PHOTO - CHICAGO - BALBO DRIVE LOOKING W FROM NEAR LAKESHORE DRIVE - UNKNOWN WOMAN AND LITTLE GIRL LOOKING VERY HAPPY AT DRINKING FOUNTAIN - THE FOUNTAIN IS THE TYPE THEN FOUND IN MANY CHICAGO PARKS - CONRAD HILTON HOTEL IN THE DISTANCE - SNAPSHOT - EDITED FROM UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER - EARLY 1950s

POSTCARD - CHICAGO - STATE STREET AND MADISON - BIG CROWDS - HEAVY TRAFFIC - MANDEL BROTHERS DEPARTMENT STORE ON RIGHT - LOOKING N SOMEWHAT ELEVATED - TINTED - NICE VERSION - LATE 1910s

PHOTO - CHICAGO - OLD FEDERAL BUILDING - ELEVATED PANORAMA WITH SURROUNDINGS - LOOKING S W FROM ABOVE ADAMS AND DEARBORN - OPENED IN 1905 - RAZED 1965 - NICE VERSION - 1961

POSTCARD - CHICAGO - ADLER PLANETARIUM - BUILDING FINISHED - GROUND NOT PAVED OR LANDSCAPED - THE PLANETARIUM WAS FUNDED BY MAX ADLER AN EXECUTIVE OF SEARS - IT WAS AMERICA'S FIRST OF A KIND OF INSTITUTION WHICH HAD ALREADY BECOME POPULAR IN GERMANY - OPENED IN 1930

POSTCARD - CHICAGO - LEXINGTON AVE AND 58TH STREET - QUADRANGLE CLUB - 1910s

POSTCARD - CHICAGO - 2193 N SEELEY AVE - HANDSOME LARGE FRAME HOME ON TREE-LINED STREET - 1910s

POSTCARD - CHICAGO - MORSE AVE W NEAR PERRY - ROGERS PARK NEIGHBORHOOD - LARGE HOMES ON TREE-LINED STREET - 1910s

POSTCARD - CHICAGO - DOUBLE-ENTRANCE SIX-FLAT APARTMENT BUILDING - ADDRESS UNKNOWN - INTERESTING HYBRID STYLE - 1910s

BOX - CHICAGO - MARSHALL FIELD DEPARTMENT STORE CHRISTMAS BOX - DIFFERENT EVERY YEAR - HIGH-QUALITY LINED BOXES - YEAR UNKNOWN - THINK MID-1960s

AD - CHICAGO - CARSON PIRIE SCOTT DEPARTMENT STORE - TULA PEIGNOIR SET - THIRD FLOOR - THE AD IS SO CHARACTERISTIC OF THE TIME - 1946

POSTCARD - CHICAGO - CONRAD HILTON HOTEL (ORIGINALLY, THE STEVENS AND THEN THE WORLD'S LARGEST HOTEL) - LAKESIDE GREEN COCKTAIL LOUNGE - 1954

POSTCARD - CHICAGO - STATE AND MADISON TO DEARBORN - BOSTON STORE DEPARTMENT STORE - THREE-QUARTERS ELEVATED VIEW - STREETCARS AND PEOPLE DRAWN IN - TINTED - 1914

POSTCARD - CHICAGO - MARSHALL FIELD STORE - STATE AND WASHINGTON - CORNER VIEW LOOKING DOWN WASHINGTON - THREE-QUARTERS LOOKING NE AERIAL - SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 1902 FINISH OF FIRST HALF OF NEW STORE N END AND 1905 START OF S END FINISHED IN 1906

POSTCARD - CHICAGO - STATE STREET AT WASHINGTON - MARSHALL FIELD'S - SHOPPERS ON STREET - GROUND LEVEL LOOKING NE - BEFORE STONE WASHED NOT LONG AFTER - CITY BEAUTIFUL SERIES - c1964

POSTCARD - CHICAGO - MARSHALL FIELD - THE STORE FOR MEN - A SEPARATE BUILDING AT WASHINGTON (S SIDE) AND WABASH - FIRST FLOOR - OPENED 1914 - TINTED

PHOTO - CHICAGO - PORTION OF SKYLINE SEEN BEHIND RAILROAD FREIGHT CARS - NOTE THE WILDFLOWERS AT BOTTOM - I LIKE THIS PHOTO BECAUSE IT IS SUCH A STRONG REMINDER THAT CHICAGO IS ON THE PRAIRIES - SOMETHING THE BUZZING AND HUMMING AND THICK WILD FLOWERS IN "EMPTY LOTS" (USED AS LOCAL URBAN PLAYGROUNDS) SO STRONGLY IMPRESSED ON CHILDHOOD - 1970s - EDITED FROM AN UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER

PHOTO - CHICAGO - OUTER DRIVE BRIDGE OVER CHICAGO RIVER FROM OUT IN WATER - SOME SKYLINE - NEW STANDARD OIL BUILDING - 1974 - EDITED FROM UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER

PHOTO - CHICAGO - FATHER TIME CLOCK - ON PURE OIL OR LONDON GUARANTEE OR JEWELERS BUILDING - 35 E WACKER DRIVE FACING RIVER - BUILT AND DONATED BY ELGIN WATCH COMPANY OF ILLINOIS WHICH HAD OFFICES HERE WHEN JEWELERS BUILDING OPENED IN 1926 - EDITED FROM UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER

POSTCARD - CHICAGO - MICHIGAN AVE - AERIAL PANORAMA LOOKING S FROM MEDINA ATHLETIC BUILDING N OF RIVER - GIANT URBAN CATHEDRAL - WRIGLEY BUILDING ON RIGHT - PURE OIL BUILDING IN MIDDLE (AKA LONDON GUARANTEE AND JEWELLERS BUILDING) - TRIBUNE TOWER ON LEFT - NICE VERSION - 1920s

POSTCARD - CHICAGO - SVITHIOD SINGING CLUB - LOUNGE INTERIOR - 624 WRIGHTWOOD - 1943

PHOTO - CHICAGO - MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY - REAR FROM ACROSS LAGOON IN JACKSON PARK - LOOKING N - NOTE U-505 GERMAN WW II SUBMARINE ON RIGHT SIDE - 1955 - EDITED FROM AN UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER

POSTCARD - CHICAGO - MUSEUM CAMPUS - SHEDD AQUARIUM (NOTE HOW NEW THE SHEDD LOOKS - IT OPENED IN 1930) - FIELD MUSEUM - AERIAL PANORAMA - GRANT PARK AND SKYLINE BACKGROUND - BLIMP - FOR CENTURY OF PROGRESS WORLD'S FAIR - 1932

POSTCARD - CHICAGO - SHERIDAN ROAD - N FROM IRVING PARK - TREE-LINED WITH APARTMENT BUILDINGS - NOTE LITTLE WAGON PERHAPS FOR HORSE CLEAN-UP - 1910s

POSTCARD - CHICAGO - SHERIDAN ROAD FROM ALEXANDER PLACE - BEAUTIFUL APARTMENT BUILDINGS - TREE-LINED STREET - c1910

POSTCARD - CHICAGO - MINERVA AVE - S FROM WOODLAWN - WOODLAWN PARK CLUB - 1910s

POSTCARD - CHICAGO - MICHIGAN AVE - LOOKING N GROUND LEVEL FROM NEAR ADAMS - ART INSTITUTE LION FEATURED - TINTED - NICE VERSION - c1950

POSTCARD - CHICAGO - MICHIGAN AVE - LOOKING N GROUND LEVEL FROM S END OF GRANT PARK - TINTED - 1925

PHOTO - CHICAGO - OAK STREET BEACH AND BUILDINGS LOOKING S - AERIAL PANORAMA - 1992 - EDITED FROM UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER

PHOTO - CHICAGO - TRADITIONAL FRAME HOME - WOMAN IN FRONT ON SIDEWALK - NAME GIVEN AS CARRIE ANDERSON - LOCATION UNKNOWN - c1920

PHOTO - CHICAGO - CTA PCC STREETCAR - HALSTED LINE - NIGHT - c1950 - EDITED FROM UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER

PHOTO - CHICAGO - TWO WOMEN ON BOAT DRESSED IN DUTCH TRADITIONAL CLOTHES - UNKNOWN WHETHER FROM HOLLAND OR LOCALS CELEBRATING THEIR HERITAGE - FOR ANNUAL VENETIAN LAKEFRONT FESTIVAL - c1970 - EDITED FROM UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER

PHOTO - CHICAGO - LIGHTED BOATS PARADING - ANNUAL VENETIAN NIGHT FESTIVAL - YEAR UNKNOWN - EDITED FROM UNKNOWN PHOTOGRAPHER

POSTCARD - CHICAGO - TWO INSETS - MICHIGAN AVE LOOKING N AND LAKE FRONT DISTRICT (CALLED THAT) - JACK KNIFE BRIDGE (NOT IDENTIFIED) - 1903