Old pictures of City of Madison

c. 1930

A woman uses an antique Maytag washing machine.

c. 1952

State Street at Night

1893

Ferris Wheel at the World Columbian Exposition

c. 1900

Rush Medical College lecture auditorium

1893

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

1943

Union Station train concourse

1905

Market on Maxwell Street

1941

Young Chicago Residents

1929

St. Valentine’s Day massacre

1936

Chicago Car Park

1920

DAY BEFORE ALCOHOL PROHIBITION

1890

first electric streetcar

1920

Oscar 'Happy' Felsch

1974

Sears Tower

1925

Confiscated liqour at the federal warehouse

1902

Montgomery Ward & Co. building

1917

Maxwell Street Market on the Jewish West Side

1930

The Last Four Couples Who Survived the Chicago Dance Band

1931

The Queue for Gangster Al Capone's Free Dining Room

1893

The great Krupp building, Columbian Exposition

1918

Michigan Avenue

1919

Chicago race riot.

1919

Man on Porch During Race Riot

1941

A group of children

1975

Rabbit strike at the Playboy nightclub

1964

Coffee break on the job

c. 1903

Lincoln Monument

1905

Chicago American Giants

1955

Maria Callas

1911

Grant Park, south from Art Institute

1893

The Great Wharf, Moving Sidewalk

1929

Lawrence Avenue

1959

North Shore Line

1910

Andrew Carnegie with his wife Louise Whitfield Carnegie and their daughter

1930

Waiting for the Hockey Match

1893

Viking, replica of the Gokstad Viking ship, at the World Fair

1923

notable Chicagoans associated with the fair met again

1927

RECREATIONAL BOAT SUNKEN

1941

Booth in a tavern

1941

Al Capone and his lawyer