Old pictures of Ames

c. 1890

Lew Wallace at his home

1937

Backyard of James Simmons' farmhouse

1938

Waiting for a bus

1851

Andrew Carnegie, age 16, with younger brother Thomas

1911

Grant Park, south from Art Institute

1917

Maxwell Street Market on the Jewish West Side

1930

The Last Four Couples Who Survived the Chicago Dance Band

1893

Chicago Mayor Carter Harrison Sr. delivers a speech to crowd during "American Cities Day"

c. 1900

Rush Medical College lecture auditorium

1905

Childrens bathing beach Lincoln Park

1890

first electric streetcar

c. 1903

Lincoln Monument

1941

Young Chicago Residents

1936

48 cars in a elevator parking garage in Downtown business district, USA. Built by the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company,

1923

notable Chicagoans associated with the fair met again

1903

Boston Store

1925

Confiscated liqour at the federal warehouse

1855

The oldest photo of Chicago

1931

Kitchen opened by Al Capone.

1943

Union Station

1941

Al Capone and his lawyer

1919

Chicago race riot.

1929

St. Valentine’s Day massacre

1893

The great Krupp building, Columbian Exposition

1955

Maria Callas

1937

Chicago Car Park

1919

Man on Porch During Race Riot

1930

Waiting for the Hockey Match

1902

Montgomery Ward & Co. building

1905

Market on Maxwell Street

1931

The Queue for Gangster Al Capone's Free Dining Room

1931

Gangsters Hiding Their Faces during Al Capone's Trial

1926

Maxwell Street

1893

Mammoth and Giant Octopus, display at the Columbian World's Fair

1959

North Shore Line

1893

The Great Wharf, Moving Sidewalk

1964

Coffee break on the job

1944

Maxwell Street vendor

c. 1958

Clark Street Bridge

1951

An assembly line at Zenith Electronics