Chicago at the Turn of the Century in Photographs

122 Historic Views from the Collections of the Chicago Historical Society

Larry A. Viskochil

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Year: 2013
• ISBN:
  9780486142326
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: History

Remarkable collection of 122 vintage views, most dating from 1904 to 1913. Rare large-format prints offer detailed views of the city's architecture and street life, including City Hall, State Street, the Loop, Hull House, Union Station, Comiskey Park, Lincoln Park Zoo, and many other landmarks. Introduction. Captions. Maps.

A NOTE ON THE CAPTIONS

The views are basically arranged geographically from north to south and, at each north-south level, from east to west (see the maps on pages vi and vii). The final element in each caption (in parentheses) is the Barnes-Crosby sequence number (in the form “BC-49”); these numbers are used in the exhibition and should be referred to whenever contacting the Chicago Historical Society for reproductions, further information, etc.

When the main subject of a photograph is a building (or a group of buildings), the caption includes the following information wherever applicable: chief name of building; alternate names (that is, earlier or later ownership, etc.) in parentheses; address; year of opening of building (these years are not the dates of the photographs); year of demolition, if known (in a range of dates, such as “1891–1936,” the first year is that of the opening, the second year that of demolition); architect or architectural firm (without the word “architect”). Thus for example, caption 38, is to be interpreted as: “Andrews Building; also known as Herald Building; located at 161–65 West Washington Street; opened 1891; demolished 1936; designed by the architectural firm of Burnham & Root.”

Andrews Building (Herald Building), 161–65 West Washington Street, 1891–1936. Burnham & Root.

1.Lincoln Park Zoo. (BC-49)

2. Augustina Hospital, on triangle south of Dickens Avenuz between Cleveland and Lincoln Avenues, 1893 with an addition in 1903, demolished after new hispital at Sedwick Street, a block east, was built in 1925/26. (BC-226)

3. Chicago Academy of Sciences. Clark Street at Armitage Avenue, 1893. Normand Smith Palton and Reynolds Fisher. (BC-62)

4. Group with band at the statue of Ko

ciusko at the north entrance of Humboldt of Park. Statue dedicated 1904. Sculptor, Alexander Chodinski. (BC-59)

5. Germani Club, Northwest corner Grmanania Place and North Clark Street, 1888. (BC-260)

6. Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Cathedral. 1121 North Leavitt Street, 1903. Louis II. Sullivan. (BC-263)

7. Newberry Library, 60 West Walton Street, 1892. Henry Ives Cobb. (BC-99)

8. Water Tower and Pumping Station, looking southest, 1869. W.W Boyngton. Survive...