Chicago Collection (#87)

Chicago Lake Shore Drive
On Saturday and Sunday afternoons in summer the boulevard is thronged with pedestrians and automobiles. Date: 1916

Chicago Baseball Field
The South Side Ball Park is the home of the Chicago White Sox. Date: 1916

Chicago in 1833
Eighty years ago the place where now stands a city of over 2, 000, 000 people was little more than a trading post... No other city has grown with such rapidity. Date: 1916

Chicago Bank
American banks are not like your High Street Barclays : this is Chicagos New Continental and Commercial National Bank which will cost 6 million dollars in 1916. Date: 1916

Hospital, Chicago
Cook County Hospital is staffed by 64 house and 68 attending physicians, and 400 nurses, treating over 4000 charity patients. Date: 1916

Chicago Lasalle St Stn
Chicagos La Salle Street station is terminus for the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific; Lake Shore & Michigan Southern; New York, Chicago & St Louis; Indiana & Southern. Date: 1916

Chicago Streetcar
A streetcar at the entrance to Lincoln Park, Chicago. Date: 1916

Goodyear Blimp Landing Field - Chicago, USA Date: 1933

Scout ceremony with President Johnson
Boy Scout Ferris Taylor presents President Johnson with a walnut plaque bearing the Scout emblem and a gavel. The traditional " Report to the Nation" of the Boy Scouts of America was

American train robbery on Louisville. New Albany and Chicago railroad; the criminal shoots the baggage master. Date: 5th August 1886

Chicago World Fair - General Exhibits Group, housing the Graphic Arts, furniture, office supply, cosmetic, leather, sporting goods and jewellery industries. Date: 1933

Chicago, America
Flags and buildings in Chicago, Ilinois, United States of America circa 2008

Cloud Gate Sculpture, Chicago
Reflection of Chicago skyline in the Cloud Gate Sculpture in Millennium Park in Chicago, America circa 2008

Chicago World Fair - The Lagoon at night Date: 1933

The Wrigley Building, Chicago

The Gas Industries Hall, Lief Ericksen Drive (famous waterfront boulevard) at 26th Street, Chicago, USA - The exhibit of the American Gas Association entitled A Century of Progress. Date: circa 1930s

USA / Chicago 1820
Chicago: distant view of a sparsely populated landscape Date: 1820

AIR RACE POSTER, 1930. A 1930 National Air Race poster from Chicago

RADIO ADVERTISEMENT, 1930. American catalog advertisement, 1930, for radio receivers sold by a Chicago, Illinois, distributor

COLUMBIAN EXPO, 1893. Worlds Columbian Exposition at Chicago, 1893-94. Oil, 1894, by Theodore Robinson

COLUMBIAN EXPO, 1893. Agriculture Hall, Worlds Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893: watercolor, 1893, by F. Childe Hassam

COLUMBIAN EXPO, 1893. The Electricity Building at the Worlds Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893: watercolor by Frederick Childe Hassam

COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION, 1893. East end of Grand Basin at Worlds Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893. Oil on canvas by Charles Courtney Curran

COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION, 1893. U. S. Government Building, Worlds Columbian Exposition, 1893: gouache by F. Childe Hassam
COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION, 1893. U.S. Government Building, Worlds Columbian Exposition, 1893: gouache by F. Childe Hassam

COLUMBIAN EXPO, 1893. Sunset on West Lagoon, Worlds Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893. Oil on canvas by Willard Metcalf

Weather bell in Chicago
Electronic barometer on a building in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Illuminated lettering indicates warmer, colder, no change, snow and rain. A digital thermometer is mounted beneath

Insulators at electricity substation
Spare electrical insulators at master electricity substation, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), Batavia, near Chicago, Illinois, USA

Manhole cover in Chicago
City Elec manhole cover in Grant Park area of Chicago, Illinois, USA

Wilson Hall at Fermilab
Wilson Hall at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), Batavia, near Chicago, Illinois, USA

Fermilab electricity substation
Master electricity substation at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), Batavia, near Chicago, Illinois, USA. Note pylons at lower right designed to represent the Greek letter pi

Botanical sundial, 19th century
Botanical sundial. This sundial was located in one of the parks or horticultural gardens in Chicago, USA, which included several such sundials

Fermilab magnet
Particle beam deflection magnet displayed in lobby of Fermilabs Wilson Hall, Batavia, near Chicago, Illinois, USA

Apollo lunar landing diorama
Apollo Lunar Module diorama at the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, Illinois, USA. John Youngs Apollo spacesuit is posed next to a mock-up of the Lunar Module

Redwood tree house, 19th century
Redwood tree house, 19th-century artwork. This is the General Noble Redwood Tree House, on the National Mall, in Washington DC, USA

Hot air balloon in a storm, artwork
Hot air balloon in a storm. Artwork of a hot air balloon being hit by lightning over Chicago, USA. Illustration from " Le Petit Journal", France (1891)

Hybrid bus in Chicago
A deisel-electric hybrid bus in Chicago

Ornate clock in Chicago
An ornate clock on the corner of a building at E Wacker Place and N Wabash Avenue in Chicago. It has four faces, the word Time under the dials and a figure of Old Father Time on top

Cloud Gate sculpture in Chicago
Cloud Gate sculpture in Millennium Park, Chicago, Illinois, USA. The stainless steel sculpture, by Anish Kapoor, was constructed between 2004 and 2006

Car lights outline the Tevatron accelerator
The circular tunnel containing the Tevatron accelerator at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), Illinois

PATRICK JOSEPH MORAN (1876-1924). American baseball player and manager. Photographed while playing with the Chicago Cubs, 1908

BASEBALL BUTTON. Chicago Cubs button, late-20th century

BASEBALL BUTTON. Button commemorating major league baseballs 1990 All-Star Game, played on 10 July 1990 at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois, home of the Chicago Cubs

LIBERTY IS NOT ANARCHY. Thomas Nasts 1886 cartoon approving The Supreme Courts guilty verdict in the trial of eight alleged anarchists, seven of whom were sentenced to death

ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL (1847-1922). American (Scottish-born) teacher and inventor. Bell at the New York end of the first long-distance telephone call to Chicago, 18 October 1892. Oil over a photograph

FERRIS WHEEL, 1893. The original Ferris wheel designed and constructed by G. W. G
FERRIS WHEEL, 1893. The original Ferris wheel designed and constructed by G.W.G. Ferris for the Worlds Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893

BASEBALL LOGOS. Various logos of American baseball teams, c1955

BUFFALO BILL: POSTER, 1893. Poster for Buffalo Bill Codys Wild West Show at the Worlds Columbian Exposition in Chicago

CHICAGO: FIRE, 1871. The Burning of Chicago. Lithograph, 1871, by Currier & Ives

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