Biographical Note

Lillian May Smith was born on the west side of Chicago, August 22, 1881, the daughter of George D. and Susan A. Smith. She was married April 20, 1902, to Frank R. Campbell. The couple settled in the Austin neighborhood. They had one son, Frank R. Campbell Jr., who served in World War II as a Lieutenant in the United States Coast Guard.

Deeply interested in civic activities, Mrs. Campbell was a member of a number of clubs, including the Austin Woman’s Club, Friends of American Writers, West Side Historical Society, Amelia Earhart Civic Club, Iris Garden Circle, and Miriam Chapter #1 Order of the Eastern Star. In addition, she served as President of five others: Austin Roque Club Auxiliary, 1923; Ladies Auxiliary of Chicago Commandery #19 Knights Templar Auxiliaries of Illinois, 1928-29; Austin Women’s Republican Club, 1933-34; and Cook County Federation of Women’s Clubs, 1939-40. Mrs. Campbell was appointed by Mayor Edward J. Kelly as a honorary member of the Fort Dearborn Memorial Commission. In 1938, she was given the title of Princess Eakinomagaqua ("Woman who tells what to do") by Chief Clearwater of the Chippewa Indian tribe. Presidents of eighteen west side organizations signed a citation presented to her at a testimonial dinner in 1937 sponsored by the Distinguished Civic Service Association of Chicago.

Mrs. Campbell was instrumental in the establishment of the "First Night Fund" at Illinois Masonic Hospital in 1925, which provided a post-operation night nurse for patients unable to pay the costs. She was the impetus which led to the 1937 founding of a rehabilitation home for first-offender women victims of alcohol and drug abuse. She served as secretary to the West Side Women’s Division of the 1934 "Drama of Chicago on Parade."

Of Mrs. Campbell, Cicero Review publisher William Henry Maas wrote, "I always felt that her very entrance into a room was as though another candle had been lighted. . . . With Lillian Campbell, you just naturally felt that life was enriched every time you met her." She died at her home, 5433 W. Ohio Street, following a long illness, on December 11, 1942, and was buried in Rosehill Cemetery.

Frank R. Campbell was born on Chicago’s west side November 7, 1881. He spent a forty-year career with the Chicago Surface Lines, predecessor of the Chicago Transit Authority. Mr. Campbell’s own civic club presidencies totaled twenty-nine separate items; with his wife he was active in the West Side Historical Society. He died at their home in Austin in October, 1946. Although the Campbells were reared Episcopalians, both their funerals were conducted by the Unitarian pastor Preston Bradley.

For further information about the lives of Frank and Lillian Campbell, see the Austin Community Collection—ACC 10:2.

Scope and Content

This collection consists of one initial accession and two supplements.

The Campbell photographs are strongest in two areas. The first is city-wide street scenes, particularly in the neighborhoods of Roseland, South Shore, South Chicago, Woodlawn, Lakeview, Rogers Park, Portage Park, and Logan Square. Of special interest are many pairs of photos showing the same intersection in photos taken twenty or thirty years apart. The second is pictorial documentation of various dedications/openings of trolley and bus lines of the Chicago Surface Lines across the city (gasoline-powered busses being introduced in 1935). Included are:

Line Neighborhood Date
Central Avenue Austin 1930
North Avenue/Austin Blvd. Austin 1931
Higgins Road/Northwest Hgwy. Norwood Park 1935
Madison Street West Garfield Park 1936
Foster/Kimball Streets North Park 1937
Pulaski Rd./31st Street South Lawndale 1937
Ogden Avenue Near West Side 1938
Halsted Street Near West Side 1938

The photos have been individually listed utilizing the subject headings assigned to material in the Neighborhood Research Collections. Cards for all photographs have been filed in the Photograph Catalog via these subject headings. A "shelf list" of the photographs now in the collection follows the Box and Folder Inventory.

The original inventory of photographs is in folder 1:1. Covers of the original Books 2, 3, 4, and 5, and sample pages from Book 2 have been preserved in folders 1:2 and 1:3 as a point of reference. The remainder of the original books has been discarded.

The dates given for this collection 1858 to 1940. While there are pictorial representations of artifacts and scenes prior to that date, 1858 is the date of the earliest actual photograph of a real location in Chicago: a copy of Alexander Hesler’s photographs of the Cook County Courthouse (#207).

Supplement 1 (39 photographs)
This supplement consists of 39 photographs found in box of miscellany after the original collection was cataloged. Why the photographs were separated from the rest of the collection is unclear, nor is it possible to ascertain where and when this happened. None of the photos are from the volumes of Campbell photographs which have been missing for years. A complete list of these photos follows the listing of the initial accession. The photographs have been physically interfiled in number order within the initial collection.

Processed November 1990.

Supplement 2 (168 photographs)
This supplement consists of Book 8 of the Campbell Collection, including photos numbered 684 to 851. While the book was included in the Campbell photographs, it is not a scrapbook-type photo album rather a published view book of images of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. The book is: PHOTOGRAHS OF THE WORLD’S FAIR: AN ELABORATE COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE BUILDINGS, GROUNDS AND EXHIBITS OF THE WORLD’S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION WITH A SPECIAL DESCRIPTION OF THE MIDWAY PLAISANCE (Chicago: The Werenr Company, 1894). The fact that this was an already published entry copyrighted by the Werner Company did not stop the Campbells from putting their stamp on each image and assigning it a Campbell number. This volume was discovered in the process of cataloging Special Collections’ World’s Columbian Exposition materials. It is a duplicate of a book cataloged for that collection. Because the images are hardly unique and because the Campbells could exercise no proprietorship over these images, they are not listed out in this guide. The volume is kept only for the sake of provenance.

Processed February 1991.

Provenance

Frank R. Campbell spent a decade collecting historical and contemporary photographs of Chicago. Following his wife’s death, he presented the collection of 851 photographs to the West Side Historical Society in a ceremony held at the Garfield Park Gold Dome the evening of May 24, 1943. As part of the West Side Historical Society collections, the Lillian M. Campbell Memorial Collection, then housed in eight photos albums, was placed at the Legler Branch of The Chicago Public Library. Over the years, various photos disappeared. When the West Side Historical Society collection was transferred from Legler to the University of Illinois at Chicago Library in 1976, the Campbell Collection was found to contain only Books 2, 3, 4, and 5, and a few scattered photos from Book 1. Today, only 355 of the original 851 images remain. In 1986, the West Side Historical Society collections were returned to The Chicago Public Library to be housed in its Special Collections Department.

The terms of Frank Campbell’s deed of gift to the West Side Historical Society stipulated that should the Society disband, the collection was to be returned to him, or to his son, or be deposited with the Oriental Consistory deeded its claim to the collection to The Chicago Public Library Special Collections in April, 1989. Special Collections gratefully acknowledges the Consistory’s willingness to permit the collection to remain with and be cataloged and serviced by The Chicago Public Library.

Processed by G. Wilson, July 13, 1989.

Access

The Lillian M. Campbell Memorial Collection is available to the public for research in the Special Collections and Preservation Division Reading Room on the 9th floor of the Chicago Public Library’s Harold Washington Library Center, 400 South State Street, Chicago, Illinois, 60605. The collection does not circulate, although photocopy and photoreproduction services are available depending upon the condition of the original materials. First time patrons to Special Collections must present photo identification and complete a Reader Registration Form. Telephone inquiries on this collection and other Special Collections holdings can be directed to 312-747-4875.

Box and Folder Inventory

BOX 1

1. Original inventory; 1941 March 7
2. Newsclippings of collection gift to West Side Hist. Soc.; 1943
3. Covers for Books 2, 3, 4, and 5
4. Sample pages of original mounting (from Book 2)

5. Photographs 1-100
6. Photographs 101-125
7. Photographs 126-150
8. Photographs 151-175
9. Photographs 176-200

BOX 2

1. Photographs 201-225
2. Photographs 226-250
3. Photographs 251-280
4. Photographs 281-315
5. Photographs 316-350

BOX 3

1. Photographs 351-375
2. Photographs 376-400
3. Photographs 401-424
4. Photographs 425-450
5. Photographs 451-473
6. Photographs 474-497

BOX 4

1. Photographs 684-851

Photograph Listing
14 Streets: Halsted Street, south from Madison, 1906
16 Streets: Halsted Street, north from Harrison, 1906
20 Clubs/Orgs.: Hull House courtyard, 1935
30 Streets: 515-518 Maxwell Street, c. 1900
36 Business: Liberty Trust and Savings Bank, Kedzie & 12th, 1912

41 Streets: Ogden and Crawford Avenues, 1900
104 Streets: 79th & Cottage Grove, looking west, 1908
105 Streets: 79th & Cottage Grove, looking southwest, 1909
106 Streets: 79th & Cottage Grove, looking southwest, 1934
107 Streets: 79th & Cottage Grove, looking southwest, 1908

108 Streets: 79th & Cottage Grove, looking west, 1934
109 Business: J. Luyper Meat Market, 1875 (10925 S. Michigan)
110 Business: Victor P. Johnson Signs 1934 (10925 S. Michigan)
111 Streets: Union Avenue, south from 110th Street, [1886]
112 Streets: Michigan Ave. & 111th St., laying railway tracks, 1892

113 Streets: Michigan Ave. & 111th St., laying sewer line, 1900
114 Streets: Michigan Ave. & 111th St., construction (?), 1900
115 Streets: Michigan Ave. & 111th St. corner
116 Streets: Michigan Ave. & 111th St., looking south, 1934
117 Streets: Michigan Ave. & 111th St., looking west, 1905
118 Streets: Michigan Ave. & 111th St., looking west, 1934
119 Streets: Michigan Ave. & 111th St., looking east, 1903
120 Streets: Michigan Ave. & 111th St., looking east, 1934
121 Streets: Michigan Ave. & 111th St., looking north, 1900
123 Streets: Michigan Ave. & 111th St., looking southwest, 1900

124 Streets: Michigan Ave. & 110th St., looking south, 1897
125 Streets: Michigan Ave. & 111th St., looking southeast, 1903
126 Streets: Michigan Ave. & 113th St., looking north, 1890
127 Streets: Michigan Ave. & 113th St., looking onto 113th, 1910
128 Streets: Michigan Ave. & 113th St., looking north, 1934

129 Streets: Michigan Ave. & 115th St., looking east, 1895
130 Streets: Michigan Ave. & 115th St., looking east, 1934
131 Streets: 92nd St. & Commercial Ave., looking north, before 1912
132 Streets: 92nd St. & Commercial Ave., looking north, 1934
133 Streets: 92nd St. & Burley Ave., looking west, before 1912

134 Streets: 92nd St. & Commercial Ave., looking west, 1934
135 Streets: 79th, Stony Island & So. Chicago Ave., looking east, 1915
136 Streets: 79th, Stony Island & So. Chicago Ave., looking east, 1934
137 Streets: 78th and Stony Island, looking north, 1915
138 Streets: 79th, Stony Island & So. Chicago Ave., looking north, 1934

139 Streets: 79th St. & Cornell Ave., looking northeast, 1915
140 Streets: 79th St. & Cornell Ave., looking northeast, 1934
141 Streets: 79th St. & East End Ave., looking north, 1915
142 Streets: 79th St. & East End Ave., looking north, 1915

143 Streets: 79th St. & Ridgeland Ave., looking north, 1915
145 Streets: 79th St. & Crieger Ave., looking north, 1915
146 Streets: 79th St. & Crieger Ave., looking north, 1934
147 Streets: 79th St. & Constance Ave., looking north, 1915
148 Streets: 79th St. & Constance Ave., looking north, 1934
149 Streets: 79th St. & Bennett Ave., looking north, 1915

150 Streets: 79th St. & Bennett Ave., looking north, 1934
151 Streets: 79th St. & Euclid Ave., looking north, 1915
152 Streets: 79th St. & Euclid Ave., looking north, 1934
153 Streets: 79th St. & Jeffrey Ave., northwest corner, 1915
154 Streets: 79th St. & Jeffrey Ave., northwest corner, 1934

155 Streets: 79th St. & Jeffery Ave., looking west, 1915
156 Streets: 79th St. & Jeffrey Ave., looking west, 1934
157 Streets: 77th St. & Jeffrey Ave., looking south, 1915
158 Streets: 77th St. & Jeffrey Ave., looking south, 1934
159 Streets: 77th St. & Euclid Ave., looking south, 1915

160 Streets: 77th St. & Euclid Ave., looking south, 1934
161 Streets: 78th St. & Stony Island Ave., looking east, 1915
162 Streets: 78th St. & Stony Island Ave., looking east, 1934
163 Streets: 77th St. & Stony Island Ave., looking southeast, 1915
164 Streets: 77th St. & Stony Island Ave., looking southeast, 1934

165 Streets: 77th St. & Stony Island Ave., looking south, 1915
166 Streets: 77th St. & Stony Island Ave., looking south, 1934
167 Streets: 67th St. & Stony Island Ave., looking northwest, 1923
168 Streets: 67th St. & Stony Island Ave., looking west, 1934
169 Streets: 63rd St. & Illinois Central Railroad, photo of painting, 1880s

170 Streets: 63rd St. & Illinois Central Railroad, looking east, 1892
171 Streets: 63rd St. & Illinois Central Railroad, looking west, 1892
172 Streets: 63rd St. & Illinois Central Railroad, looking west, 1934
173 Streets: 63rd St. & Cottage Grove Ave., looking south, 1934
174 Streets: 63rd St. & Cottage Grove Ave., looking north, 1934

175 Streets: 67th St. & Cottage Grove Ave., looking north, 1910
176 Streets: 67th St. & Cottage Grove Ave., looking north, 1934
177 Streets: 63rd St. & South Park Ave., looking east, 1892
178 Streets: 63rd St. & South Park Ave., looking east, 1934
179 WCE Chicago Day, World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893 Oct 9

180 Streets: 47th St. & South Parkway, looking east, 1934
181 Transportation: Chicago Surface Lines: 18th St., 1934 (Duplicate of 353)
182 Transportation: Variant view of 181
183 Transportation: Variant view of 181
184 Transportation: Chicago Surface Lines: 23rd St., 1934

185 Transportation: Variant view of 184
186 Transportation: Variant view of 184
187 Transportation: Variant view of 184

188 Streets: 67th St. & Stony Island Ave., aerial view looking north, 1936
189 Parks Douglas Park, seen from across Ogden Avenue, 1936
190 Park Midway Plaisance, from Taft sculpture looking west, 9136
191 Streets: State and Washington, 1893
192 Transportation: Steamship: City of Grand Rapids, Navy Pier, 1940

193 Transportation: Chicago Transit Authority: Clyborn Ave. Subway construction, 1940
194 Transportation: Variant view of 193
195 Transportation: Traffic lights control box, 1940
196 Churches Our Lady of Sorrows Roman Catholic, 1940 (See also 200)
197 Streets: Madison & Hamlin Streets:, 1937

198 Streets: Central Avenue, 700 block north, 1940
199 Transportation: Chicago Surface Lines: Central-Lexington bus, 1936
200 Streets: Kedzie & Jackson, 1940, crowds leaving Church (see 196)
201 Streets: Variant view of 200
202 Histor. Sk.: Treaty of Greenville, 1795

203 Business: Sauganash Tavern, 1833
204 Histor. Sk.: Chicago River & Harbor, c. 1860
205 Histor. Sk.: Map of Chicago incorporated as a town. . .1833, 1933
206 Municipal Agencies: Cook County Courthouse, c. 1840
207 Municipal Agencies: Cook County Courthouse, 1858

208 Municipal Agencies: Cook County Courthouse, 1880s
209 Streets: South Water Street
210 Transportation: Chicago River, 1866
211 Streets: LaSalle Street, south from Randolph, c. 1860s
212 Histor. Sk.: Chicago fire, from a 3-D model

213 Portraits Ogden, William B. (1805-1877), first Mayor of Chicago
214 Portraits Wentworth, John, Mayor of Chicago, 1860
215 Portraits Mason, Roswell B., Mayor of Chicago, 1869
216 Municipal Agencies: Fire engine, 1871
218 Schools Andersonville School, Clark & Foster, 1880

221 Streets: Clark Street & Ridge Avenue, looking east, 1934
222 Streets: Clark Street near Greenleaf Avenue, 1875
223 Residences: Edward Murphy home, Clark & Rogers Ave., built 1833
224 Municipal Agencies: Toll gate, Rogers Ave. & Clark St., 1884
225 Streets: Clark St. at Rogers and Jarvis Avenues, 1934

226 Residences: 4500 block of Broadway, 1900
227 Streets: Broadway & Wilson Avenue, looking south, 1934
228 Streets: Ashland & Belmont Avenues, northeast corner, before 1913
229 Streets: Ashland, Belmont & Lincoln, looking north, 1934
230 Streets: Ashland, Belmont & Lincoln, looking northwest, 1922

231 Streets: Ashland, Belmont & Lincoln, looking northwest, 1934
233 Streets: Ashland, Belmont & Lincoln, looking southeast, 1930
234 Streets: Western & Devon, looking west, 1914
235 Streets: Western & Devon, looking west, 1934
236 Streets: Western & Devon, looking north, 1914

237 Streets: Western & Devon, looking north, 1934
240 Streets: Kedzie & Bryn Mawr, looking south, 1924
241 Streets: Kedzie & Bryn Mawr, looking south, 1934
242 Streets: Logan Square, looking northeast, 1906
243 Streets: Logan Square, looking northwest, 1934

244 Streets: Logan Square, looking west, 1906
245 Streets: Logan Square, looking northwest, 1934
246 Streets: Kedzie & Lawrence, looking north, 1913
247 Streets: Kedzie & Lawrence, looking north, 1934
248 Streets: Kedzie & Lawrence, looking north, 1914

249 Streets: Kedzie & Lawrence, looking west, 1934
251 Streets: Six Corners, aerial view from a kite, 1909
252 Streets: Six Corners (Milwaukee, Irving Park & Cicero), southeast corner, 1912
253 Streets: Six Corners, looking northwest on Milwaukee, 1934
254 Streets: Six Corners, northwest corner, 1912

255 Streets: Six Corners, looking northwest on Milwaukee, 1934
256 Streets: Six Corners, looking northwest on Milwaukee, 1910
257 Residences: James Smith home, Cicero & Irving Park, c. 1880
259 Streets: Milwaukee at Berteau, looking northwest, 1934
260 Business: Dickinson Tavern, c. 1900

261 Streets: Milwaukee, looking southeast from Warner St., 1934
262 Streets: Milwaukee & Hutchinson Avenues, northwest corner, 1902
263 Residences: Milwaukee & Berteau, built 1847 (?)
265 Municipal Agencies: Police. Chicago 36th Precinct, c. 1900
266 Municipal Agencies: Fire Dept.: Protector Jefferson TWP #2 V. F. D., c. 1880s

267 Municipal Agencies: Fire Dept.: Chicago Fire Dept. engine #89, Mayfair Station, c. 1900
268 Municipal Agencies: Fire Dept. Hook & Ladder #23, Jefferson Park, c. 1900
269 Municipal Agencies: Fire Dept. Hook & Ladder #23, Grimm & Lippsa, 1934
270 Municipal Agencies: Turnpike gate, Milwaukee & Fullerton, 1889
271 Streets: Milwaukee & Fullerton, looking southeast, 1934

272 Streets: Milwaukee & Belmont, looking northwest, 1901
273 Streets: Milwaukee & Belmont, looking northwest, 1934
274 Streets: Belmont & Central, looking east, 1924 (?) poss. 1904?
275 Streets: Belmont & Central, looking east, 1934
276 Streets: North & Crawford, looking northeast, 1904

277 Streets: North & Crawford, looking west, 1934
278 Parks Humboldt Park, from corner of California & North Avenue, 1922
280 Streets: Milwaukee & Ashland, looking southeast, 1906
281 Streets: Milwaukee & Ashland, looking northwest, 1934
284 Streets: Madison & Kedzie, looking east, 1912

286 Streets: Madison & Kedzie, southeast corner, 1910
287 Streets: Madison & Kedzie, looking northeast, 1910
288 Municipal Agencies: Jail, village of Central Park, c. 1885
289 Streets: Lake & Keeler, Central Park, c. 1885
294 Streets: Madison & Crawford, northeast corner, 1929

295 Streets: Madison & Crawford, northeast corner, 1934
298 Transportation: Chicago, Harlem, & Batavia Railroad, 1887
299 Clubs/Orgs.: West Side Historical Society: Legler Branch Library, 1934
300 Portraits: Crawford, Peter (1796-1876)
301 Portraits: Kimball, Martin Nelson (1812- )

302 Streets: Harrison & Kedzie, looking east, 1909
303 Streets: Harrison & Kedzie, looking west, 1934
304 Streets: Madison & Western, looking west, 1934

305-312 Transportation: Chicago Surface Lines: Central Avenue Trolley Opening 1930 June 7:
305 Twenty women posed in front of bus
306 Nineteen men posed in front of bus
307 Ten Executives of Chicago Surface Lines in front of bus
308 Mark Fisher & Walter Becker on #76
309 Looking north on Central Avenue, bus #76
310 Nine dignitaries
311 Garfield Park Business: Men’s Club
312 Looking south across Fulton Street

313 Portraits: Edgar, Thomas, Director of Austin Town Hall, 1930
314 Clubs/Orgs.: Austin Federation of Clubs, Inc., at Traction Ordinance meeting, Town Hall, 1930
315 Clubs/Orgs.: View of audience at meeting described in 314

316-326 Transportation: Chicago Surface Lines: North Avenue/Austin Blvd. Trolley Opening, 1931 Nov to 28:
316 Dinner at Austin Methodist Church, speakers’ table
317 View of dinner participants
318 Chicago West Town Chamber of Commerce women
319 Celebration committee
320 Ribbon-cutting: Willis McFeeley, President of Oak Park
321 Close-up of scene in 320
322 MISSING
323 Just after ribbon-cutting
324 MISSING
325 Parade: North Chicago Line car of 1858
326 Parade: Civic leaders in front of 1858 car

329 Transportation: Milwaukee Ave. horse-drawn bus of 1874, c. 1931
331 Transportation: West Division Railway Co., horse-drawn car, Halsted & Randolph, 1886
332 Transportation: West Chicago Street Railroad Co. (?), Madison Street cable train, c. 1890
335 Streets: State Street, downtown, winter 1890
336 Transportation: Chicago Union Traction Co., summer car, 1896

337 Transportation: Chicago Surface Lines: Madison Street Car #4006, 1936
342 Transportation: West Chicago Street Railway car: front
343 Transportation: West Chicago Street Railway car: inside door
344 Transportation: West Chicago Street Railway car: front/side
347 Transportation: Chicago Surface Lines: Clark Street car #22, 1934

348 Transportation: Chicago Surface Lines: Car #7001, 1934
349 Transportation: Hydraulic brake cylinders of Car #7001
350 Transportation: Chicago Surface Lines: Car #4001, Clark & Washington, 1934
351 Transportation: Track brake raising mechanism of car #4001
352 Transportation: Chicago City Rail Way, grip car, 1882
353 Transportation: Car #4001 pulling into 18th Street station, 1934 (Duplicate of LMC 181)

354 Transportation: Pullman Palace Car Co. Dorchester/63rd Street car, front
355 Transportation: Pullman Palace Car Co. Dorchester/63rd Street car, rear
356 Transportation: Variant view of 355
357 Transportation: Driver’s seat and instrument panel of car in 354
358 Transportation: Chicago Surface Lines: Madison Street car #7002, 1936

359 Transportation: Driver in seat of new street car seen in 358
360 Transportation: Cash box of car seen in 358
361 Transportation: Register (fare: $.7) of car seen in 358
362 Transportation: Pullman Palace Car Co. Dorchester/63rd Street car, with four men in front, 1934
363 Transportation: Street car snow sweeper, Milwaukee Avenue (?), 1935

364 Transportation: Chicago Surface Lines: Central-Lexington bus #127, 1935
365 Transportation: Chicago Surface Lines: Archer-Rockwell bus #404
366 Transportation: Variant view of 365
367 Transportation: Variant view of 365
368 Transportation: Variant view of 365

369 Transportation: Chicago Surface Lines: Irving Park Bus extension opening
370 Transportation: North Chicago Street Railroad, car 769, Clybourn Ave., 1886/89
371 Transportation: Pullman Palace Car Co., "Pullman Vestibule," 1897
372 Transportation: Chicago City Railway Co. party car, c. 1895
373 Transportation: Chicago City Railway Co. mail car, c. 1895
374 Transportation: G. C. Kuhlman Car Co. (Cleveland, OH) funeral car, 1870s
375 Transportation: Chicago & Southern Co. "combination car," c. 1900

376 Transportation: Englewood & Chicago storage battery car, c. 1896
377 Transportation: Chicago Union Traction Co. summer car #5977, c. 1900
378 Transportation: Chicago Union Traction Co./Compressed Air Motor Co. cars

379-384 Transportation: Chicago Surface Lines: Higgins Road/Northwest Highway Opening, 1935 to April 20:
379 Float by Norwood Crusaders
380 Austin-Higgins Improvement Group, parade line-up
381 Parade-goers
382 Thomas J. Bowler cutting ribbon, close-up
383 Same, from further way
384 Same, from still further away

385-403 Transportation: Chicago Surface Lines: Madison Street Opening, 1936 Nov 12. [See also 358-361 for other photos of this event.]:
385 Interior of car #7002, lunch being served
386 Springfield Car House. Representatives of Women’s Clubs
387 Springfield Car House. Dignitaries
388 Dinner
389 Parade line-up, Kedzie Depot Yard
390 Ribbon-cutting ceremony
391 Parade: Milwaukee Ave. bus used in 1875
392 Parade: North Chicago Street Railroad used in 1859
393 Inside of car seen in 392
394 Exterior of CSL car #7003
395 Interior of car #7003
396 Young women on car in evening dress
400 Southwest corner of Madison & Austin
401 Celebratory crowd
402 5700 block of W. Madison, decorated for dedication
403 Austin Restaurant/U. S. Barber Shop, 5946/48 W. Madison, displaying "Welcome" banners

407-417 Transportation: Chicago Surface Lines: Foster-Kimball Bus Opening, 1937 June 30
407 Advertisement for celebration beside bus on display
408 Speakers’ platform
409 Ribbon-cutting
410 Ribbon-cutting, close up
411 Crowd milling about
412 Variant view of 411
413 Crowd with signs, "Foster Avenue Feeder Bus"
414 Parade
415 Buses lined up for first ride
416 Bus #529, first official ride
417 Variant view of 416

418-422 Transportation: Chicago Surface Lines: Pulaski Road/31st Street Route Opening, 1937 Aug 8:
418 Mayor Kelly makes speech, Crawford Business: Men’s League
419 Dignitaries at opening
420 Variant of 419
421 Ribbon-cutting
422 Parade

423 Transportation: Chicago Surface Lines: Laramie-Harrison Opening, 1937
424 Transportation: Variant view of 423

425-435 Transportation: Chicago Surface Lines: Ogden Avenue Bus Opening, 1938 Jan 16:
425 Ribbon-cutting at Ogden & Madison. With newspaper clipping
426 Variant of 425. With newspaper clipping
427 Celebrants ready to ride bus
429 Variant of 427
430 Ribbon-cutting at Ogden & Clark
431 Crowd milling about at Ogden & Clark
432 Variant of 431
433 Welcome to buses by Billy Goat Inn (1855 W. Madison)
434 Celebration display in Wiebolts’ window, Monroe St.
435 Ogden-Clark bus (Route 58A)

436 Transportation: San Francisco cable railroad car, 1910
437 Transportation: Chicago Motor Bus Co. coach #112, c. 1925
438 Transportation: North Chicago Street Railroad, car #8, built in 1859
440 Streets: Summerdale and Clark, looking west, 1880
441 Streets: Clark Street, 5200 north block, 1918 January

442 Business: Gengler Brothers (5324 Clark St.), 1904
443 Residences: Nicholas Fritz home, Clark & Catalpa, built 1830
444 Residences: Nicholas Kransz home, Clark & Ridge, built 1853-57
445 Residences: Variant view of 444
446 Residences: Peter P. Kransz home and barn, 5896 Ridge Ave., built 1881

447 Residences: Bernard F. Weber home, Ridge & Thome St., c. 1864
448 Residences: Patrick L. Touhy home, Clark & Sherwin St., built 1871
449 Streets: Christiana Ave. at Balmoral, looking north, 1935
450 Streets: Devon & Western, northwest corner, 1914 (See also 234-237)
451 Streets: Devon & Western, north & east, 1914

452 Streets: Devon & Western, looking east (?), 1914
453 Streets: Devon & Western, looking west, 1914
454 Streets: Ashland, Belmont & Lincoln, looking north on Ashland, 1922
455 Streets: Ashland, Belmont & Lincoln, looking north & northwest, 1930
456 Streets: Ashland, Belmont & Lincoln, northwest corner, Ashland & Lincoln, 1930

457 Streets: Ashland, Belmont & Lincoln, southwest corner, Belmont & Ashland, 1930
458 Streets: Ashland, Belmont & Lincoln, northwest corner, Belmont & Lincoln, 1930
459 Streets: Ashland, Belmont & Lincoln, west on Belmont, before 1930
460 Streets: Ashland, Belmont & Lincoln, southwest corner, Lincoln & Ashland, 1930
461 Streets: Ashland, Belmont & Lincoln, northeast corner, Belmont & Ashland, 1930

462 Streets: Addison & Western, looking southwest, 1935
463 Streets: Milwaukee Ave. & Mautene Ct., looking northwest, 1934
465 Streets: Six Corners: west side of Cicero, south side of Irving Park, 1912
466 Streets: Six Corners: east side of Cicero, south side of Irving Park, 1912
467 Residences: James Smith home, 4702 Irving Park Blvd., 1890

468 Transportation: Chicago City Rail Way Co., cars from 1859 & 1882
469 Transportation: Variant view of 468
470 Streets: Milwaukee & Cicero
471 Streets: W. Madison St., 4000 block, 1921
473 Streets: North and California Avenues, snow removal, 1918

474 Transportation: Conestoga wagon
475 Streets: Michigan Avenue from the Lake, 1865
476 Municipal Agencies: Fire engine of 1835
477 Misc: Civil War Lincoln, Abraham: Bed in which he died, 1865

478-490 Transportation: Ashland Avenue Bridge Opening, 1936 Aug 20 to "Jack Knife Bridge at north branch of the Chicago River":
478 Parade
479 Parade
480 Ribbon-cutting
481 Ribbon-cutting just completed
482-490 Parade: various views

491-495 Transportation: Chicago Surface Lines: Halsted Streets: Bus Opening, 1938 Oct 16:
491 Ribbon-cutting from afar
492 Ribbon-cutting up close. Includes newspaper clipping
493 Parade about to begin
494 Variant of 493
495 Dignitaries gathering

496 Hospitals: Martha Washington Hospital, Irving Pk. & Western, 1933
497 Business: Wrigley Building, 400 N. Michigan, by night, 1936

Supplement 1

4 Streets: State Street, south from Lake, 1934
12 Streets: Madison Street, east from west of Halsted, 1906
13 Streets: Madison Street, east from west of Halsted, 1935
15 Streets: Halsted Street, south from north of Madison, 1935
50 Streets: Hariding Avenue, north from 26th Street, 1934

86 Streets: 79th Street, east from alley west of Ashland, 1934
90 Streets: 63rd Street, east from west of Halsted, 1934
91 Streets: Halsted Street, north from across 63rd Street, 1925
93 Streets: 63rd Street, west from east of Halsted, 1934

98 Streets: Halsted Street, south from north of 79th Street, 1934
99 Streets: Halsted Street, north from south of 79th Street, 1890s
102 Streets: Halsted Street, north from south of 82nd Street, 1935
103 Streets: 79th Street, east across Stony Island and South Chicago Avenue, 1934
217 Streets: N. Clark Street at Dole Ave. and Sherman Place, c. 1984 (World’s Columbian Ferris Wheel in background)
219 Streets: N. Clark Street, north from Foster Avenue, 1935
220 Residences 5947 N. Clark (Nicholas Kransz home)
232 Streets: Lincoln Avenue, southeast from north of Belmont, 1934
261 Streets: Milwaukee Avenue, southeast from [Warner], 1934

279 Streets: North Avenue, east from west of California, 1934
283 Streets: Madison Street, east from west of Western Avenue, 1934
285 Streets: Madison Street, east from west of Kedzie Avenue, 1934
291 Streets: Crawford Avenue, north from south of Madison, 1934

327 Transportation: Chicago Surface Lines: North Avenue car line extension at Narrangansett Avenue, 1931
328 Transportation: Milwaukee Avenue horse-drawn bus, used in 1874
333 Transportation: Blue Island Avenue cable train, 1895
334 Transportation: North Chicago Street Railroad, car #103
339 Transportation: Chicago Surface Lines: Diversey Ave. Trolley bus, 1930

340 Transportation: Chicago Surface Lines: Car #3333, 1935
341 Transportation: West Chicago Street Railway: Car #4, exterior
345 Transportation: West Chicago Street Railway: Car #4, interior
346 Transportation: Chicago City Railway Co., 1898

397 Transportation: Chicago Surface Lines: Madison street opening, 1936, 4100 block of W. Madison
398 Transportation: Variant of 397
399 Transportation: Variant of 397
404 Transportation: Variant of 397

405 Streets: Madison and Kedzie, northwest corner, 1936
406 Streets: Madison and Kedzie, northeast corner, 1936
428 Transportation: Chicago Surface Lines: Ogden Ave. Bus line opening, 1938