Old pictures of Township of Melrose

1916

Ernest Hemingway Fishing

c. 1898

Historic Downtown

1861

Civil War Era Beauty

1924

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

1945

Vintage Downtown

1910

Unknown woman, and Mrs. Berkeley Gillett

1920

Cartier Field in 1920

1942

Cole Brothers Circus

1906

A portrait of the Benfer family.

1909

Summit Street

1894

Frank and Cora Anderson

1905

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

c. 1920

Ford Dealership.

c. 1910

Railroad Depot

1964

Shelves with lost umbrellas

c. 1912

Spitzer Residence

1953

CENTENIAL YEAR

1940

The First Mac Donald's

c. 1952

State Street at Night

c. 1930

A woman uses an antique Maytag washing machine.

1943

Union Station

1941

Young Chicago Residents

1922

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

1951

An assembly line at Zenith Electronics

1929

Lawrence Avenue

1919

Chicago race riot.

1925

Confiscated liqour at the federal warehouse

1929

St. Valentine’s Day massacre

1955

Maria Callas

1905

Chicago American Giants

1905

Market on Maxwell Street

1937

Michigan Avenue ,Monroe Street

1893

Ferris Wheel at the World Columbian Exposition

1965

Blue Island Avenue

c. 1901

Halsted Street Vertical Lift Bridge

1937

Jackson Boulevard ,Market Street ,Wacker Drive

1923

notable Chicagoans associated with the fair met again

1931

Gangsters Hiding Their Faces during Al Capone's Trial

1927

RECREATIONAL BOAT SUNKEN

c. 1900

Rush Medical College lecture auditorium

1907

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