Early 20th Century Wing:
Chicago Street Scenes
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street name (i.e. State Street cards are together), then by postmark date when possible.
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Clark Street, North from Lake
Street, Chicago - "Elite" #
231
Suhling & Koehn Co., Pub.,
Chicago - <Germany> -
pm 1907 |
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Entrance to Grand Boulevard
at 35th Street, Chicago - # 52
Unknown Publisher -
pm 1911 |
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Haymarket Square,
Chicago - # 97
M.
Glucklich, Chicago |
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Haymarket Square,
Chicago - # 110
Unknown Publisher -
pm 1911 |
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Lake Drive, Lincoln Park, Chicago,
ILL - # 7475
Detroit Photographic Co. -
pm 1905 |
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Lake Shore Drive,
Chicago, ILL -
# 1561
Souvenir Post Card Co., New York
and Berlin
note:
Glitter Applied by Manufacturer |
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Lake Shore Drive,
Chicago -
# 714
V.O. Hammon Pub. Co., Chicago
- pm 1910 |
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Lake Shore Drive, Lincoln
Park,
Chicago -
# 284
Max Rigot Selling Co.
Chicago
©1911
- pm 1919 |
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Lake Shore Drive, North from
Drake Hotel, Chicago - # 281
Max Rigot Selling Co.
Chicago
©1911
- pm 1924 |
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Lake Shore Drive and Oak
Street Beach, Chicago - # 219
©
Max Rigot |
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Outer Drive (Lake Shore
Drive) Link Bridge and Skyline,
Chicago - # 267
Max Rigot Selling Agency.
Chicago |
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La
Salle Street, Chicago
(Illinois Trust & Savings Bank
at Right) - # 1732
V.O. Hammon Pub. Co., Chicago
- pm 1912 |
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Looking Down La Salle Street, Chicago
(Chicago Board of Trade) - # 146
Curt Teich & Co., Inc. -
ca. 1930 |
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Michigan Boulevard, Chicago
Unknown Publisher |
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Michigan Avenue Opposite
Grant Park, Chicago - # 100
Unknown Publisher |
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Michigan Avenue, Chicago - # 568
Unknown Publisher -
pm 1912 |
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Michigan Avenue, Showing
Crane Building, Congress Hotel
and Annex and Auditorium,
Chicago - # 221
Max Rigot Selling Co.
Chicago
- pm 1916 |
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Michigan Avenue, North from
Blackstone Hotel, Chicago - #
354
Max Rigot Selling Co.
Chicago - pm 1919
note:
Double Strike Print on back
description. |
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Skyline of Chicago from Grant
Park - #
194
Genuine Curteich,
Chicago |
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Michigan Boulevard, Looking
North, Seen from Aeroplane. Chicago - #
252
Max Rigot Selling Co.
Chicago |
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Aero View of Michigan Avenue
Showing Wrigley, Tribune Tower
and London Accident Insurance
Building,
Chicago - # 209
Gerson Bros., Chicago -
pm 1925 |
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South Michigan Avenue Taken
from Grant Park, Chicago - #
74256
Chas. Levy Circulating Co.,
Chicago |
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Water Tower and Palmolive
Building, Upper Michigan Avenue,
Chicago - # 313
Max Rigot Selling Co.
Chicago |
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Alexander McKinlock Memorial
Campus, Northwestern University,
Chicago - #514
Gerson Bros., Chicago |
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Street Scene South Water Street,
Chicago - Empire Art Series
Unknown Publisher -
pm 1909 |
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South Water Street,
Chicago - # 508
V.O. Hammon Pub. Co., Chicago -
pm 1912 |
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State Street,
Chicago - # 684
H.C. Leighton Co.
Portland, Maine - <Germany> |
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Corner of State and Madison
Streets,
Looking North, Chicago - # 1569
Souvenir Post Card Co.,
New York - pm ca.1900 |
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State and Madison Streets,
Chicago - # 5394
©
E. Phillips
1907 - pm 1907 |
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State Street, North of Adams
Street,
Chicago - # 1648
A.C. Rosselman & Co., New York -
<Germany> |
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State Street, North from
Madison, Chicago
Unknown Publisher - pm 1911 |
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State Street, Chicago - # 175
V.O. Hammon Pub. Co., Chicago -
pm 1911 |
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State Street South from
Randolph Street,
Chicago - # 800
V.O. Hammon Pub. Co., Chicago |
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State Street Looking North
from Washington Street Showing
Marshall Field & Co. Building,
Masonic Temple, Chicago - # 456
Franklin Post Card Co.
Chicago - pm 1913 |
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Madison and State Street,
Chicago - # 1895
Gerson Bros.,
Chicago - pm 1914 |
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State Street in Carnival
Attire, Chicago - # 539C
Unknown Publisher -
pm 1915 |
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State Street, Looking North
from Van Buren Street, Chicago -
# 359
Max Rigot Selling Co.
Chicago - pm 1918 |
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State and Washington Streets,
Chicago - # 206
Max Rigot Selling Co.,
Chicago |
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The Ghetto,
Chicago - # 700
V.O. Hammon Pub. Co., Chicago |
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Midway and University of Chicago - #
244
Franklin Post Card Co., Chicago |
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Wabash Avenue North from Monroe
Street,
Chicago - # 507
V.O. Hammon Pub. Co., Chicago |
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Wacker Drive Looking Southwest,
Chicago - # 508
Gerson Bros., Chicago |
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New Gateway to Greater Chicago,
Chicago - # 225
Max Rigot Selling Co.,
Chicago - ca. 1929 |
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Chicago - City of Towers - # 216
©
Max Rigot - pm 1946 |
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Wacker Drive Taken from
Merchandise Mart Looking South,
Chicago - # 8
Tichnor Bros., Inc.,
Boston, Mass. - pm 1946 |
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