Old pictures of Michigan

c. 1905

Grand Trunk car ferry

1950

A steam engine

c. 1908

View of Monroe Street

1924

Ford Motor Company

c. 1915

Traverse City bridge

1908

Family on a Sunday ride on the farm

c. 1902

An early 1900s Packard truck,

1920

Interior of Marble Safety Axe Company (now Marble Arms) Factory

1937

Buckboard Charlie in his shack

c. 1963

Detroit Metro Airport

1956

A Worker and His Family

1901

Departure of the Tashmoo Steamer

1929

Prohibition in Detroit

1970

Elvis gives an autograph to 12-year-old Madonna

1913

Inhalation

1937

John Bastia, a former lumberjack and coal miner

1910

J. J. Angus residence

1900

Belle Isle Zoo

1910

Unknown woman, and Mrs. Berkeley Gillett

1920

Postmortem

1941

Farmers drinking beer during a hard day’s work

1942

High school students strolling through a park

c. 1922

Henry Ford with Model-T car.

1888

Henry Ford 25 years old

1861

Young Thomas Alva Edison, age 14

1905

Miners pose with lunch pails in hand

1892

A pile of American bison skulls

1916

Ernest Hemingway Fishing

1880

The Eaton School

1861

Civil War Era Beauty

c. 1910

Band Boys

1924

West Jefferson looking north just before it turns in to Fifth Street.

1965

Blue Island Avenue

1872

National Normal Musical Institute

1958

14th Street ,Michigan Avenue

1951

An assembly line at Zenith Electronics

1941

Booth in a tavern

1941

Al Capone and his lawyer

1929

St. Valentine’s Day massacre

c. 1901

Halsted Street Vertical Lift Bridge

1964

Coffee break on the job

1917

Maxwell Street Market on the Jewish West Side

1893

John Bull at the Columbian Exposition

1943

Union Station

c. 1900

Rush Medical College lecture auditorium

1926

Maxwell Street

1911

Grant Park, south from Art Institute

1968

Randolph Street

1955

Archer and Halsted

1941

A group of children

1960

Children in Chicago

1905

Market on Maxwell Street

1931

Gangsters Hiding Their Faces during Al Capone's Trial

1890

first electric streetcar

1893

An exhibit hall interior of the World Columbian Exhibit

1907

Street

1941

Young Chicago Residents

1907

Untitled photo of Chicago in 1907

1919

Chicago race riot.

1925

Confiscated liqour at the federal warehouse

1893

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

1934

Photographed with the Body of John Dillinger

c. 1903

Lincoln Monument

1943

Model airplanes

1931

The Queue for Gangster Al Capone's Free Dining Room

1893

Chicago's World Fai

1959

North Shore Line

1930

Waiting for the Hockey Match

1930

The Last Four Couples Who Survived the Chicago Dance Band

1902

Montgomery Ward & Co. building

1931

Unemployed People in Front of Al Capone's Free Cafeteria

1893

The Great Wharf, Moving Sidewalk