Old pictures of Iowa

c. 1890

Family enjoying dinner

1959

Invention of the modern seat belt

c. 1901

Horse-drawn wagons, including a water wagon

1943

Santa Fe freight about to leave

1943

Union Station

1942

Illinois Central railyard

1893

The Great Wharf, Moving Sidewalk

1872

National Normal Musical Institute

1905

Market on Maxwell Street

c. 1902

Rush St. Bridge

1937

Jackson Boulevard ,Market Street ,Wacker Drive

c. 1930

re-enactment of the St. Valentine’s Day massacre

c. 1903

Lincoln Monument

1919

Chicago race riot.

1893

An exhibit hall interior of the World Columbian Exhibit

1902

Montgomery Ward & Co. building

1907

Untitled photo of Chicago in 1907

1903

Boston Store

1955

Maria Callas

1941

A group of children

c. 1923

Women eating hot dogs

1941

Young Chicago Residents

1922

A woman shows off a cane containing a flask for alcoholic beverages

1924

Soldier Field

1929

St. Valentine’s Day massacre

1926

Maxwell Street

1890

first electric streetcar

c. 1895

The Tugboat Binghampton passes the Adams Street swing bridge

1905

Chicago American Giants

1965

Blue Island Avenue

1929

Lawrence Avenue

1941

The band at the Savoy Ballroom

c. 1901

Halsted Street Vertical Lift Bridge

1945

Brother and sister.

1893

Ferris Wheel at the World Columbian Exposition

1917

Maxwell Street Market on the Jewish West Side

1975

Rabbit strike at the Playboy nightclub

1919

Man on Porch During Race Riot

1955

Aerialist Betty Fox Jumps Rope

1925

Confiscated liqour at the federal warehouse

1934

Garegin Nzhdeh with Yeghishe Hakobyan and Y.G. Hovakimyan in Chicago

1918

Michigan Avenue