Old pictures of Illinois

1937

Michigan Avenue ,Monroe Street

c. 1895

The Tugboat Binghampton passes the Adams Street swing bridge

1910

United Garment Workers Strike

1920

DAY BEFORE ALCOHOL PROHIBITION

c. 1902

Rush St. Bridge

1943

Union Station

1944

Maxwell Street vendor

1933

Schoenhofen Brewery

c. 1901

Halsted Street Vertical Lift Bridge

1925

Confiscated liqour at the federal warehouse

1918

Michigan Avenue

1942

Illinois Central railyard

1959

North Shore Line

1926

Maxwell Street

1905

Chicago American Giants

1965

Blue Island Avenue

1917

Maxwell Street Market on the Jewish West Side

c. 1903

Lincoln Monument

c. 1958

Clark Street Bridge

1899

ERNEST HEMINGWAY 5 MONTHS

1929

SNOW PLAYING

c. 1900

Rush Medical College lecture auditorium

1938

Waiting for a bus

c. 1900

Wendt Jewelry Store

1900

Jenkins Juvenile Band

c. 1870

PLAYING WITH A MONKEY

c. 1950

A laboratory assistant

1934

John Dillinger

c. 1862

A group of Confederate prisoners

1921

The Mueller Family heading back to Indianapolis

1911

C. J. Walker Manufacturing Company

1941

Police officer Harold Olsen

1900

The first Indianapolis Fall Carnival The first Indianapolis Fall Carnival

1908

Greel's Shoe-shining Parlor

1876

Eli Lilly pharmaceutical

c. 1885

Cyclists

1911

Madam Walker and several friends in her automobile

1910

Central Union Telephone Co. wagon loaded with poles

c. 1890

PAINTOR HOUSE

1854

Clinton Street

1908

Boys working the day shift at Citizens Glass Co.

c. 1909

Open-air summer cars

c. 1930

Law officers.

1973

Nixon and Brezhnev

1940

Children waiting in line for soup

1940

Mississippi

1911

MAIN ST.

1935

The last public execution in the United States

1955

James Dean Playing With His Nephew

1945

Vintage Downtown

1920

Cartier Field in 1920

1942

Cole Brothers Circus

1959

Invention of the modern seat belt

1887

A family in front of their sod house

1938

Southeast Missouri Farms.

1938

Southeast Missouri Farms.

1935

Young girl during the Great Depression.

1940

The Coffee Pot between Austin and Scottsburg

1905

General view of St. John's Church from the northeast

c. 1952

State Street at Night

c. 1930

A woman uses an antique Maytag washing machine.

1905

The Stevens Family

c. 1898

Historic Downtown

1936

Housing under the Wisconsin Avenue viaduct

1945

Discovery of Nazi Gold in a Salt Mine

1921

Borchelt Family