflet cover design, Washington Park Club, Chicago
Leaflet cover design with horseracing scene, Washington Park Club, Chicago, Official Program, Autumn Meeting, 1885. 1885

Official programme, Washington Park Club, Chicago, USA, first day of autumn meeting, 31 August 1885. Listing details for five horse races. Date: 1885

Lockheed 649 Constellation of Chicago and Southern (side view) aloft

The Cameo Ballroom at the Morrison Hotel, Chicago Date: 1920s

Captain J. M. Mitchell of the US Navy in a studio portrait. Date: early 20th century

Wurlitzer advertisement, 1925
Girl of 13 makes $75 a week! Alice Higgie of Chicago made this amount weekly in vaudeville in the summer of 1924, thanks to her easy to play Wurlitzer saxophone. Send for your free book now!

The Great Yerkes Telescope, Chicago University, USA
The Great Yerkes Telescope, Chicago University, Williams Bay, Wisconsin, USA

Telescope at Yerkes Observatory, USA
The eye-end of the 40 inch telescope with double-slide plate carrier - Yerkes Observatory, University of Chicago, Williams Bay, Wisconsin, USA

Advert for Verona metal furniture
A woman plays piano in a 1920s living room with metal furniture from the Chicago Hardware Foundry Company Date: 1926

Poster design for Illinois Central travel
Poster design for Illinois Central, the road of travel luxury, featuring trips from Chicago and St Louis to the Gulf Coast (Beautiful Mississippi), offering sports all the year round

Chicago Exhibition 1933
The impressive World Fair Exhibition buildings, Chicago, USA. Date: 1933

New Hotel Gault, Chicago, Illinois - Madison and Market Sts
New Hotel Gault, Chicago, Illinois, USA - Madison and Market Streets. Date: 1912

The Central Plaza Hotel - Central Avenue, Chicago, Illinois
The Central Plaza Hotel - Central Avenue at Lake Street, Chicago 44, Illinois. Offering " transient or permanent rooms and Apartments". Date: circa late 1940s

Chicago, USA - Looking North on Michigan Boulevard, showing Michigan Boulevard Bridge and some of the tallest buildings in the city at this period

Dearborn Street Station - Chicago, Illinois Date: circa 1906

Junction of State and Madison Streets - Chicago, USA
Junction of State and Madison Streets - Chicago, Illinois, USA. Date: circa 1910s

Jade Pagoda - Rep. of China Building - Century of Progress E
Jade Pagoda - Republic of China Building (Jade Pavilion) - Worlds Fair, Chicago - part of the " A Century of Progress" exhibition. Date: 1933

Scotsman shocked by expensive of the Worlds Fair in Chicago
The Chicago Exhibition McPherson - " Four Dollars for a bed! The extravangance. I canna sleep for thinking o t." Date: 1893

The Stevens Hotel and Michigan Avenue, Sky Line, Chicago, USA. Date: circa 1920

Tomas G. Masaryk - Czech President in Chicago, USA
Tomas G. Masaryk (1850-1937) - President of Czechoslovakia from 1918 - photographed on a visit to Chicago, USA on 5th May 1918. Date: 1918

Chicago - Looking north on LaSalle Street from Monroe
Chicago, Illinois - Looking north on LaSalle Street from Monroe Date: circa 1910s

Auditorium and Annex, Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois Date: circa 1903

Waters of Lake Michigan, Chicago, Illinois at night Date: circa 1903

Chicago, Illinois, USA - Grants Memorial, Lincoln Park Date: circa 1902

Chicago, Illinois, USA - Linne Monument, Lincoln Park Date: circa 1902

Chicago, Illinois, USA - Rookery, Jackson Park, Walks
Chicago, Illinois, USA - Rookery, Jackson Park and Flower Beds and Walks! Date: circa 1902

Chicago, Illinois, USA - Grant Memorial and Public Library Date: circa 1902

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