Old Chicago: Fascinating Historical Photos Show What Chicago Looked Like In The 1900s

#1 Twelfth Street bascule bridge over the Chicago River, 1905

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#2 Fine Arts Building, Michigan Avenue, Chicago circa 1903

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#3 The Coliseum, 15th & Wabash Avenue, Chicago, 1907

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#4 Illinois Central Depot, 12th Street and Park Row, Chicago, 1901

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#5 Lake Shore Drive, Jackson Park, Chicago circa 1906

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#6 State Street looking toward Adams, Chicago, 1905

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#7 New York Life building, Chicago, 1900

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#8 Dearborn Street, Chicago, 1907

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#9 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, 1905

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#10 Madison Street, Hotel Brevoort & La Salle Opera House, Chicago, 1910

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#11 Children’s bathing beach, Lincoln Park, Chicago, 1905

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#12 Caravels and La Rabida (Sanitarium for Children), Jackson Park, Chicago, 1905

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#13 The Great Locks, Chicago Drainage Canal, 1908

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#14 The Chicago Club, 1906

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#15 Madison Street east from Fifth Avenue, Chicago, 1900

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#16 Illinois Central Railway station, Chicago circa 1907

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#17 The Heart of Chicago, 1901

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#18 Steamer William E. Corey, the launch, South Chicago, June 24, 1905

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#19 State Street, Chicago, 1905

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#20 12th Street bascule bridge, Chicago circa 1900

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#21 Auto at Monroe Street near State, Chicago, 1908

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#22 The Hand of Man, 1902.

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#23 Track elevation and stone mixer, Chicago, 1901

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#24 Chicago Beach Hotel, Hyde Park Boulevard, 1900

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#25 Grant Park and Blackstone Hotel on Michigan Avenue, Chicago, 1910

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#26 Madison and State streets, Chicago, 1907

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#27 State Street south from Lake Street, Chicago, 1907

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#28 Illinois Theatre, Chicago, 1907

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#29 Marshall Field & Co. department store, State Street, Chicago circa 1908

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#30 Casting pig iron, Iroquois smelter, Chicago circa 1901

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#31 Around a bubbling cup, Lincoln Park, Chicago circa 1910

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#32 Steamer William E. Corey, stern view on the ways, South Chicago, 1905

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#33 The bridge, Lincoln Park, Chicago circa 1905

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#34 Wabash Avenue and elevated tracks,Chicago, 1907

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#35 University of Chicago, Chicago, 1907.

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#36 Michigan Avenue, looking south, Chicago, Illinois, 1900

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#37 State Street, Chicago, Illinois, 1900.

Trams and pedestrians in a busy street scene on one of downtown Chicago's main shopping streets. It is referred to in the song 'Chicago (That Toddlin' Town)' as 'State Street, that great street.'

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#38 Mordecai Brown of the Chicago Cubs, 1903

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#39 Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1900.

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#40 Huskies pulling a sled with an adult and a child riding along a snow-covered residential street, Chicago, 1904.

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#41 Women and children picking up coal from the ground at the coal yards during winter, Chicago, Illinois, 1902.

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#42 Men exiting a Chicago Union Traction Railway streetcar, Chicago, 1906.

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#43 Horse-drawn carriages and a streetcar in the ‘Little Poland’ section of Milwaukee Avenue and Division Street in Chicago, Illinois, 1905

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#44 Elevated train wreck, with one train car off its tracks and lying across the adjacent track in front of another elevated train, 1900s.

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#45 Overturned and damaged train cars from a train accident with men and children standing in front of the wreckage, 1900s.

An accident involving the Doremus Congregational Church excursion train took place in Glenwood, Illinois, on July 13 at 6:55 PM, and 16 people died, more than 80 were injured. The excursion train collided with a coal train known as 'Extra No 144' on tracks of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad Company.

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#46 Interior view of the lobby of the Rookery Building after the remodeling by Frank Lloyd Wright, Chicago, 1905

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#47 View of the elevated tracks on Wabash Avenue, north from Monroe Street, Chicago, Illinois, 1905.

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#48 Group portrait of Barney Oldfield and Dan Canary, motorists, sitting in a car parked next to a garage in Chicago, Illinois, 1905.

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#49 Chicago Ship Building Co. Repairing a lake carrier after a collision, 1905.

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#50 Steamer William E. Corey, interior of hold, South Chicago circa 1905

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#51 A walk in Lincoln Park, Chicago circa 1900

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#52 Randolph Street east from LaSalle, Chicago, 1900

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#53 Interlocking signal plant, Chicago & Alton Railway, 1900

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#54 Jackknife Bridge, Chicago River, 1907

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#55 Jackknife Bridge, Chicago RiverChicago, Illinois, circa 1907

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#56 Pere Marquette transfer boat 18 passing State Street bridge, The Chicago River circa 1910

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#57 Dearborn Street Station, Chicago, 1910

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#58 Arriving from the suburbs, Chicago, 1907

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#59 Jack-Knife Bridge, Chicago River, Chicago, 1907

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#60 Seeing Chicago, auto at Monroe near State, Chicago, 1908

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#61 Children’s bathing beach, Lincoln Park, Chicago, 1905

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#62 Wabash Avenue north from Adams Street, Chicago, 1900

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#63 Masonic Temple, Chicago, 1901

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#64 Great Northern Hotel and office building, Chicago, 1900

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#65 Chicago River east from Rush Street Bridge, Chicago, 1905

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#66 12th Street Bascule Bridge, Chicago, 1905

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#67 Exterior view of a Chicago Yacht Club boathouse under construction with one side covered in scaffolding and the porch partially finished, 1901.

The clubhouse was located in the Chicago Harbor on the shore of Lake Michigan at the foot of East Monroe Street in Chicago.

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#68 Polo player holding a polo mallet, sitting on horseback in a paddock area in front of a barn in Chicago, Illinois, 1901.

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#69 Cyclists, including one African American, positioning on a wooden track to begin a race at a velodrome in Chicago, Illinois, 1901.

Spectators are watching from the bleachers in the background and a group of men is standing in the track inner grass.

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#70 Cyclists, J. E. Gill, C. A. Linde, Ed Bukowski , positioning on their bicycles in front of a crowd on North Michigan Avenue in the Near North Side community area of Chicago, Illinois, 1901.

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#71 Illinois Trust and Savings Bank, Chicago, Illinois, 1900

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#72 View down street of German soldiers on a march from the depot of the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St Paul Railroad on their way to Turner Hall, June 17, 1900.

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#73 Madison Street, East from Fifth Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, 1900

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#74 Shaded Path, Lincoln Park, Chicago, 1900.

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#75 Workers Casting Pig Iron, Iroquois Smelter, Chicago, 1900

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#76 Illinois Theater, Chicago, 1900

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#77 Fine Arts Building, Chicago, 1900

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#78 Montgomery Ward and Co., Tower Building, Chicago, 1900

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#79 University of Chicago, 1900

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#80 Policewoman Parks of Chicago, 1900s

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#81 View of Woods Theatre at 54 W. Randolph Street, Chicago, 1900s

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#82 View of the First Methodist Church, Chicago, Illinois, 1900s

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#83 Chicago’s City Hall and Cook County Courthouse, Chicago, 1900s

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#84 A man using a hose to wash the windows of the George L. Unbehauen Saloon, next to the Northwestern Stove Repair Company Building, Chicago, IL, 1900.

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#85 Exterior of Charles Frederichs Family Resort, located at 5497 Lakeside Avenue, Chicago, 1900s

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#86 Exterior view of the Frank Roder Saloon, located at State and 63rd Streets, Chicago, 1900s.

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#87 Dining room looking southwest, Wright-designed table, chairs, lightscreen and urn are visible, at the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio, located at 951 Chicago Avenue, Oak Park, Illinois, 1902

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#88 Chicago Grain Elevators with Caption ‘The Santa Fe Elevator’, 1900s

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#89 A priest baptizes a congregant in a ceremony at Fox River, at the foot of Lake Street, 1900.

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#90 Weaving in a series detailing the stages of linen production at the Chicago Normal School, Chicago, 1900s

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#91 Exterior view of the Fair Store, on the corner of State and Adams Streets in Chicago, 1900s

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#92 Chicago Lifeboat Station, 1900s

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#93 Steam locomotive & Train passes over Valley Trestle Bridge -Chicago & North Western Railway viaduct over Des Moines River, 1900s

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#94 View of the Monadnock Building (seen on right), on the corner of West Jackson and Dearborn streets, Chicago, 1900s

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#95 Chicago, 1900

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#96 Students at the Chicago Normal School spinning flax into thread, one of the many steps involved in weaving, a manual arts class at Edward Worst’s school, Chicago, 1900

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#97 Alterie And Stewart, 1900

Louis Alterie (left, with fedora) and attorney Scott Stewart (center, smiling) stand with two unidentified men in a room in Chicago. Alterie was a member of O'Banion's North Side gang, and Stewart was a former Chicago DA who turned defense attorney.

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#98 20th Century Brewery, 1900

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#99 War Correspondents, 1900

A group of war correspondents in South Africa during the Boer War. Amongst them is a young Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), middle row second from left, reporting for the Morning Post.

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#100 Chicago Street, 1900

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#101 Bird’s Eye View of the Great Union Stock yards. Chicago, 1900

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#102 Chicago & North Western Railway Viaduct over Des Moines River, near Boone, 1900

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#103 Standard Coal Car, Chicago & Alton Railway, 1900.

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#104 Cityscape, Chicago, Illinois, 1900.

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#105 Boats Along Chicago River, Chicago, Illinois, 1900

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#106 Lake Shore Drive with Palmer Mansion in Background, Chicago, Illinois, 1900

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#107 Bread Carrier, 1900

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#108 Marchand Abat-Jours, 1900

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#109 Chicago, 1900

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#110 The Auditorium, Chicago, 1900.

The Auditorium Building was designed by Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler and completed in 1889. When constructed, it was the largest building in the United States and the tallest in Chicago. It was designed to be a multi-use complex, including offices, a theatre and a hotel. Frank Lloyd Wright worked on some of the interior design as a young apprentice.

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#111 Washington Park Club, Chicago, 1900.

Carriages outside the Club House at Washington Park. The aims of the Washington Park Club, incorporated in 1883, were: 'to promote good fellowship among its members by providing a club house and pleasure grounds for their entertainment where at all times they may meet for social intercourse, and to encourage, by providing the proper facilities, raising, improving, breeding, training and exhibiting horses, at meetings to be held at stated times in each year.'

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#112 Randolph Street, Chicago, 1900.

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#113 Lincoln Park, Chicago, 1900.

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#114 In the heart of the shopping district on State Street, Chicago, 1900s

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#115 A forty horse team in the Barnum and Bailey Circus parade, in Chicago, 1904

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#116 View of Monroe Street, west from Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, 1904.

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#117 Division Street Bridge, view from the side showing the entire bridge from one side and the river underneath, Chicago, 1904.

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#118 A man with a raised cane herding sheep down a ramp leading from a Wisconsin Central railroad car at the stockyards in the New City community area, Chicago, Illinois, 1904.

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#119 A line of cows tied in pens inside a building at the International Live Stock Exposition at the stockyards, Chicago, 1904.

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#120 Man in a white coat pulling an animal carcass that is hanging by a hook along an overhead pulley in the stockyards, Chicago, 1904.

Another man in a white coat stands just behind him. Eight more animal carcasses hang from the pulley behind the one that the man is pulling.

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#121 Men During the 1904 Stockyards Strike, Chicago, 1904

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#122 Stockmen in the stockyards during the stockyards strike, Chicago, Illinois, 1904.

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#123 South Water Street Market looking west toward the elevated train tracks over Wells Street, Chicago, Illinois, 1904.

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#124 Mayor Carter H Harrison, looking up while testifying during the Iroquois Theater fire inquest, Chicago, Illinois, January 1904.

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#125 Men on horseback herding cattle on a street, while other men and boys watch in the background, during the 1904 Stockyards Strike, Chicago.

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#126 Policemen sitting in a classroom, taking the sergeants exam, Chicago, Illinois, 1904.

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#127 Interior view of an unidentified bar located on the Southwest corner of Clark and North Avenue, Chicago, 1904

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#128 Men gathered outside the Cahill Brothers store, during a stock yard strike in the Halsted street area, Chicago, 1904.

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#129 Five men sitting on the porch of a building that has Anchor Lager Beer signs next to its entrances, 1904.

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#130 Iroquois Theatre Fire in Chicago, 1900

The fire which broke out at 3:15 P.M. in the newly erected theatre, a civic pride, was caused by an overheated arc lamp on the stage set fire to a curtain which blew, flaming, out over the audience.

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#131 Iroquois Theatre Fire in Chicago, 1903

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#132 Iroquois Theater at the time of the fire, Chicago, Illinois, December 10, 1903.

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#133 Iroquois Theatre Fire in Chicago, 1903

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#134 Exterior view showing the ladies entrance to the Palmer House hotel at 150 South State Street in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois, September 1903.

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#135 Wagon carrying girls waving flags, moving down a street during a church picnic parade celebrating the feast of St John the Baptist in the Brighton Park community area, Chicago, 1903

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#136 Polska Stacya, a Polish saloon, with children playing and men standing nearby, Chicago, Illinois, May 29, 1903.

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#137 Deaf girls dancing around a maypole in a schoolyard, Chicago, Illinois, May 8, 1903.

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#138 Crowds lined up to pay taxes at the County Treasurer’s office in the City Hall and County Building in the Loop community area, Chicago, Illinois, April 27, 1903.

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#139 Two deaf men standing in front of a fenced yard or field signing to each other during the Automatic Electric Telephone Company strike, Chicago, Illinois, April 23, 1903.

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#140 Streetcar driving on one lane of the Ninety-fifth Street Bridge, spanning the Calumet River in the South Chicago community, while construction work is being done, Chicago, Illinois, March 19, 1903.

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#141 Chicago street scene. State Street north from Adams, 1903

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#142 People standing on a boardwalk and in the sand at the 99th Street beach, looking out at Lake Michigan, in the East Side community area of Chicago, Illinois, 1905.

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#143 A donkey, wearing a harness and reins held by a man, standing in front of an elevator inside a building, Chicago, Illinois, 1903.

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#144 Men riding in a carriage, and two men sitting on the driver’s bench, at the Washington Park Race Track on Derby Day, Chicago, Illinois, 1903.

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#145 A police officer walking in front of a group of policemen gathered along a sidewalk in front of a store during the Chicago City Railway Strike, Chicago, Illinois, 1903

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#146 Exterior view of the Fine Arts Building, also knows as the Studebaker Building, located at 410 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, 1903.

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#147 Exterior view of the Fred M. Kantzler, Jr. Saloon at 2101 South State Street in the Near South Side community area of Chicago, Illinois in 1903.

A pedestrian is walking in front of the store on the sidewalk. A streetlight is visible on the corner and the elevated railroad tracks are crossing 21st Street in the background.

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#148 The busy cross roads between State Street and Madison Street, Chicago, Illinois, 1903.

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#149 Exterior view from North Avenue of the home of Archbishop James Edward Quigley residence (at North Avenue and North State Street in the Near North Side community area), Chicago, Illinois, 1903.

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#150 Exterior view of the southeast corner of the main Chicago Public Library building (later the Chicago Cultural Center, at 78 East Washington Street in the Loop community area), Chicago, Illinois, 1903.

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#151 Christmas shoppers walking in a commercial street, Chicago, Illinois, 1903.

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#152 Girl holding a basket of coal on a street corner by the Salvation Army salvage store with other children and pedestrians in the background, Chicago, Illinois, 1903.

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#153 Exterior view of the Fred M. Kantzler, Jr. Saloon, located at 2101 South State Street in the Near South Side community area of Chicago, 1903.

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#154 Field Columbian Museum building and German Building from World’s Columbian Exposition, Jackson Park, Trees, view towards the east, Lake Michigan, Chicago, 1903.

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#155 A group of spectators sitting outdoors on the grass in chairs in an open semi-circle, with the men wearing suits, and the women wearing long skirts and hats, at the Exmoor Golf Club located at 700 Vine Avenue in Highland Park, Illinois, 1903.

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#156 Racehorse, Lute, with jockey mounted, being led on track by African American handler, Washington Park Race Track, Chicago, 1903.

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#157 Exterior view of Humboldt Park Boathouse with children ice skating and playing hockey on the frozen lagoon nearby in Humboldt Park in the Humboldt Park community area of Chicago, Illinois, 1903.

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#158 Large crowd of people ice skating on the frozen lagoon at Jackson Park in the Woodlawn community area of Chicago, Illinois, 1903.

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#159 Two men with brooms standing on the ice amidst spectators in a curling match at Jackson Park in Chicago, Illinois, 1903.

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#160 Uncle Sam, the oldest resident of Little Hell, a neighborhood in the Near North Side community area, Chicago, Illinois, September 22, 1902.

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#161 Children playing on a seesaw at the Webster School playground, located at Wentworth Avenue and 33rd Street in the Douglas neighborhood, Chicago, Illinois, August 19, 1902.

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#162 View of artists at the Negro Exposition held at the Armory, Chicago, IL, 1902.

The three African American artists show off their hand made crafts, including a chair made of horns.

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#163 Hotel Woodruff on fire with firemen and fire extinguishing equipment on and around the building, Chicago, Illinois, June 19, 1902.

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#164 Wounded man being carried to an ambulance by two policemen during the Teamsters Strike, Chicago, Illinois, June 4, 1902.

The injured man was a non-union driver according to the newspaper caption. Violence on June 2nd between strikers and non-striking stockyard workers had spread on June 3rd to a strike of 1300 drivers and conductors of delivery wagons for downtown department stores and on June 4th into more general riots.

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#165 Cart overturned during a teamsters strike, June 4, 1902.

The cart is lying on its side at Van Buren Street and 5th Avenue in Chicago, Illinois. Many men are walking in the street.

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#166 American railway car, smoking car of the Chicago Limited train by the Chicago and North Western Transportation Company, 1900s

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#167 A man dressed up as Santa Claus holding a sign that reads, Help the Volunteers of America to send Santa down 10,000 chimneys of Chicago’s poor people, on the sidewalk of a commercial street, Chicago, 1902

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#168 Children assembled in and around a horse-drawn carriage during a Chicago Daily News Fresh-Air Fund outing, Chicago, Illinois, 1902

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#169 Derby Day at Washington Park racetrack, Chicago, Illinois, 1902.

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#170 Women and children sitting on a sandy beach while on a Chicago Daily News Fresh-air outing in Chicago, Illinois, 1902.

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#171 Several men standing around a cart filled with baskets of peaches in the South Water Street Market in Chicago, Illinois, 1902

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#172 Women and children picking up coal from the ground at the coal yards, Chicago, Illinois, 1902.

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#173 Image of jockey John Oaks, mounted on a racehorse named Charles Walker, in Chicago, Illinois, 1902.

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#174 View down dirt road of buildings and storefronts along a sidewalk, possibly Main Street, looking north toward the Chicago & Northwestern railroad tracks, Merrillan, 1901

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#175 Madison Street streetcar near the West Side streetcar barn, located at Madison Street near 40th Avenue (Pulaski Road), Chicago, Illinois, 1901

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#176 Hutchinson Hall, Mitchell Tower, Reynolds Club, and Leon Mandel Assembly Hall at the University of Chicago, 1901

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#177 A men unloading crates and barrels from horse-drawn wagons by the waterfront at the docks of Chicago, Illinois, 1905

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#178 Madison Street East toward the Lake from State Street in the city of Chicago, 1905

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#179 Busy Street Scene, State Street, South from Lake Street, Chicago, 1905

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#180 Conservatory, Washington Park, Chicago, Illinois, 1905.

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#181 Elevated Railroad, Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, 1905.

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#182 Crowds During Theodore Roosevelt’s visit to Chicago, 1905

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#183 Chicago Athletic Club, Chicago, 1905

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#184 Santa Fe (also known as Railway Exchange) Building, Chicago, 1905

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#185 Board of Trade Directly after Session, Chicago, Illinois, 1905

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#186 Colonel McCormick, 1906

River inspection trip, Richard O'Sullivan Burke, ex-mayor Edward F. Dunne, Col. Robt. R. McCormick, and Jos. M. Patterson and an unidentified man standing on a boat on the Chicago River, Chicago.

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#187 Exterior view of O’Leary’s saloon with neighboring buildings partially visible and merchants and pedestrians on the sidewalk, Chicago, 1906.

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#188 A store of confiscated illegal slot machines in a storage area in Chicago, Illinois, 1906.

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#189 Street traffic, including a streetcar, horse drawn wagon, automobile and pedestrians, crossing the intersection of State and Madison Streets, Chicago, 1906

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#190 View of the Chicago Federal Building, Chicago, Illinois, 1906.

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#191 Low angle view of horse-drawn carts and carriages on South Water Street, as seen from Dearborn Street in Chicago, Illinois, 1905

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#192 View of a suburban train, Chicago, Illinois, 1905

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#193 Elevated train accident near Garfield Park, Chicago, Illinois, 1905

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#194 Horse-drawn wagon, Chicago, Illinois, 1905

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#195 Horse-drawn wagon, Chicago, Illinois, 1905

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#196 Chicago Teamsters’ strike, 1905

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#197 1905 Chicago Teamsters’ Strike.

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#198 Street Scene, Chicago, 1905

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#199 SM Stephenson lumber boat passing through Madison Street Bridge, Chicago, Illinois, 1905

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#200 The Binghamton, a freight boat from Buffalo, New York, passing through the Adams Street Bridge, Chicago, Illinois, 1905

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#201 View south on Dearborn Street from Van Buren Street, Chicago, 1905.

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#202 View of the northeast corner of Dearborn Street and Madison Street, Chicago, Illinois, 1905

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#203 View of Union Depot from Jackson Boulevard and Canal Street, Chicago, Illinois, 1905

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#204 View of Union Depot from the Desplaines Bridge, Chicago, Illinois, 1905

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#205 Residences on the West Side, near Jefferson, 12th, and 15th streets, Chicago, Illinois, 1905

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#206 Desplaines Street near Lake Street, the site of the Haymarket affair in 1886, Chicago, Illinois, 1905

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#207 Children sitting in the lap of the William Shakespeare statue, located at the foot of West Belden Avenue in Lincoln Park, in the Lincoln Park community area, Chicago, 1900s

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#208 Shoppers on State Street, with a streetcar approaching curved track and a two-horse team pulling a wagon in the foreground, Chicago, Illinois, 1900s.

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#209 Assistant chief Herman Schuettler sitting at a desk in a room, Chicago, Illinois, 1900s.

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#210 Christmas shoppers crossing an intersection on State Street in the Loop, Chicago, 1900s

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#211 Crowds of Christmas shoppers crossing the street and walking along the sidewalks in downtown, Chicago, Illinois, 1900s.

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#212 Exterior view of Holy Angels Roman Catholic Church at 607 East Oakwood Boulevard in the Grand Boulevard community area, Chicago, Illinois, 1900s.

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#213 Salvation Army distributing turkeys, Salvation Army volunteers unloading Christmas food baskets from a wagon, 1900s.

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#214 A fireman, Bonnel, standing with two white horses, Chicago, Illinois, 1900s.

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#215 Men pouring ice into the top of a train car during the 1904 Stockyards Strike, Chicago, Illinois, 1900s.

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#216 Six firemen standing in front of a fire engine on a train flatcar, 1900s.

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#217 View of Salvation Army food baskets piled up on a stage at Christmas, Chicago, Illinois, 1900s.

A Cracker Jack crate is on the stage with the baskets. A man on the stage is holding one basket and a man in a uniform is standing on the ground reaching up to the man.

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#218 A street covered in snow during a blizzard, Chicago, Illinois, 1900s.

People are walking across the street, some carrying umbrellas, and a horse and cart are standing in the street. Men are shoveling snow near a large mound of snow in the foreground, and the snow in the street is a dark color.

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#219 Fireboat, the Swenie, with three men standing on its decks, docked on the Chicago River in front of an industrial building with boards stacked nearby, Chicago, Illinois, 1900s.

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#220 Railroad yards, Chicago, Illinois, 1905

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#221 Meat cutters wearing checkered overcoats marching in a Labor Day parade in Chicago, Illinois, 1900s.

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#222 View looking west along East 57th Street from South Kimbark Avenue toward the John J Mitchell tower at the University of Chicago in the Hyde Park community area of Chicago, Illinois, 1900s.

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#223 Exterior view of University Hall at Northwestern University, looking down a path leading toward the building, Evanston, Illinois, 1900s.

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#224 Light exposure view of the toboggan slide in Jackson Park, 1900s.

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#225 Women and men sewing at various tables and sewing machines in the workroom of a sweatshop at 132 Maxwell Street in the Near West Side community area, Chicago, Illinois, 1905.

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#226 Exterior view of a synagogue with a group of children and men standing on its porch and on the ground in front, Maywood, Illinois, 1905.

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#227 View of vendors and shoppers on Jefferson Street in the Maxwell Street Market area, Chicago, Illinois, 1905

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#228 Telephones on chairs and on the floor during a bucket shop raid, Chicago, Illinois, 1905

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#229 Children with handicaps assembled in front of a blackboard in a classroom, Chicago, Illinois, 1905.

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#230 Children with handicaps sitting around a table with food in a classroom, Chicago, Illinois, 1905.

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#231 View of ship passing under the Halsted Street Bridge, Chicago, Illinois, 1900

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#232 Girls playing basketball on a grass court surrounded by light colored tents, Chicago, Illinois, 1905.

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#233 Elevated train crossing Wells Street Bridge, Chicago, Illinois, 1905

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#234 Dearborn Street looking north from Congress, Chicago, Illinois, 1905.

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#235 Entrance to train shed at LaSalle Street Station, Chicago, Illinois, 1905

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#236 View of merchants with carts of goods at South Water Street Market, Chicago, Illinois, 1905

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#237 Streetcars exiting the LaSalle Street tunnel from Randolph Street, Chicago, Illinois, 1905

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#238 Exterior view of the Rookery Building, located at 209 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois, 1905.

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#239 Trixie Wrigley standing above a crowd gathered in the street around her, selling tickets to a sporting event, Chicago, Illinois, 1905.

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#240 Marshall Field & Company building, view from across the street intersection, Chicago, Illinois, 1905.

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#241 Exterior of the Chapin & Gore Saloon and Restaurant under the Hotel Newport, Chicago, 1905

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#242 Exterior view of the White Horse Tavern in White City Amusement Park, Chicago, 1905.

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#243 View of Jackson Park road, trees and lagoon,Field Columbian Museum and German building in the far distance, Chicago, Illinois, 1905.

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#244 Horse Drawn Mail Cart Receiving mail at Union Station, Chicago, 1905

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#245 Image of South Side Park scoreboard during a game between Chicago White Sox and the Detroit Tigers, Chicago, 1905.

Two boy score changers are standing on the ledge of the scoreboard. Other teams shown on the scoreboard are St. Louis, New York, Philadelphia, and Boston.

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#246 Policemen escort replacement workers against a strike organized by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) at Montgomery Ward in Chicago, 1905.

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#247 A tugboat at work pulls a larger boat along the Chicago River waterfront, Illinois, 1905

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#248 Chicago Teamsters’ strike, Chicago, Illinois, 1905

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#249 West side of Dearborn Street, south from Washington Street, Chicago, Illinois, 1905

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#250 Masonic Temple, State Street, Chicago, September 11, 1900

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#251 Southwest corner of Canal Street and Madison Street, Chicago, Illinois, 1905.

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