Sears Roebuck & Company Mail Order Plant, Merchandise Building, 924 So...
Significance: One of the first buildings completed for the Mail Order Plant in 1905-1906. It was designed by the nationally-known architectural firm of Nimmons & Fellows, with additions designed by successor f... More
Sears Roebuck & Company Mail Order Plant, Merchandise Building, 924 So...
Significance: One of the first buildings completed for the Mail Order Plant in 1905-1906. It was designed by the nationally-known architectural firm of Nimmons & Fellows, with additions designed by successor f... More
Sears Roebuck & Company Mail Order Plant, Merchandise Building, 924 So...
Significance: One of the first buildings completed for the Mail Order Plant in 1905-1906. It was designed by the nationally-known architectural firm of Nimmons & Fellows, with additions designed by successor f... More
Auditorium Building, 430 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, ...
Structure incorporated hydro-pnuematic sewage ejectors, hydraulic rams, moveable stages, "asphaelia" system, isacoustic curve, cyclorama, scagliola, & thunder machines. Significance: The Auditorium Building des... More
Auditorium Building, 430 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, ...
Structure incorporated hydro-pnuematic sewage ejectors, hydraulic rams, moveable stages, "asphaelia" system, isacoustic curve, cyclorama, scagliola, & thunder machines. Significance: The Auditorium Building des... More
Auditorium Building, 430 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, ...
Structure incorporated hydro-pnuematic sewage ejectors, hydraulic rams, moveable stages, "asphaelia" system, isacoustic curve, cyclorama, scagliola, & thunder machines. Significance: The Auditorium Building des... More
Auditorium Building, 430 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, ...
Structure incorporated hydro-pnuematic sewage ejectors, hydraulic rams, moveable stages, "asphaelia" system, isacoustic curve, cyclorama, scagliola, & thunder machines. Significance: The Auditorium Building des... More
Auditorium Building, 430 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, ...
Structure incorporated hydro-pnuematic sewage ejectors, hydraulic rams, moveable stages, "asphaelia" system, isacoustic curve, cyclorama, scagliola, & thunder machines. Significance: The Auditorium Building des... More
Auditorium Building, 430 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, ...
Structure incorporated hydro-pnuematic sewage ejectors, hydraulic rams, moveable stages, "asphaelia" system, isacoustic curve, cyclorama, scagliola, & thunder machines. Significance: The Auditorium Building des... More
Auditorium Building, 430 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, ...
Structure incorporated hydro-pnuematic sewage ejectors, hydraulic rams, moveable stages, "asphaelia" system, isacoustic curve, cyclorama, scagliola, & thunder machines. Significance: The Auditorium Building des... More
Auditorium Building, 430 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, ...
Structure incorporated hydro-pnuematic sewage ejectors, hydraulic rams, moveable stages, "asphaelia" system, isacoustic curve, cyclorama, scagliola, & thunder machines. Significance: The Auditorium Building des... More
Auditorium Building, 430 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, ...
Structure incorporated hydro-pnuematic sewage ejectors, hydraulic rams, moveable stages, "asphaelia" system, isacoustic curve, cyclorama, scagliola, & thunder machines. Significance: The Auditorium Building des... More
Auditorium Building, 430 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, ...
Structure incorporated hydro-pnuematic sewage ejectors, hydraulic rams, moveable stages, "asphaelia" system, isacoustic curve, cyclorama, scagliola, & thunder machines. Significance: The Auditorium Building des... More
Auditorium Building, 430 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, ...
Structure incorporated hydro-pnuematic sewage ejectors, hydraulic rams, moveable stages, "asphaelia" system, isacoustic curve, cyclorama, scagliola, & thunder machines. Significance: The Auditorium Building des... More
Auditorium Building, 430 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, ...
Structure incorporated hydro-pnuematic sewage ejectors, hydraulic rams, moveable stages, "asphaelia" system, isacoustic curve, cyclorama, scagliola, & thunder machines. Significance: The Auditorium Building des... More
Auditorium Building, 430 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, ...
Structure incorporated hydro-pnuematic sewage ejectors, hydraulic rams, moveable stages, "asphaelia" system, isacoustic curve, cyclorama, scagliola, & thunder machines. Significance: The Auditorium Building des... More
Auditorium Building, 430 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, ...
Structure incorporated hydro-pnuematic sewage ejectors, hydraulic rams, moveable stages, "asphaelia" system, isacoustic curve, cyclorama, scagliola, & thunder machines. Significance: The Auditorium Building des... More
Lakeview Pumping Station, Clarendon & Montrose Avenues, Chicago, Cook ...
Significance: The station supplied a large portion of Chicago's water needs throughout the first half of the 20th century. Equipment at the site included 3 Nordberg pumping engines and a Bethlehem Steel Co. pu... More
Lakeview Pumping Station, Clarendon & Montrose Avenues, Chicago, Cook ...
Significance: The station supplied a large portion of Chicago's water needs throughout the first half of the 20th century. Equipment at the site included 3 Nordberg pumping engines and a Bethlehem Steel Co. pu... More
Lakeview Pumping Station, Clarendon & Montrose Avenues, Chicago, Cook ...
Significance: The station supplied a large portion of Chicago's water needs throughout the first half of the 20th century. Equipment at the site included 3 Nordberg pumping engines and a Bethlehem Steel Co. pu... More
Lakeview Pumping Station, Clarendon & Montrose Avenues, Chicago, Cook ...
Significance: The station supplied a large portion of Chicago's water needs throughout the first half of the 20th century. Equipment at the site included 3 Nordberg pumping engines and a Bethlehem Steel Co. pu... More
Lakeview Pumping Station, Clarendon & Montrose Avenues, Chicago, Cook ...
Significance: The station supplied a large portion of Chicago's water needs throughout the first half of the 20th century. Equipment at the site included 3 Nordberg pumping engines and a Bethlehem Steel Co. pu... More
Lakeview Pumping Station, Clarendon & Montrose Avenues, Chicago, Cook ...
Significance: The station supplied a large portion of Chicago's water needs throughout the first half of the 20th century. Equipment at the site included 3 Nordberg pumping engines and a Bethlehem Steel Co. pu... More
Lakeview Pumping Station, Clarendon & Montrose Avenues, Chicago, Cook ...
Significance: The station supplied a large portion of Chicago's water needs throughout the first half of the 20th century. Equipment at the site included 3 Nordberg pumping engines and a Bethlehem Steel Co. pu... More
Lakeview Pumping Station, Clarendon & Montrose Avenues, Chicago, Cook ...
Significance: The station supplied a large portion of Chicago's water needs throughout the first half of the 20th century. Equipment at the site included 3 Nordberg pumping engines and a Bethlehem Steel Co. pu... More
Lakeview Pumping Station, Clarendon & Montrose Avenues, Chicago, Cook ...
Significance: The station supplied a large portion of Chicago's water needs throughout the first half of the 20th century. Equipment at the site included 3 Nordberg pumping engines and a Bethlehem Steel Co. pu... More
Marshall Field River Warehouse, 310 West Polk Street, Chicago, Cook Co...
Significance: The Marshall Field River Warehouse is a unique industrial structure that was designed by an important national architect for a prominent Chicago business. Its significance is derived from its desi... More
Marshall Field River Warehouse, 310 West Polk Street, Chicago, Cook Co...
Significance: The Marshall Field River Warehouse is a unique industrial structure that was designed by an important national architect for a prominent Chicago business. Its significance is derived from its desi... More
Marshall Field River Warehouse, 310 West Polk Street, Chicago, Cook Co...
Significance: The Marshall Field River Warehouse is a unique industrial structure that was designed by an important national architect for a prominent Chicago business. Its significance is derived from its desi... More
Marshall Field River Warehouse, 310 West Polk Street, Chicago, Cook Co...
Significance: The Marshall Field River Warehouse is a unique industrial structure that was designed by an important national architect for a prominent Chicago business. Its significance is derived from its desi... More
Production. Aircraft engines. Two of the nation's millions of war work...
Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Union Elevated Railroad, Union Loop, Wells, Van Buren, Lake Streets & ...
Significance: Significant in the history of American industrial archaeology, the Union Elevated Railroad is also important for its association with financier and traction magnate, Charles T. Yerkes and for its ... More
Union Elevated Railroad, Union Loop, Wells, Van Buren, Lake Streets & ...
Significance: Significant in the history of American industrial archaeology, the Union Elevated Railroad is also important for its association with financier and traction magnate, Charles T. Yerkes and for its ... More
Union Elevated Railroad, Union Loop, Wells, Van Buren, Lake Streets & ...
Significance: Significant in the history of American industrial archaeology, the Union Elevated Railroad is also important for its association with financier and traction magnate, Charles T. Yerkes and for its ... More
Chicago River Bascule Bridges, Spanning Chicago River & its north & so...
Significance: The development of the Chicago trunnion bascule bridge occurred during the first three decades of the twentieth century. Despite the controversy over patent infringement Joseph E. Strauss charg... More
Shreve Building, 100-104 West Lake Street, Chicago, Cook County, IL
Significance: The building is a typical example of commercial architecture in Chicago following the great fire of 1871. Survey number: HABS IL-1031 Building/structure dates: ca. 1873 Initial Construction Bui... More
Chicago Ironwork, 1000 North Dearborn Street (Cast Iron Fence Railing)...
Nitrate negatives. Survey number: HABS IL-155-C Public domain photograph - historical image of Illinois, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Chicago Ironwork, 1149 West Washington Boulevard (Cast Iron Stair Rail...
Nitrate negatives. Survey number: HABS IL-155-V Public domain photograph - historical image of Illinois, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A black and white photo of two men standing next to each other - FSA /...
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
A black and white photo of a baby sleeping on a bed, Sleeping children...
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
Unloading fruit from frieght car. Produce terminal, Chicago, Illinois
Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, office meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
The new and the old in the apartment houses in the Negro section of Ch...
Public domain image of a historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Warehouse at fruit terminal, Chicago, Illinois. Shipments of fruit by ...
Public domain photograph - working class people, the 1930s United States, work, labor, worker, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Mother with her children at home. Chicago, Illinois
Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, meeting, civil rights movement, African Americans, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Commission merchants and their agents at early morning auction at frui...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, office meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Chicago, Illinois. Scene in Negro section
Picryl description: Public domain image of historical building ruins, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Produce market, where commission merchants sell to retailers. Chicago,...
Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, warehouse, depot, train station, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Start of the processional from an Episcopal church on Easter morning. ...
Public domain image of a historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Stockyard workers during lunch hour. Chicago, Illinois
Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Asparagus at produce market. Chicago, Illinois
Public domain photograph of 1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Hogs at stockyards. Chicago, Illinois
Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural farming landscape, agriculture, farm animals, livestock, farmers, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Dwellings in Negro section of Chicago, Illinois
Public domain photographs related to race relations, African Americans, discrimination, segregation, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Stockyard workers during lunch hour. Chicago, Illinois
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
Hogs going into pen at stockyards. Chicago, Illinois
Picryl description: Public domain image of food, dinner, grocery store, eating, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
During the services of the "storefront" Baptist church. Chicago, Illin...
Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
House and children in Negro section of Chicago, Illinois
Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Pastor of the Pentecostal church. Chicago, Illinois
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
The Good Shepherd Community Center. Chicago, Illinois
Public domain image of a historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Meat in cold storage at Davidson Meat Company, suppliers of hotels, re...
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
Photo engraver at Chicago Defender. Chicago, Illinois
Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
In front of the movie theater. Chicago, Illinois
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
Cattle being unloaded at Union Stockyards. Chicago, Illinois
Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural farming landscape, agriculture, farm animals, livestock, farmers, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Girl in picket line. Mid-City Company, South Chicago, Illinois
Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, meeting, civil rights movement, African Americans, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Preparing butter for packaging. Land O'Lakes plant, Chicago, Illinois
Public domain photograph of laboratory, scientist, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Loading crates of fruit onto commission merchants' trucks. Fruit termi...
Public domain photograph of 1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Preparing milk for baby. Family is on relief. Chicago, Illinois
Public domain photograph of America during the Great Depression, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Couple talking at roller skating rink of Savoy Ballroom. Chicago, Illi...
Public domain photograph of the United States military and military-industrial complex before World War Two, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Five p.m. traffic on North Shore Boulevard. Chicago, Illinois
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
Entrance to movie theater. Southside of Chicago, Illinois
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
Counsel for insurance company. Chicago, Illinois
Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, office meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Commission merchants and their agents at early morning auction at frui...
Public domain photograph of the United States in the 1930s, portraits, people, events, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Sound effects man of orchestra at Savoy Ball Room. Chicago, Illinois
Public domain photograph of the United States in the 1930s, portraits, people, events, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
New houses built by Negroes in better residential section. Southside o...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential building, house, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Setting up the pins in Negro bowling alley. Chicago, Illinois
Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Youth at a restaurant night club. Chicago, Illinois
Public domain photograph of the United States in the 1930s, portraits, people, events, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Members of the Pentecostal church praising the Lord. Chicago, Illinois
Public domain photograph of a church interior, gothic architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Double deck storage of carload of onions at terminal. Chicago, Illinoi...
Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
An old black and white photo of a woman hugging a boy - FSA / Office o...
Additional number on contact print that accompanied negative. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1... More
Chicago, Illinois. Provident Hospital. In the laundry
Picryl description: Public domain image of a living room, salon, office, late 19th-century interior, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Chicago, Illinois. Looking toward the north classification yard at an ...
Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Chicago, Illinois. Ida B. Wells Housing Project. Houses
Public domain image of a historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
Women in industry. Tool production. With no previous industrial exper...
Public domain photograph - United States during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
An old black and white photo of a factory. Office of War Information P...
Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information ... More
Chicago, Illinois. Mr. John Sengstacke, part owner and general manager...
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
Chicago, Illinois. In the roundhouse at a yard of the Chicago and Nort...
Public domain photograph of 1930s-1940s industrial development, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Sunday Massachusetts at Saint Elizabeth's Catholic church. All the pas...
Public domain photograph of church building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Chicago, Illinois. Train clerk working on his lists in the hump office...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a bureau, office furniture, desk, chair, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Miss Olive Smith interviewing applicants for x-rays at the x-ray clini...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, office meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Chicago, Illinois. High school students at the monument in honor of Ne...
Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Chicago, Illinois. Unloading truck trailers in the freight house at a ...
Public domain photograph of America during the Great Depression, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Salvage. Scrap for steel mills. A cannon that saw duty in World War I ...
Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Second World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Chicago, Illinois. Newsboy selling the Chicago Defender, a leading Neg...
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
Chicago, Illinois. Ida B. Wells Housing Project. Children lining up to...
Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty during the Great Depression, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Chicago, Illinois. Ida B. Wells Housing Project. Mr. and Mrs. Frank L....
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of the 1930s - 1940s, woman, female portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Oliver Coleman in the waiting room at Musicians' Hall, headquarters of...
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
Bathroom in the Merchant's apartment. Two floors--five rooms including...
Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty during the Great Depression, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Chicago, Illinois. Good Shepherd Community Center. At a recital of a y...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Chicago, Illinois. Ida B. Wells Housing Project. Houses
Public domain photograph of 1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Women in industry. Tool production. Two to a machine, these young emp...
Public domain photograph - United States during World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Mr. William H. Green, owner of radio and electrical store on 47th Stre...
Public domain photograph of pharmacy, convenience store, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description