University of Illinois CONTENTdm Collection : Search Results


Search results for 000

	Refine your search
Date 1869 (6) 1906 (4) 1930 (3) 1911 (2) 1916 (2) Show more... Creator Baker, Chicago (3) Burke & Atwell, Ch... (1) Kaufmann & Fabry c... (1) Maas & Manz Chicag... (1) U. & U. (1) Bond-chandler (1) Subject Post Offices (3) Public Libraries (3) Labor Unions (2) Office Buildings (2) Stockyards (2) Show more...

select all : clear all : add to favorites

results 1-20 of 26 item(s)

page 1 of 2 : ( << 1 2 >> ) :: previous : next

	Title:	Subject:	Description:

1.	Stock yards and Packingtown	Stockyards; Meat industry	Caption: "Stock yards and Packingtown in distance[.] Beyond the pens at the stock yards, lies Packingtown, where the slaughtered meats are prepared for the markets of the world. It is here that several...

2.	Post Office	Post offices	Caption: "The Post Office The new Post Office Building, one of the most magnificent postal structures in the United States, is located in a square formed by Adams, Clark and Dearborn streets and Jackson...

3.	Chicago harbor	Harbors	From text: "In 1833 Congress made the first appropriation of $30,000 to improve the harbor. The north pier was run out a short distance and a light-house erected. An embankment was made to cut off the...

4.	University of Chicago	Universities & colleges	From text: "University of Chicago [i]s located within four miles of the Court House, and on the route of the Cottage Grove horse-cars, within a few steps of the shores of Lake Michigan. It is conducted...

5.	Entrance to Stock Yards	Stockyards	Caption: "Entrance to Stock Yards." From text: "No reference to Chicago of a statistical nature, even of the most infinitesimal character, would be complete without passing reference at least to the Union...

6.	Federal Building	Post offices; Government facilities	From text: "The Federal Building, at Clark, Adams, Dearborn, and Jackson, is a massive eight-story structure, in Roman Corinthian style, of granite, surmounted by a majestic dome 297 feet high; it contains...

7.	Public library and John Crerar Library	Public libraries	From text: "The Chicago Public Library occupies one of the handsomest public buildings in the Loop, at Michigan Boulevard, Washington and Randolph Streets. The structure is of Bedford limestone upon a...

8.	West Side Auditorium meeting	Labor unions	Caption: "Meeting of all of Joint Board Delegates, Local Executives and Shop Chairmen. West Side Auditorium, Jan. 13, 1921. Presented to Captains and Lieutenants of the $1,000,000 Lockout Fund Chicago...

9.	Charles A. Comiskey at opening of new park	Baseball fields	Caption: "Comiskey at the opening of his $1,000,000 baseball park in 1910."

10.	James Ryan, Maclay Hoyne and Frank Johnston, Jr.	Lawyers	Caption: "James Ryan (central figure), alias 'Prof. Charles T. Crane' of the clairvoyant trust, cleaned up $60,000 in seven months through detective bureau connivance. At right and left are Hoyne and his...

11.	Art Institute	Galleries & museums; Art education	Caption: "This structure stands on the lake front facing Michigan Avenue, near the foot of Adams Street and was erected in 1893 at a cost of $785,000. It contains a rare collection of paintings, statuary...

12.	Woman's Temple	Office buildings	Caption: "The Woman's Temple, at the corner of Monroe and La Salle streets, stands as a monument to the untiring temperance workers of Chicago. It is twelve stories high and contains three hundred offices....

13.	Wacker Monument in Graceland Cemetery	Cemeteries; Tombs & sepulchral monuments	Caption: "Graceland.--Monument of Frederick and Catharine Wacker." From text: "Before the close of the year 1893 the number of the silent inhabitants of the necropolis Graceland will have reached 60,000....

14.	Chamber of Commerce	Chambers of commerce; Boards of trade	From text: "Chamber of Commerce--Board of Trade Is located on the corner of Washington and LaSalle streets. Its walls are built of Athens marble, and its dimensions are 93 by 181 feet. It is in the modern...

15.	Rush Medical College	Universities & colleges	From text: "Located on the corner of Indiana and North Dearborn street, was established in 1843. The new building, erected in 1857 at a cost of $70,000, is one of the finest educational structures in the...

16.	Chicago Tribune building	Office buildings; Newspapers	From text: "The new Tribune building [i]s, in every respect, a model of beauty, convenience and comfort, and an ornament to the city. It is located on the corner of Madison and Dearborn streets. It fronts...

17.	McVicker's Theatre	Theaters	From text: "McVicker's Theatre is one of the finest structures of the kind in the country. It is situated on Madison street, between State and Dearborn streets. Its cost was over $75,000; and will accommodate...

18.	Safe deposit vaults	Banks; Safe-deposit boxes	From text: "Between these sets of apartments is the great treasure room of the safe deposit vaults--the immense room which is lined with 6,000 private safe deposit boxes of various sizes. The floor of...

19.	Group of revenue assessors	Schools; Municipal officials	Caption: ""A. C. Hesing, Martin Kimbell, Fred H. Rolschausen, H. W. Scoville, Reuben Taylor, George Dunlap, John Forsyth, W. R. H. Gray, J. C. Brown, George H. Anderson, Chester L. Root, Peter Page, C....

20.	Delivery room	Public libraries	From text: "The Delivery Room proper, which extends across the entire width of the building, with a length of 134 and a depth of 48 feet, is divided into three parts by a rotunda in the center, surmounted...

select all : clear all : add to favorites

results 1-20 of 26 item(s)

page 1 of 2 : ( << 1 2 >> ) :: previous : next

^ to top ^