Rare Vintage Photos of Chicago’s Streets and Landscapes From The 1910s

#1 Grant Park, south from Art Institute. Chicago circa 1911.

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#2 State Street, Chicago. 1912.

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#3 Sailors at Great Lakes US Naval Training Station in Illinois, ca. 1915.

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#4 Evans house east facade with porch to left and porte cochere to right, Chicago, 1912.

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#5 Hull House, Chicago, 1911.

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#6 Washington Boulevard, Chicago, 1911.

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#7 Emigrants’ room, Chicago, 1912.

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#8 The Santa Fe grain elevator, head of the canal. Chicago circa 1915.

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#9 The Santa Fe grain elevator, head of the canal. Chicago circa 1915.

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#10 View of the merchants and passersby at the South Water Street Market in Chicago, 1910s.

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#11 Agents Destroying Slot Machines in Chicago, 1910s.

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#12 Fire Engines at New Fire Station Chicago, 1917.

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#13 Steamer Christopher Columbus. Chicago circa 1911.

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#14 Madison Street, Hotel Brevoort & La Salle Opera House. Chicago ca. 1910.

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#15 Grant Park and Blackstone Hotel on Michigan Avenue. Chicago circa 1910.

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#16 Elizabeth McCormick Open Air School No. 2, on roof of Hull House boys club, 1917.

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#17 Train sheds, Chicago & North Western Railway station. Chicago circa 1911.

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#18 Van Buren Street Station. View north along Michigan Avenue. Chicago circa 1915.

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#19 Grandstands at the Chicago Coliseum awaiting delegates to the Republican National Convention in June 1916.

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#20 Chicago train sheds, Chicago & North Western Railway. Circa 1911-1915.

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#21 In the heart of the shopping district on State Street, Chicago, 1914.

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#22 Lexington Hotel, located at the corner of Michigan Avenue and 22nd Street in Chicago, 1910s.

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#23 Looking North On Clark Street. Chicago circa 1910s.

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#24 The Hull House complex at 800 South Halsted Street included a kindergarten, daycare facility, classrooms, libraries, and meeting spaces for neighborhood residents, Chicago, ca.1910.

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#25 View of livestock pens and workers herding sheep at the Union Stock Yard. Chicago circa 1910s.

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#26 Looking up busy State Street, north from Madison. Chicago circa 1915.

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#27 Traffic on State Street. Chicago circa 1912.

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#28 A group portrait of three women and two men outdoors on the steps of the Yerkes Observatory, a facility of the University of Chicago, 1910s.

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#29 Children splashing in a pond in Lunapark in Chicago, 1910s.

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#30 Fine Arts Building at 410 South Michigan Avenue in the Loop community area, Chicago, 1910s.

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#31 A view of the floor at the Chicago Automobile Show, 1910s.

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#32 View of Jefferson Street north from Ewing Street. Chicago circa 1910s.

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#33 Madison Avenue & Brevoort Hotel. Chicago circa 1913.

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#34 State Street, south from Madison. Chicago circa 1913.

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#35 Railway Exchange and Gas Buildings. Chicago circa 1913.

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#36 Exterior view of a building at 6657 S. State Street which operated a counterfeit coin operating racket, Chicago, 1911.

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#37 View of Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, 1911.

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#38 Cerf Meyer’s saloon at 848 Blue Island Avenue in Chicago, 1911.

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#39 U.S. Mail Dept., Chicago & North Western Railway station. Chicago circa 1912.

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#40 Zion Temple located at North Ogden Avenue and West Washington Street in the Near West Side community. Chicago، 1911.

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#41 DePaul University building. Chicago circa 1911.

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#42 Peoples Gas Building. Chicago circa 1911.

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#43 Hyde Park neighborhood, Chicago, 1912.

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#44 People standing in front of a Giant Redwood plank, now used as a table in the Field Museum Botany department. Chicago, August 1911.

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#45 Botany Herbarium Specimens. Chicago, January 29, 1912.

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#46 Civil War veterans marching in a Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Day parade in South Michigan Avenue. Chicago, May 27, 1912.

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#47 Civil War veterans marching in a Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Day parade in South Michigan Avenue. Chicago, May 27, 1912.

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#48 Passenger Terminal, Madison Street Entrance. Chicago circa 1912.

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#49 Crowd Standing at Entrance to Coliseum during Republican National Convention. Chicago, June 1912.

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#50 Lobby Stairs to Waiting Room and Concourses, Chicago, 1912.

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#51 Chicago White Sox baseball players. Chicago, 1913.

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#52 Casting desk at Modelling Shop. Chicago, 1913.

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#53 Interior of a Pullman Car. Chicago, September 12, 1913.

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#54 Houses on Federal Street, in the Levee District, Chicago, 1914.

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#55 Women’S Suffrage Parade Marching on South Michigan Avenue. Chicago circa 1914.

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#56 Children playing in water from hydant. Chicago 1914.

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#57 Edward Hines Lumber Company yard. Chicago circa 1914.

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#58 Edward Hines Lumber Company yard. Chicago circa 1914.

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#59 Fishing Pier, Chicago, 1915.

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#60 Grant Park, Chicago, 1915.

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#61 Blue Island Savings Bank at 1147 Blue Island Avenue, Chicago, 1915.

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#62 Motorbikes racing at Speedway Park, Maywood, Chicago, 1915.

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#63 Survivors of the Eastland being lead ashore by the tugboat Kenosha. Chicago, 1915.

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#64 Boys boxing in front of Chicago Hebrew Institute gymnasium and natatorium at Taylor and Lytle Streets in Chicago, 1915.

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#65 Auditorium Theater, Chicago, 1915.

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#66 A rescue worker, dressed in a diving suit, leaps into the Chicago River at the site of the Eastland disaster, July 24, 1915.

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#67 Titanic exhibition at Riverview Park, Chicago, 1916.

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#68 Field Museum construction site of men hauling materials up to outer wall, Chicago, 1916.

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#69 Newberry Library, in Chicago, 1918.

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#70 Crowd in front of a storefront with the sign Bank Real Estate during the 1919 Chicago Race Riots.

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#71 3rd Division soldiers marching in lines on North State Street in the Loop community area of Chicago, 1919.

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