Chicago Illinois Postcards
Approximately 1890-1940
Lake Shore Drive
• Lake Shore Drive is a Highway that runs parallel
with and alongside the shoreline of Lake
Michigan through Chicago, Illinois. Lake Shore
Drive is designated as part of U.S Highway 41.
• The downtown part originally opened as Leif
Ericson Drive in 1937, named for Norse explorer
Leif Ericson. The roadway was also called Field
Boulevard; it was renamed Lake Shore Drive in
1946.
Lake Michigan
Vintage PC US Lighthouse North
Shore Lake Michigan Chicago
Chicago-Lake Michigan-Mercury
Boat-Vintage Postcard
VINTAGE CHICAGO ILL NEW
OUTER DRIVE BRIDGE LAKE
MICHIGAN POSTCARD
Lincoln Park
1905 Grant Monument, Lincoln
Park
Ulysses S. Grant Monument
• After his capture of Vicksburg in the Civil War,
Grant took command of the entire Union forces,
and helped to end the war in 1865. Grant
became president in 1869, but it is for his
tremendous military actions that he is honored
with this statue which depicts him ready for
battle. It was dedicated in 1891.Ulysses Grant's
statue is located in the heart of Lincoln Park,
whereas Abraham Lincoln's statue is located in
the heart of Grant Park ..
Scene Lincoln Park, Chicago, ILL.
Mailed: 1908, Old Vintage Postcard
Illinois,PC
1905 High Bridge, Lincoln Park
LINCOLN PARK Academy of
Science-1920s
Chicago Academy of Sciences
• Founded in 1857 and chartered in 1865, the
Chicago Academy of Sciences was guided in its
early years by Robert Kennicott and William
Stimpson, close collaborators of an early leader
of the Smithsonian Institution. The academy,
with one of the best natural history collections in
America, built a museum at Wabash and Van
Buren, but its exhibits, collections, and library
were destroyed in the fire of 1871. The academy
rebuilt and lost its building during the economic
turmoil of the 1880s.
1908 Boat House, Lincoln Park,
1907 Postcard, Flower Gardens
Lincoln Park
Cars
PEOPLES GAS BUILDING-1910s
Postcard-Illinois-Vintage Cars
1905 Clark St Looking North from
Lake ST
Chicago Ashland Avenue scenes
1909 and 1911 cars fashions
homes
1912 Chicago, IL - Northern Trust
Co. Bank - Old Cars
Parks
1908 Washington Park
1907 Postcard, Band Stand,
Garfield Park
Band Stand, Garfield Park
•
The Garfield Park Bandstand opened for weekly
concerts in 1897, it drew great attention in part because
of the popular music and bands that played under its
dome but more so for the structure's graceful
appearance and visual symphony of materials and
decoration. The bandstand sits in the southern portion of
Garfield Park and is a large four-sided structure set on a
grand landscaped terrace in the park. The corners of the
structure each have an octagonal "bay" that form an
irregular shaped pedestal from which band members
perform.This platform was designed to seat 100
musicians.
1905 Humboldt Park Stable
VINTAGE B&W PC BOAT HOUSE
HUMBOLDT PARK, CHICAGO
1909
John G Shedd Aquarium, Grant
Park, Chicago VINTAGE 1936
Post Card
Hotels
1923 Hotel La Salle
1928 Lounge & Rest Room,
Morrison Hotel
Buildings
1929 Cameron Elementary School
House Building
1907 Postcard New Court House
COLONIAL THEATRE, CHICAGO,
ILL. VINTAGE c1909 POSTCARD
1933 Chicago Civic Opera House
TRANSIT HOUSE VINTAGE
POSTCARD 1909
Old Majestic Building Chicago
Illinois Vintage Historical Postcard
1911
1905 RPP B&W Plymouth Place