| Dates: | 1830-1933, undated |
| Size: | 11 linear feet in 16 boxes, includes 1058 glass plate slides |
| Repository: | Chicago Public Library, Harold Washington Library Center, Special Collections, 400 S. State St., Chicago, IL 60605 |
| Collection Number: | spe-nhrc-gp-smith |
| Immediate Source of Acquisition: |
The Frank W. Smith Collection came to Special Collections as part of the South Shore Community Collection and slides 1-706 were separated due to their distinct compilation by Smith and their city-wide scope. Eleven supplements of glass plate slides, unrelated to Smith, have been added to the collection. |
| Conditions Governing Access: | Materials are open without restrictions. |
| Conditions Governing Use: | Please consult staff to determine ability to reuse materials from collection. |
| Preferred Citation: | When quoting material from this collection the preferred citation is: Frank W. Smith Glass Plate Slide Collection [Box #, Folder #], Special Collections, Chicago Public Library. |
| Finding Aid Author: | Processed by Galen R. Wilson and Roberta Bell, October 18, 1988. Updated and ingested into ArchivesSpace by Michelle McCoy, 2022 |
Abstract
The glass photographic slides cover a broad spectrum of Chicago history including businesses, churches, clubs, organizations, municipal agencies, parks, residences, schools, street views and transportation, among other historical topics such as the Century of Progress and the World’s Columbian Exposition.
Biographical/Historical
Frank W. Smith was a banker and Chicago history enthusiast, born in Chicago on May 19, 1849, just twelve years after the city incorporated. He began his career working in the family business, Smith Brothers, wholesale grocers on South Water Street. After the company was destroyed in the Chicago Fire of 1871, he turned to banking and was long associated with the Corn Exchange National Bank. Smith married Dora Hadden in 1873. They had three children: Fannie, Osborn and Ethel.
Smith had a strong interest in Chicago history. He accumulated a large collection of glass slides and gave illustrated talks about the city. As described in the publication, Chicago, Its History and Its Builders: A Century of Marvelous Growth (1912), “His lectures have at times constituted the force that has called to life the memories of the earlier settlers, while the younger Chicago has listened spellbound to his stories of the early days.”
Scope and Contents
The glass photographic slides cover a broad spectrum of Chicago history including businesses, churches, clubs, organizations, municipal agencies, parks, residences, schools, street views and transportation. Slides of other historical views such as the Chicago Fire of 1871 and Century of Progress and the World’s Columbian Exposition fairs are often the same as stereographs and prints that are available in other collections.
This collection consists of an initial accession of glass plate slides assembled by Frank W. Smith (Slides 1-706) and eleven supplements. Nearly all of Smith’s slides bear a paper label reading “Frank W. Smith, 5539 Cornell Avenue, Chicago.” Chicago Transparency Company and the A.G. McGregor Company were among the vendors who produced and sold ready-made glass plate slides made from daguerreotypes, cabinet photos and other original photographs on a variety of topics. He may have also prepared some of the slides himself. Smith used his slides for presentations and his set includes identification information along with an introduction and conclusion (Slides 1, 2, and 706).
Mr. Smith used slides he had acquired from other sources, and it is impossible to determine if all slides in the Smith Collection were owned by Smith. Thus, the Smith Collection serves as a growing file of Chicago-history glass plates. Slides numbered after 706 are supplements to the collection.
The dates reflect known or approximate dates of the photographic images that were used to create the glass plate slides. The bulk of the slides are undated.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The Frank W. Smith Collection came to Special Collections as part of the South Shore Community Collection and slides 1-706 were separated due to their distinct compilation by Smith and their city-wide scope.
Eleven supplements of glass plate slides, unrelated to Smith, have been added to the collection.
Supplement 1 includes Glass Plate Slides 707-710. Slides numbered 707, 708, and 709 were received as a gift from Cathy Koves of the Billy Graham Center Museum in Wheaton, Illinois. Slide number 710 is a Frank W. Smith photograph that was found after the original collection was cataloged.
Supplement 2 consists of Glass Plate Slide 711, a portrait photo (negative) of an unidentified couple that was transferred with collections from the West Side Historical Society.
Supplement 3 includes Glass Plate Slides 712-787. The items have a Chicago Public Library label and were transferred internally.
Supplement 4 includes Glass Plate Slides 788-932. These slides may be part of the Albert W. Swayne Collection that were donated to the Library’s Art Department around 1934 where they circulated. According to a 1956 Library annual report, the use of lantern (glass plate) slides declined. As a result, 75 percent of the collection was discarded and the remaining “200” or so slides—principally views of Chicago—were retained for reference use only in the Social Science Division. In 1977, these were transferred to Special Collections.
Supplement 5 includes Glass Plate Slides 933-971. These slides (negatives) depict a variety of personal and business scenes from circa 1900-1920. It is unclear if these scenes take place in Chicago. The slides were donated to Chicago Public Library, Garfield Ridge Branch by Howard M. Ewert in 1983, who found them in a South Side basement during renovation. They were transferred to Special Collections the same year
Supplement 6 includes Glass Plate Slides 972-974 that were given by Mr. P.H. Sloan to the West Side Historical Society. They were added to the collection in April 1989.
Supplement 7 includes Glass Plate Slides 975-986 that were part of a set of 111 glass plate negatives, lantern slides and emulsion negatives in the West Side Historical Society collection. The slides retained in this collection had Chicago city-wide significance and were added to the collection in April 1989.
Supplement 8 includes Glass Plate Slides 987-1044 that were collected by the Historical Society of Woodlawn and were originally cataloged as part of that collection. These slides concern Chicago parks (987-1038), particularly Jackson Park, and Civil War (1039-1044). They were added in May 1989.
Supplement 9 includes Glass Plate Slides 1045-1051 that came from a box of about 400 slides found in Special Collections. Their provenance is unknown. Slides with unidentified scenes or pages from various books of poetry were discarded. The numbers above were added in January 1990.
Supplement 10 includes Glass Plate Slides 1052-1057 that likely originated in the collections of the West Side Historical Society. These were added in February 1990.
Supplement 11 consists of Glass Plate Slide 1058 that was found with additional slides donated by Carl Warachowski in 1992.
Separated Materials
The following items have been removed from the collection:
- Yosemite National Forest. 2 slides sent to Sourisseau Academy, San Jose State University, San Jose, California.
- Winnebago Indians made by the H. H. Bennett Studio. 2 color slides sent to H. H. Bennett Studio, Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin.
- Beach at South Haven, Michigan. 1 slide sent to Grand Rapids Public Library, Michigan
- Slide Room in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
- Four slides manufactured by Thomas Y. McAllister of New York City sent to the Young-McAllister Collection, Manuscript Division, William L. Clements Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
- Nine slides of scenes in Alaska sent to E. E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska.
- Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis, Missouri, 1904. 28 slides sent to Pictorial Collections.
- Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis.
- Supplement 4: The Life of Christ, 58 slides; Hymn texts, 10 slides; America the Beautiful, 16 slides. Sent to the Billy Graham Center Museum, Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois.
Arrangement
The glass plate slides are arranged into 13 series by topic:
- Series 1: Presentation Slides, undated
- Series 2: Biographical Data, circa 1890-1907, undated
- Series 3: Business Establishments, 1830-circa 1930, undated
- Series 4: Religious Institutions, 1857-circa 1900, undated
- Series 5: Clubs and Organizations, 1843-circa 1920, undated
- Series 6: Historical Sketches, 1864-circa 1910, undated
- Series 7: Municipal Agencies, 1847-circa 1930, undated
- Series 8: Parks, circa 1890s-1932, undated
- Series 9: Residences, circa 1870-1912, undated
- Series 10: Schools, 1856-circa 1871, undated
- Series 11: Street Scenes, 1857-circa 1930, undated
- Series 12: Transportation, 1855-circa 1930, undated
- Series 13: World’s Fairs, 1893, 1933
Subject Headings
- Business enterprises -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
- Chicago (Ill.) -- History-- Sources
- Col. Joseph H. Wood's Museum and Art Gallery
- Great Fire, Chicago, Ill., 1871
- Lantern slides – Illinois -- Chicago
- Local transit -- Illinois – Chicago -- History
- Parks -- Illinois – Chicago -- History
- Photographs -- Illinois – Chicago -- History
- Portraits -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History
- Religious institutions -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History
- Schools -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History
- Societies and clubs -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History
- Transportation -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History
- World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Related Collections
- Chicago City-Wide Collection
- Chicago Postcard Collection
- Chicago Park District Records: Photographs
- Knowles Postcard Collection
- South Shore Community Collection
- World’s Columbian Exposition. Glass Plate Lantern Slides
Collection Inventory
Series 1: Presentation Slides, undated
Scope and Contents
Series 1 contains introductory and concluding slides Frank W. Smith used for presentations.
Arrangement
Series 1 is arranged by slide order.
| Box 1 | Glass Plate Slides 1-2 | Introductory slides (2), undated |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 706 | Concluding slide, poem, undated |
Series 2: Biographical Data, circa 1890-1907, undated
Scope and Contents
Series 2 contains images of Chicago residents and families. The slides include portraits of Frank W. Smith’s family members and related families of Jocelyn and Wait. Slides 458 through 491 have multiple portraits per slide (and in many cases biographical sketches) of Chicago citizenry. These have been cataloged under the titles “Famous Chicagoans,” “Old Settlers” and “Chicago Residents.”
Arrangement
Series 2 is arranged alphabetically by last name with unidentified people at the end. The number of images with the same description is indicated in parentheses.
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 252 | Andrews, Tom, undated |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 253 | Andrews, Tom and Zilla, undated |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 254 | Number not used |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 255 | Armour, Philip Danforth and Marshall Field, undated |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 256 | Ballard, Addison, undated |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 257 | Barnard, Alice M. and H.H. Handy, undated |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 885 | Beaubien, Alexander (b.1822), (cracked), undated |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 258 | Benham, F. A., undated |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 259 | Bentley, Cyrus, undated |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 260 | Blodgett, Henry W., undated |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 261 | Bowen, James H., undated |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 262 | Bowers, A. G. [missing], undated |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 263 | Bradwell, James B. [missing], undated |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 264 | Bradwell, James B., undated |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 265 | Bradwell, James Bolesworth (1828-1907) and Bradwell, Myra Colby (1831-1894), undated |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 266 | Braymer, Albert E. Jr., undated |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slides 267-268 | Braymer, F. A. and family (2) , undated |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 269 | Braymer, Mrs. F. A., undated |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 270 | Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878), undated |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 271 | Burrows, Dr. J. H., undated |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 272 | Burtis, James K., undated |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 273 | Buschwak, Mrs., undated |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 274 | Calhoun, William Alvin, undated |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 275 | Catlin, Seth (1812-1863), undated |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 276 | Caton, Judge, undated |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 277 | Chamberlin, Sarah, undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slide 309 | Chase, B. F., undated |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slides 278-279 | Cheever, Benjamin S. and wife (2), undated |
| Box 7 | Glass Plate Slide 457 | “Chicago Celebrities” (24 portraits on slide), undated |
| Box 7 | Glass Plate Slides 458-467 | Chicago Residents, several portraits on each plate (10), undated |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 280 | Clark, John K., undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slide 281 | Clark, Jonathan, undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slide 282 | Clarke, Cy, undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slide 283 | Clarke, Ned, undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slide 284 | Clarke, Robert, undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slide 285 | Cleary House Committee (color), 1907 |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slide 286 | Clissold, Ed, Stella and Roland, undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slide 287 | Clissold, Emma S. (cracked), undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slide 288 | Clissold, H. R., undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slide 289 | Clybourn, A. and wife, undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slide 290 | Cobb, D. B. and McCormick, Cyrus H., undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slide 291 | Curtis, Charles H., undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slides 292-294 | Curtis, DeWitt H. (3), undated |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 886 | Dearborn, Henry, Secretary of War for whom Fort Dearborn was named (1751-1829), color, undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slide 295 | Dike, Julia and husband, undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slide 296 | Drake, John B., undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slides 297-298 | Dunlap, D.C. and Stella (2), undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slides 299-300 | Dunlap, Myrtle (2), undated |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 887 | Dunne, Edward F., Mayor, undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slides 301-302 | Dye, Nathan (2), undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slide 303 | Dymond, Mr., undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slide 304 | Dymond, Edwin, undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slide 305 | Ebert, Albert Ethelbert (1840-1906), undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slide 306 | Ellithorpe, Colonel, undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slide 307 | Evans, Mr. and Hamilton, Mr., undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slide 308 | Everts, Rev. W. W., undated |
| Box 7 | Glass Plate Slides 469-483 | Famous Chicagoans, several portraits on each plate (15), undated |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 255 | Field, Marshall, and P.D. Armour, undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slide 309 | Foote, D.S., undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slide 310 | Forbes, Eliza, undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slide 311 | Forbes, Stephen, undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slide 312 | Foreman, Carrie Clarke, undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slide 313 | Forrest, Joseph K.C. and wife, undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slide 314 | Foster, G.F., undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slide 315 | Fox, Catherine, undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slide 316 | Freer, L.C. Paine, undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slide 317 | Frink, John, undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slide 318 | Fuller, Mr., undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slide 319 | Fuller, O.F., undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slide 320 | Golden, Mr. and Jones, M., undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slide 321 | Goodrich, Lovenda Wait, undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slide 322 | Graves, Henry, undated |
| Box 16 | Photograph 322 | Graves, Henry, copy print of Glass Plate Slide 322, undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slides 232, 235 | Gray, John and wife (2), undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slide 326 | Gray, William P., undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slide 327 | Haines, John C., undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slide 328 | Hamill, K. C. and wife, undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slide 329 | Hamilton, P. D. (1813-1891), undated |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 257 | Handy, H. H. and Alice Barnard, undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slide 330 | Handy, Henry, undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slide 331 | Higgins, Emma Wait, undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slide 332 | Hills, Charles, undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slide 333 | Hills, Cynthia and Hills, Erasmus and wife, undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slide 334 | Hills, Della, undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slides 335-336 | Hills, Erasmus and wife (2), undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slide 337 | Hills, Frank and family, undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slide 338 | Hoard, Samuel S., undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slides 339-341 | Howe, Frederick A. (b.1829) (3), undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slide 342 | Howe, F.H., undated |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 976 | Howland, George, circa 1890 |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slide 343 | Hunt, Charles J., undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slide 344 | Joslyn, A.C. and wife, undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slide 345 | Joslyn, David, undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slide 346 | Joslyn, Kermitt, undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slide 347 | Joslyn, Marcellus, undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slide 348 | Joslyn, May, undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slide 349 | Joslyn, Walter I., undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slide 349a | Joslyn family, undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slide 350 | Joslyn tombstone, undated |
| Box 16 | Photograph 350 | Joslyn tombstone, copy print of Glass Plate Slide 350, undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slide 351 | Keyes, D.H., undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slide 352 | Kinzie, Julia A., undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slide 354 | Kohlsaat, Christian C. (b. 1844) and family, undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 355 | Kohlsaat, C.C. (children), undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 356 | Kohlsaat, E.W. and C.C., undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 357 | Kohlsatt, Herman Henry, undated |
| Box 7 | Glass Plate Slide 468 | Legal celebrities (several portraits on each plate), undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 358 | Lloyd, Louis and Addie Wait, undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 359 | McMillan, J.A., undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 360 | Martin, J.H. and wife, undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 361 | Morton, Axie Wait and husband, undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 362 | Myrick, Mr. and Mrs. William, undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 362 | Oliver, John A., undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 363 | “Old Settlers,” several portraits on each plate, undated |
| Box 7 | Glass Plate Slides 484-491 | “Old Settlers,” several portraits on each plate (8), undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 364 | Osborn, Thomas O., undated |
| Box 16 | Photograph 364 | Osborn, Thomas O., copy print of Glass Plate Slide 364, undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 365 | Pearce, Ashael, undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 366 | Peck, William H. (1853-1905), undated |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 888 | Pinkerton, Allan (1819-1884) (cracked), undated |
| Box 16 | Photograph 888 | Pinkerton, Allan (1819-1884) copy print of Glass Plate Slide 888, undated |
| Box 7 | Glass Plate Slide 492 | “Pioneers of Chicago,” undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 367 | Pollard, John K., undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 368 | Pollard, Mrs. John K., undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 369 | Porter, Eliza Chappel, undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 378 | Pullman, George, undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 370 | Reed, C.M., undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 371 | Reiners, A., undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 372 | Rice, H.H. and Louada Wait, undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 373 | Roberts, Clarke and wife, undated |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 889 | Robinson, Alexander (1762-1872) and Catherine (d. 1860), graves, undated |
| Box 16 | Photograph 889 | Robinson, Alexander (1762-1872) and Catherine (d. 1860), graves, black and white copy print of Glass Plate Slide 889, undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 374 | Robinson, Lucy Wait and husband, undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 375 | Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919), in uniform, undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 376 | Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919), undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 377 | Root, Frank S., undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 378 | Sanger, J. Y. and George Pullman, undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 379 | Sherman, Alson Smith (1811-1898) and Walter, undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 380 | Sherman, Frank, undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 381 | Sherman, U. S., undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slides 382-383 | Slenett, Isadore (2), undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 384 | Smith, A, Judson; Kohlsaat, Fannie Smith, undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 385 | Smith, B., Jr., undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 386 | Smith, E. D. and family, undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slides 387-388 | Smith, Elbert C. (2), undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 389 | Smith, Emily, undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 390 | Smith, Ernest and family, undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 391 | Smith, F.A. and wife, undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 392 | Smith, Frank and sister, undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 393 | Smith, G.V., undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 394 | Smith, Mrs. G.V. Jr., undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 395 | Smith, George, undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 396 | Smith, Guy, undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 397 | Smith, Isabell, undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slides 398-400 | Smith, Israel G. (3), undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 401 | Smith, I. G. “and group,” undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 402 | Smith, James, undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 403 | Smith, Dr. L.H., undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 404 | Smith, Mrs. L.H., undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 405 | Smith, Marcellus B., undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 406 | Smith, Mrs. Marcellus B., undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 407 | Smith, Mary Fay, undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 408 | Smith, Miller J. and family, undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 409 | Smith, Orson Sr., undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 410 | Smith, Percy Hazard, undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 411 | Smith, Peter H., undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 412 | Smith, Theophilus W., undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 413 | Smith, W. Waite and wife, undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slides 414-415 | Smith family (2), undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 416 | Sollitt, John, undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 417 | Spaulding, Jesse, undated |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slides 977-978 | Stehman, John Hess, (1850-1940) (2), undated |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 979 | Stehman, Letta Harding, undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 418 | Stuart, William, undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 419 | Sturgis, James D., undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 420 | Sullivan, Eugene, undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 421 | Surdam, Jones S.J., undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 422 | Swan, James H., undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 423 | Taylor, Ezra, undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 424 | Trowbridge, W.E.D. (cracked), undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 425 | Turner, John W. and wife, undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 426 | Tyler, Elmer and wife, undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 427 | Tyler, Orson, undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 428 | Updike, Peter L., undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 429 | Vernon, David, undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 430 | Von Schnaidau, John C.F.P. (1812-1859), undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 431 | Waite, Ann Waldo (1757-1857), undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 432 | Wait, Archibald, undated |
| Box 7 | Glass Plate Slide 433 | Wait, Archibald, undated |
| Box 7 | Glass Plate Slide 434 | Waite, Benjamin, family tree, undated |
| Box 7 | Glass Plate Slide 435 | Waite, Judge C. B. and wife, undated |
| Box 7 | Glass Plate Slide 436 | Wait, Mrs. Franklin Hovery, undated |
| Box 7 | Glass Plate Slide 437 | Wait, George, undated |
| Box 7 | Glass Plate Slide 438 | Wait, George Jr. and family, undated |
| Box 7 | Glass Plate Slide 439 | Wait, George W. and wife, undated |
| Box 7 | Glass Plate Slide 440 | Wait, Helen, undated |
| Box 7 | Glass Plate Slide 441 | Wait, John M., undated |
| Box 7 | Glass Plate Slide 442 | Wait, Mary (Mrs. W.W.), undated |
| Box 7 | Glass Plate Slide 443 | Wait, Matthew, undated |
| Box 7 | Glass Plate Slide 444 | Wait, W.W., undated |
| Box 7 | Glass Plate Slide 445 | Wait, Wayland W., undated |
| Box 7 | Glass Plate Slide 446 | Wait, Mrs. Wayland W., undated |
| Box 7 | Glass Plate Slide 447 | Walker, Charles, undated |
| Box 7 | Glass Plate Slide 448 | Whilney, Alice Jennings, undated |
| Box 7 | Glass Plate Slide 449 | Whistler, Colonel, undated |
| Box 7 | Glass Plate Slide 450 | Whistler, William, undated |
| Box 7 | Glass Plate Slide 451 | Wilcox, George W. and family, undated |
| Box 7 | Glass Plate Slide 452 | Winana, Susan (b. 1812), undated |
| Box 7 | Glass Plate Slide 453 | Woodworth, James H., undated |
| Box 7 | Glass Plate Slide 454 | Yates, H.H. (b. 1815), undated |
| Box 7 | Glass Plate Slide 455 | Yates, Richard (1818-1873), undated |
| Box 7 | Glass Plate Slide 456 | Youngest bicyclist in Chicago, undated |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slides 250-251 | Unidentified actress (2), undated |
| Box 5 | Glass Plate Slide 353 | Unidentified kitchen scene, undated |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 711 | Unidentified couple, in Edwardian/Victorian attire, posed in studio, circa 1890 |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 890 | Unidentified woman, undated |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 946 | Unidentified child at play in home, undated |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 947 | Unidentified man, undated |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 948 | Unidentified man and child, undated |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 949 | Unidentified woman, outdoors in overcoat and hat, undated |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 950 | Unidentified women, outdoors in overcoats and hats, undated |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 951 | Unidentified woman, in kitchen drying dishes, undated |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 952 | Unidentified woman, standing in living room, undated |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slides 953-954 | Unidentified woman, sitting backwards in chair (2), undated |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 955 | Unidentified women, sitting backwards in chairs, undated |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 956 | Unidentified woman, holding long-stemmed rose, undated |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 957 | Unidentified woman, seated, reading “The Loving Cup,” undated |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 958 | Unidentified woman, standing, wearing [graduation?] robe, undated |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 959 | Unidentified woman, oval portrait, undated |
| Box 15 | Glass Plate Slide 960 | Unidentified women, undated |
| Box 15 | Glass Plate Slide 961 | Unidentified women, undated |
| Box 15 | Glass Plate Slide 962 | Unidentified Thanksgiving dinner in residential home, undated |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 980 | Unidentified group, circa 1900 |
| Box 14 | Glass Plate Slide 981 | Unidentified infant/mother/grandmother, circa 1900 |
| Box 14 | Glass Plate Slide 982 | Unidentified woman, undated |
| Box 14 | Glass Plate Slide 983 | Unidentified woman, “Aunt Lizzie,” undated |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slides 943-962 | Unidentified photographs, undated |
Series 3: Business Establishments, 1830-circa 1930, undated
Arrangement
Series 3 is arranged alphabetically by business name. The number of images with the same description is indicated in parentheses.
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 790 | A. Booth’s Oyster and Fish Depot, Madison and Dearborn Streets, circa 1870 |
| Box 1 | Glass Plate Slide 43 | A. G. Downs & Co., 150 Lake Street, dry goods, certificate, undated |
| Box 1 | Glass Plate Slide 3 | Allen & Mackey, 89 S. Clark Street, curtain goods, advertisement, undated |
| Box 1 | Glass Plate Slides 4-5 | Arcade Building, Clark Street near Madison Street, exterior (2), undated |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 788 | Auditorium Hotel, circa 1900 |
| Box 1 | Glass Plate Slide 6 | Bank of Chicago, Seth Payne currency, undated |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slide 96 | Bank of Chicago, Seth Payne $3 bill, undated |
| Box 16 | Photograph 96 | Bank of Chicago, Seth Payne $3 bill, copy print of Glass Plate Slide 96, undated |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 712 | Bankers’ Building, color, circa 1930 |
| Box 1 | Glass Plate Slide 17 | B. F. Chase Co., 90 Randolph Street, exterior, undated |
| Box 1 | Glass Plate Slide 7 | Bigelow Hotel, exterior, undated |
| Box 1 | Glass Plate Slide 8 | Blackman & Downs, dry goods store, advertisement, undated |
| Box 1 | Glass Plate Slide 9 | Board of Trade, laying cornerstone, 1872 |
| Box 16 | Photograph 9 | Board of Trade, laying cornerstone, copy print of Glass Plate Slide 9, 1872 |
| Box 14 | Glass Plate Slide 1046 | Board of Trade, under construction (cracked), 1872 |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 713 | Board of Trade, Wells and South Water Streets, exterior, illustration, circa 1870 |
| Box 1 | Glass Plate Slide 10 | Bookseller’s Row, undated |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 789 | Booksellers Row, circa 1890 |
| Box 1 | Glass Plate Slide 11 | Bowen Brothers Dry Goods, 19 and 21 Lake Street, advertisement, undated |
| Box 1 | Glass Plate Slides 12-13 | Briggs House, Randolph and Wells Streets, exterior (2), undated |
| Box 14 | Glass Plate Slide 1045 | Bull’s Head [hotel], illustration of circa 1840, undated |
| Box 1 | Glass Plate Slide 14 | Carhart, Lewis & Tappen, hats, caps and furs, exterior, undated |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 714 | Chamber of Commerce, Washington and LaSalle Streets, exterior, illustration, 1872 |
| Box 1 | Glass Plate Slide 18 | Chase, Hanford & Co., oils, exterior, undated |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 791 | Chicago Arena, Erie Street, McClurg Court and Ontario Street (color), circa 1930 |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 792 | Chicago Beach Hotel, undated |
| Box 1 | Glass Plate Slide 19 | Chicago Clearing House Association, checks, 1907 |
| Box 1 | Glass Plate Slide 20 | The Chicago Firemen’s Insurance Company, advertisement, undated |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 715 | Chicago Herald Building, circa 1910 |
| Box 1 | Glass Plate Slide 21 | Chicago Marine & Fire Insurance Company, check, undated |
| Glass Plate Slide 710 | Chicago Mechanics Institute Fair, advertisement for Grand Gala Days, broadside, 1858 | |
| Box 1 | Glass Plate Slide 22 | Chicago Plain & Fancy Job Printing Office, advertisement from 1839 directory, undated |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 716 | Chicago Telephone Company, Washington and Franklin Streets, circa 1890 |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 717 | Chicago Times Building, 1854 |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 718 | Chicago Tribune Building, 1847 |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 719 | Chicago Tribune Tower (color), circa 1935 |
| Box 1 | Glass Plate Slides 23-24 | Chicago Tribune Building, exterior (2), undated |
| Box 1 | Glass Plate Slides 25-29 | City Directory of 1839, pages (5), undated |
| Box 1 | Glass Plate Slide 30 | City Directory of 1854, pages, undated |
| Box 1 | Glass Plate Slide 31 | Clarendon House, N. Clark Street, undated |
| Box 1 | Glass Plate Slide 33 | Cobb’s Building, Dearborn Street near Madison Street, undated |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slides 131-132 | Colonel Wood’s Museum & Gallery of Fine Arts, Randolph Street (2), 1866 |
| Box 1 | Glass Plate Slide 34 | Com. Ex. Nat. Building, Adams and LaSalle Street, undated |
| Box 1 | Glass Plate Slide 36 | Crosby Opera House, certificate for one free steel engraving, undated |
| Box 1 | Glass Plate Slide 35 | Crosby Opera House, exterior, 1865 |
| Box 1 | Glass Plate Slide 39 | Crosby Opera House, exterior, undated |
| Box 1 | Glass Plate Slide 38 | Crosby Opera House, post-Fire ruins (cracked), [1871] |
| Box 1 | Glass Plate Slide 37 | Crosby Opera House, ticket for October 9, 1871 (year of Chicago fire), circa 1871 |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 720 | Daily News Building, 1921 |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 721 | Daily News Building (color), circa 1929 |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 722 | Daily News Building (color), 1929 |
| Box 1 | Glass Plate Slide 40 | Davis, Sawyer & Co., dry goods, exterior, undated |
| Box 1 | Glass Plate Slide 41 | Dickey Building, post-Fire ruins (cracked), [1871] |
| Box 1 | Glass Plate Slide 42 | Dietzsch, Blocki & Co., druggists, exterior, undated |
| Box 1 | Glass Plate Slide 44 | Drake’s Block, exterior, undated |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 723 | Evening Journal Building, 1873 |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 724 | Evening Post Building, circa 1880 |
| Box 1 | Glass Plate Slide 45 | Exchange Bank Building, 1871 |
| Box 1 | Glass Plate Slide 46 | Farwell, John V. & Co., exterior, undated |
| Box 1 | Glass Plate Slide 47 | Field Leiter & Co., post-Fire ruins, [1871] |
| Box 1 | Glass Plate Slide 48 | Field Leiter & Co., exterior, undated |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 725 | Fine Arts Institute, Michigan Avenue and Van Buren Street, undated |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 726 | First National Bank Building, Dearborn and Monroe Streets, circa 1880 |
| Box 1 | Glass Plate Slide 49 | First National Bank, post-Fire ruins (cracked), [1871] |
| Box 1 | Glass Plate Slide 50 | Follansbe, Charles, certificate, undated |
| Box 1 | Glass Plate Slide 51 | Fourth National Bank, exterior, undated |
| Box 1 | Glass Plate Slide 52 | Frank & Walker’s stage office, Lake and Dearborn Streets, exterior, undated |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slide 98 | F. W. Peek & Co. (cracked), undated |
| Box 1 | Glass Plate Slide 53 | Mrs. A. Gale’s New York Millinery, exterior, undated |
| Box 1 | Glass Plate Slide 15 | George B. Carpenter & Co., ship chandlers and sail makers, exterior, undated |
| Box 1 | Glass Plate Slide 16 | George B. Carpenter & Co., South Water Street and 5th Avenue, twines, tents, flags, exterior, undated |
| Box 1 | Glass Plate Slide 54 | Gilbert Hubbard & Co., ship chandlery, exterior, undated |
| Box 14 | Glass Plate Slide 1058 | Girard House tavern, 133rd Street and Indiana Avenue (color), circa 1890 |
| Box 1 | Glass Plate Slide 55 | Globe Theatre/Col. Wood’s Museum Co., post-Fire ruins (cracked), [1871] |
| Box 1 | Glass Plate Slide 56 | Gray, Phelps & Co., wholesale grocers, exterior, undated |
| Box 1 | Glass Plate Slide 57 | Green Tree Tavern, Canal and Lake, exterior (cracked), undated |
| Box 1 | Glass Plate Slide 59 | Hagenbeck’s Trained Animal Show, camel, undated |
| Box 1 | Glass Plate Slide 62 | Hamlin, Hale & Co., exterior, undated |
| Box 1 | Glass Plate Slide 63 | Hatch, David, 98 Lake Street, hardware store, advertisement, undated |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 793 | H. Hayes Saloon, Union Stockyards, cattle drive through streets, color (cracked), undated |
| Box 1 | Glass Plate Slide 64 | Heyworth Building, Madison Street and Wabash Avenue, exterior, undated |
| Box 1 | Glass Plate Slide 65 | Hoffman & Gelpcke, letterhead, 1857 |
| Box 1 | Glass Plate Slide 66 | Hoffman & Gelpcke, staff, undated |
| Box 1 | Glass Plate Slides 67-68 | Honore Block, Dearborn and Monroe Streets, exterior (2), undated |
| Box 1 | Glass Plate Slide 69 | Gilbert Hubbard & Co., ship chandlery, exterior, undated |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 794 | Gilbert Hubbard & Co., 1840 |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 795 | Gilbert Hubbard & Co., 226-232 South Water Street, circa 1890 |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 727 | Illinois Trust & Savings Bank, circa 1900 |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slide 71 | Insurance Building [?], exterior (cracked), undated |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 728 | Inter-Ocean Building, undated |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slide 118 | J & L Turner Livery, advertisement, undated |
| Box 1 | Glass Plate Slide 70 | J. H. Hudson, Clark and Randolph Streets, draper and tailor, 1843 |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slide 72 | Jencks Block, Wells and Washington Streets, post-Fire ruins (cracked), [1871] |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slide 103 | J. H. Reed & Co., 144-146 Lake Street, druggists, exterior, undated |
| Box 16 | Photograph 103 | J. H. Reed & Co., 144-146 Lake Street, druggists, exterior, copy print of Glass Plate Slide 103, undated |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slide 73 | Kendall Brothers Steam Bakery, exterior, undated |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slide 75 | King’s Opera House, advertisement, State and Adams Streets, undated |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slide 76 | Lake Street House, Milwaukee Avenue and Fulton Street, undated |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 796 | Lake House Hotel, circa 1840 |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slide 77 | Larrabee and North, exterior (cracked), undated |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 729 | London Guaranty Building, circa 1930 |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 730 | Lumber Exchange Building, circa 1890 |
| Box 16 | Photograph 730 | Lumber Exchange Building, copy print of Glass Plate Slide 730, circa 1890 |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slide 78 | Lyman, Page & Co., exterior, undated |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slide 79 | McVicker’s Theater, exterior, undated |
| Box 16 | Photograph 79 | McVicker’s Theater, exterior, copy print of Glass Plate Slide 79, undated |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slide 80 | McVicker’s Theatre, Babes in the Wood, play advertisement, undated |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slide 82 | Marine Building, Lake and LaSalle Streets, exterior, undated |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 731 | Marshall Field Wholesale Warehouse, Wells and Quincy Streets, circa 1900 |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slide 83 | Matteson House, Dearborn and Randolph Streets, exterior, undated |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slide 84 | Matthews & Murphy, Dearborn Street, south of Lake Street, exterior, undated |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slide 85 | Mendel Engraving & Lithography, exterior, undated |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 732 | Merchandise Mart, color, circa 1920s |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 733 | Merchants Insurance Building, LaSalle and Washington Streets, circa 1890 |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slide 87 | Merchants Insurance Building, LaSalle and Washington Streets, headquarters General Sheridan, undated |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slide 88 | Merchants Insurance Building, LaSalle and Washington Streets, post-Fire ruins (cracked), 1871 |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slide 86 | Merchants & Planters Bank, certificate, undated |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 734 | Michigan Boulevard Building, color, circa 1920 |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slide 89 | A. H. Miller’s Building, Clark and Randolph Streets, undated |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slide 81 | Monadnock Building, exterior, undated |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 797 | Montgomery Ward, color, circa 1920 |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 735 | Monroe Building/University Club, Michigan Avenue and Monroe (color), circa 1920 |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 933 | Moreno Roller Mills, exterior, undated |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slides 934-935 | Moreno Roller Mills, interior (2), undated |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slide 90 | Moos Cigar Co., exterior, undated |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slide 91 | Morrison Block, undated |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slide 92 | Myrick House Hotel, exterior, undated |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slide 112 | National Union, benefit certificate, undated |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slide 94 | New York Clothing Store, pages from 1839 directory, undated |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 798 | Newberry & Dole Grain Elevator, color, 1830 |
| Box 16 | Photograph 798 | Newberry & Dole Grain Elevator, copy print of Glass Plate Slide 798, 1830 |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slide 95 | North Western Iron & Steel Welding Co., exterior, undated |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slide 97 | Potter Palmer House, State and Quincy Streets, undated |
| Box 16 | Photograph 97 | Potter Palmer House, State and Quincy Streets, copy print of Glass Plate Slide 97, undated |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 799 | Pacific Hotel, circa 1870 |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 800 | Palmer House Hotel, circa 1880 |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 736 | Palmer House, circa 1880 |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 737 | Palmolive Building, 1929 |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slide 99 | Penton & Co., wholesale druggists, exterior, undated |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slide 100 | Perry & Crapo, exterior, undated |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slide 101 | Portland Block, 4th National Bank, exterior, undated |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slide 102 | Pullman Palace Car Company, exterior, undated |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slide 104 | Reiner’s Market, State and 12th Streets, undated |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slide 105 | Revere House, Randolph and Dearborn Streets (cracked), 1857 |
| Box 1 | Glass Plate Slide 58 | S. C. Griggs & Co., State Street, post-Fire ruins (cracked), [1871] |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slide 106 | St. James Hotel, Old Stewart House, State and Washington Streets, undated |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slide 107 | St. James Hotel, State and Washington Streets, post-Fire ruins (cracked), [1871] |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slide 108 | The Saloon Hotel, Clark and Lake Streets, exterior, undated |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 738 | Old “Salon” Building, Clark and Lake Streets, circa 1880 |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slide 109 | Santa Fe Building, rail exchange, exterior, undated |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 801 | Sauganash Hotel, first hostelry in Chicago (color), undated |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 802 | Sauganash Hotel, color, undated |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 803 | Sherman House Hotel, circa 1880 |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slide 110 | Silverman, Lazarus (banker), 50 LaSalle Street, advertisement (cracked), undated |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slide 93 | Smith Brothers, 43 South Water Street, wholesale grocers, advertisement, undated |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slide 111 | Smith & Nixon, Steinway’s pianos, exterior, undated |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slide 113 | Southern Hotel, exterior, undated |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slide 114 | Stebbins & Reede, drugs, 159 Lake Street, advertisement, undated |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 804 | Steinway’s Pianos, Clark and Washington Streets, circa 1850 |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 805 | Stevens Hotel, now Conrad Hilton, color, undated |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 806 | Stock Yards Building, entrance (cracked), undated |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 739 | Straus Building, circa 1920 |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slide 115 | Sturgis, Buckingham & Co., exterior, undated |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 807 | Sunnyside Tavern, Clark Street and Sunnyside Avenue, circa 1900 |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 740 | Tacoma Building, circa 1900 |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 840 | Theatre advertisement, “Boer War,” circa 1905 |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slide 116 | Theatres, advertisements, undated |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 808 | Tremont House Hotel, undated |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slide 117 | Unidentified theatre, advertisement, undated |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slides 119-120 | Unidentified buildings, downtown (2), undated |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slide 121 | Unidentified office, interior, undated |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 936 | Unidentified factory, exterior, undated |
| Box 15 | Glass Plate Slide 937 | Unidentified restaurant, interior, undated |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slide 122 | Union Building, exterior, undated |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slide 123 | Union Ridge [?] Hotel, men holding sign, undated |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 741 | Union Trust Building, undated |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slide 74 | W. D. Kerfoot Block, first in the burnt district, 89 Washington Street, 1871 |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slide 124 | Wabash Avenue “skating rink,” at Jackson Boulevard, undated |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slide 125 | Wabash [?] Avenue, post-Fire ruins, [1871] |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slide 126 | Wadsworth, Philip & Co., exterior, undated |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slide 127 | Walsh, John R., news, periodicals, post office, exterior, undated |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slide 128 | Washington Engine Company, theater ticket, undated |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slide 129 | Wells & Co./Field Benedict & Co., Wabash Avenue and Lake Street, exterior, undated |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slide 130 | Western News Co., 121-123 State Street, exterior, undated |
| Box 1 | Glass Plate Slide 32 | William Clingman Clothing, advertisement, undated |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 742 | Woman’s Temple Building, circa 1920 |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slide 133 | Yonkers Building, exterior, undated |
| Box 1 | Glass Plate Slides 60-61 | Z. M. Hall Building, wholesale grocery, exterior (2), undated |
Series 4: Religious Institutions, 1857-circa 1900, undated
Arrangement
Series 4 is arranged alphabetically by the name of religious institutions with unidentified institutions at the end. The number of images with the same description is indicated in parentheses.
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slide 134 | Centennial Baptist Church, exterior, undated |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 743 | Congregational, Drexel Boulevard, color, undated |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slide 135 | First Baptist Church, exterior, undated |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slide 136 | First Baptist Church, Wabash Avenue and Congress Parkway, exterior, undated |
| Box 2 | Glass Plate Slide 137 | First Baptist Church, Wabash Avenue and Washington Street, exterior, undated |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 744 | First Congregational Church, Washington Street and Ann, circa 1860 |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 745 | First Methodist Episcopal Church, Clark and Washington Streets (cracked), circa 1890 |
| Box 3 | Glass Plate Slide 138 | First Presbyterian Church, Wabash Avenue and Congress Parkway, exterior, undated |
| Box 3 | Glass Plate Slide 139 | First Presbyterian Church, Wabash Avenue and Congress Parkway, exterior (cracked), undated |
| Box 16 | Photograph 139 | First Presbyterian Church, Wabash Avenue and Congress Parkway, exterior, copy print of Glass Plate Slide 139, undated |
| Box 3 | Glass Plate Slide 140 | First Universalist Church, Washington Street between Clark and Dearborn Streets, exterior, undated |
| Box 3 | Glass Plate Slide 141 | First Universalist Church, Wabash Avenue and Van Buren Street, undated |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 746 | Fourth Presbyterian Church, color, undated |
| Box 3 | Glass Plate Slide 142 | Grace Church, Wabash Avenue and Madison Street (cracked), undated |
| Box 3 | Glass Plate Slides 143-144 | Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, LaSalle Street and Chicago Avenue (2), undated |
| Box 3 | Glass Plate Slide 145 | Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, LaSalle Street and Chicago Avenue, post-Fire ruins, [1871] |
| Box 3 | Glass Plate Slide 146 | Holy Name Cathedral, post-Fire ruins, [1871] |
| Box 3 | Glass Plate Slide 147 | New England Church, LaSalle Street, entrance (cracked), undated |
| Box 16 | Photograph 147 | New England Church, LaSalle Street, entrance, copy print of Glass Plate Slide 147, undated |
| Box 3 | Glass Plate Slide 148 | New England Church, post-Fire ruins, [1871] |
| Box 3 | Glass Plate Slide 149 | North Presbyterian Church, post-Fire ruins, [1871] |
| Box 3 | Glass Plate Slide 150 | Plymouth Congregational Church, exterior, undated |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 747 | Roman Catholic Church, Wabash Avenue and Madison Street (built 1843), undated |
| Box 3 | Glass Plate Slide 151 | St. James Church, Huron Street and Cass, 1857 |
| Box 3 | Glass Plate Slide 152 | St. James Church, Huron Street and Cass, undated |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 748 | St. James Episcopal, Cass Street between Michigan Avenue and Illinois Street, undated |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 749 | St. Mary’s Roman Catholic, first Catholic church in Chicago, undated |
| Box 3 | Glass Plate Slide 153 | St. Paul Universalist Church, exterior, undated |
| Box 3 | Glass Plate Slide 154 | St. Paul Universalist Church, Wabash Avenue and Van Buren Street, undated |
| Box 3 | Glass Plate Slide 155 | St. Paul Universalist, Wabash Avenue and Van Buren Street, post-Fire ruins (cracked), [1871] |
| Box 3 | Glass Plate Slide 156 | Second Baptist Church, Monroe and Morgan Street, undated |
| Box 3 | Glass Plate Slides 157-158 | Second Baptist Church, exterior (2), undated |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 750 | Second Baptist Church, Washington and LaSalle Streets, 1858 |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slides 751-752 | Second Presbyterian Church, Wabash Avenue and Washington Street (2), circa 1860 |
| Box 3 | Glass Plate Slide 159 | Second Presbyterian Church, exterior, undated |
| Box 3 | Glass Plate Slides 160 | Second Presbyterian Church, Jackson, exterior, undated |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 753 | Third Presbyterian Church, Washington and Carpenter Streets, color, 1860 |
| Box 3 | Glass Plate Slides 161-162 | Trinity Episcopal Church, Jackson, exterior (2), undated |
| Box 3 | Glass Plate Slide 163 | Trinity Episcopal Church, view from breakwater, undated |
| Box 3 | Glass Plate Slide 164 | Trinity Episcopal Church, post-Fire ruins, [1871] |
| Box 3 | Glass Plate Slide 165 | Trinity Episcopal Church, post-Fire ruins (cracked), [1871] |
| Glass Plate Slide 166 | Not used | |
| Box 3 | Glass Plate Slide 167 | Unity Church, LaSalle Street, exterior |
| Box 3 | Glass Plate Slide 168 | Unity Church, exterior, post-Fire ruins, [1871] |
| Box 3 | Glass Plate Slide 169 | Unity Church, entrance, ruins, post-Fire ruins, [1871] |
| Box 16 | Photograph 169 | Unity Church, entrance, ruins, post-Fire ruins, copy print of Glass Plate Slide 169, [1871] |
| Box 3 | Glass Plate Slide 170 | Wabash Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, Harrison Street, exterior, undated |
| Box 3 | Glass Plate Slides 171-172 | Wabash Ave. Methodist Church, Harrison Street, exterior (2), undated |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 754 | Unity Church, Michigan and 23rd Street, undated |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 755 | Unidentified Church (cracked), circa 1900 |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 938 | Unidentified, baptism scene, undated |
| Box 3 | Glass Plate Slides 173-174 | Unidentified (2), undated |
Series 5: Clubs and Organizations, 1843-circa 1920, undated
Arrangement
Series 5 is arranged alphabetically by club or organization name.
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 758 | Albert Billings Memorial Hospital, University of Chicago, color, undated |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 814 | Chicago Historical Society Building, color (cracked), undated |
| Box 3 | Glass Plate Slide 175 | Firemen’s Association, invitation to 2nd Annual Ball, 1847 |
| Box 3 | Glass Plate Slide 176 | Juvenile Social Ball, invitation, 1843 |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 204 | Magdalena Asylum, post-Fire ruins, [1871] |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 839 | Newberry Library (cracked), undated |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 975 | Political rally, circa 1920 |
| Box 3 | Glass Plate Slide 177 | Republican Headquarters, exterior, undated |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 756 | Republican Headquarters, the Wigwam where Lincoln was nominated, color, undated |
| Box 3 | Glass Plate Slide 178 | Tippecanoe Club, members at Lincoln Park, undated |
Series 6: Historical Sketches, 1864-circa 1910, undated
Arrangement
Series 6 is arranged alphabetically by historical event or site. The number of images with the same description is indicated in parentheses.
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 206 | Chicago Centennial Jubilee 1803-1903, poster (cracked), circa 1903 |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 207 | Chicago Centennial Jubilee 1803-1903, cartoon, circa 1903 |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 830 | Chicago in 1812, map, undated |
| Box 3 | Glass Plate Slide 196 | Chicago in 1820, undated |
| Box 3 | Glass Plate Slide 197 | Chicago in 1830, undated |
| Box 3 | Glass Plate Slide 198 | Chicago in 1830, undated |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 835 | Chicago in 1831, color illustration (cracked), undated |
| Box 3 | Glass Plate Slide 200 | Chicago in 1832, undated |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 819 | Chicago Portage by the French, color illustration, undated |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 211 | Civil War - Abraham Lincoln Medal, North Western Sanitary Fair, 1865 |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 707 | Civil War - Berry and Lincoln store, 1895 |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 215 | Civil War - Camp Douglas (cracked), 1864 |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 842 | Civil War - Libby Prison, color, undated |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slides 212-213 | Civil War - Lincoln home, Springfield, Illinois (2), undated |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 708 | Civil War - Lincoln lying in state in Chicago, undated |
| Box 14 | Glass Plate Slide 1039 | Civil War - Lincoln birthplace, log cabin, color, undated |
| Box 14 | Glass Plate Slide 1040 | Civil War - Lincoln-Douglas, debate monument, undated |
| Box 14 | Glass Plate Slide 1041 | Civil War - Lincoln home, Springfield, Illinois, color, circa 1910 |
| Box 14 | Glass Plate Slide 1042 | Civil War - Lincoln monument, “Lincoln the Orator” (Oakwoods Cemetery), color, undated |
| Box 14 | Glass Plate Slide 1043 | Civil War - Lincoln, Nancy Hanks (1782-1818), grave, color, undated |
| Box 14 | Glass Plate Slide 1044 | Civil War - Lincoln Tomb, Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Illinois, undated |
| Box 15 | Glass Plate Slide 939 | Civil War - unidentified 8-story building, undated |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 214 | Civil War - Voice of the Fair, front page reporting Lincoln’s death, 1865 |
| Box 3 | Glass Plate Slide 202 | The Cottage, undated |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 815 | Father Jacques Marquette’s exploration, color illustration, (cracked), undated |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 816 | Father Jacques Marquette crosses site of Chicago, color [illustration?], undated |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 817 | Father Jacques Marquette’s winter quarters, color illustration, (cracked), undated |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 818 | Franquelin’s Map of Chicago Region in 1864, color, undated |
| Box 16 | Photograph 818 | Franquelin’s Map of Chicago Region in 1864, black and white copy print of Glass Plate Slide 818, undated |
| Box 3 | Glass Plate Slides 185-192 | Fort Dearborn (8, Slides 185 and 187 are cracked), undated |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 836 | Fort Dearborn, centennial tablet, 1903 |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 827 | Fort Dearborn, Christmas Eve, illustration, color, undated |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 824 | Fort Dearborn, first fort, color illustration, undated |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 825 | Fort Dearborn, from the river, color illustration, undated |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 826 | Fort Dearborn, illustration, undated |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 820 | Fort Dearborn, Indian Wigwam (cracked), undated |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 829 | Fort Dearborn, last surviving building in the 1850s, color illustration, undated |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slides 831-832 | Fort Dearborn, massacre of 1812, color illustration (2), undated |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 828 | Fort Dearborn, model, color, undated |
| Box 3 | Glass Plate Slide 193 | Fort Dearborn, poem, undated |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 823 | Fort Dearborn, stockade, color illustration of 1803, undated |
| Box 16 | Photograph 823 | Fort Dearborn, stockade, black and white copy print of Glass Plate Slide 823, undated |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 833.1-833.2 | Fort Dearborn and Lighthouse, illustration of circa 1830 (2 copies with variations), undated |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 821 | Greenville Cession of 1795, shows city limits as of 1852, map, undated |
| Box 3 | Glass Plate Slide 194 | Imaginary view of the site of Chicago in 1779, shows DuSable, undated |
| Box 3 | Glass Plate Slides 179-180 | Joliet, Louis (1645-1700) (2), undated |
| Box 3 | Glass Plate Slide 195 | John Kinzie buys first land at Chicago, undated |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 822 | “Mad Anthony” Wayne secures title to Chicago area in 1795, color illustration, undated |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 757 | Map of Chicago in 1833, color, undated |
| Box 3 | Glass Plate Slides 181-183 | Marquette, Jacques (1637-1675) (3, one copy cracked), undated |
| Box 3 | Glass Plate Slide 184 | Site of Marquette’s Mission, undated |
| Box 3 | Glass Plate Slide 201 | South Water Street, State Street to Dearborn Street in 1834, undated |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 837 | The Treaty Elm, Indian Boundary Line, undated |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 834 | U. S. Reservation, south of Ft. Dearborn, color illustration of 1830, undated |
| Box 3 | Glass Plate Slide 203 | View of the disaster occasioned by the flood in the Chicago River, undated |
| Box 3 | Glass Plate Slide 199 | Wolf’s Point in 1830, undated |
| Box 14 | Glass Plate Slide 1047 | Wolf’s Point showing footbridge across river and blacksmith’s shop, color illustration (cracked), undated |
| Box 14 | Glass Plate Slide 1048 | Wolf’s Point, trappers in canoe, color illustration (cracked), undated |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 787 | World War I, unidentified soldier, circa 1917-1919 |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slides 968-971 | World War I, unidentified soldiers, [See also: Glass Plate Slide 787] (4), circa 1917-1919 |
Series 7: Municipal Agencies, 1847-circa 1930, undated
Arrangement
Series 7 is arranged alphabetically by business name. The number of images with the same description is indicated in parentheses.
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 216 | Billiards & Pool Store, election polling place, 1909 |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 217 | Chamber of Commerce, exterior, undated |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 843 | Chicago Public Schools, Bureau of Visual Instruction poster, color, undated |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 844 | Chicago symbol, “I Will” [cracked], undated |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 845 | Chicago symbol, “I Will,” undated |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 760 | Chinatown City Hall, color, circa 1930 |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 218 | City Hall, (Water Tank surrounded by building) [cracked] |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 846 | Coliseum, old exposition building at Lake front, color illustration, undated |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 847 | Coliseum, old building, undated |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 848 | Coliseum, old building, view from lake, undated |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 849 | Coliseum, new building, undated |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 219 | Committee of Safety, 1861 |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 759 | Cook County Hospital, old building, undated |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 220 | Courthouse, LaSalle Street exterior, undated |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 221 | Courthouse, 1st courthouse, Clark and Randolph Streets, 1892 |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slides 222-223 | Courthouse (2), undated |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 224 | Courthouse, post-Fire ruins, [1871] |
| Box 16 | Photograph 224 | Courthouse, post-Fire ruins, copy print of Glass Plate Slide 224, [1871] |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 761 | Courthouse, 1st courthouse, color, undated |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 762 | Courthouse, 2nd courthouse, color, circa 1860 |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 763 | Court House, circa 1860 |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slides 764-765 | Court House and City Hall, (2, 4th home of the Chicago Public Library), circa 1880 |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 766 | Court House and City Hall, color, 1888 |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 225 | Defense Committee, 1867 |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 769 | Federal Building, circa 1900 |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 226 | Fire Department, No. 9, men and engine, undated |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 227 | Fire Department, badge, “303 C.E. Allen,” undated |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 228 | Fireman’s Association, invitation to 2nd Annual Ball, 1847 |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 940 | Fire Department, boat on water, undated |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 229 | Fire truck, Lake and State, undated |
| Box 16 | Photograph 229 | Fire truck, Lake and State, copy print of Glass Plate Slide 229, undated |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 850 | Navy Pier, color, circa 1930 |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 230 | Post Office, exterior (cracked), undated |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 231 | Post Office, Monroe and Dearborn Streets, undated |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 232 | Post Office, undated |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 851 | Post Office in 1833, color illustration, undated |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 767 | Post Office and Customs House, 1863 |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 768 | Post Office and Customs House, 1872 [?] |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 770 | Seal of Chicago, color, undated |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 709 | State House at Vandalia, Illinois, undated |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 771 | Water Tower, color, undated |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 772 | Water Tower, color, circa 1900 |
Series 8: Parks, circa 1890s-1932, undated
Arrangement
Series 8 is arranged alphabetically by park name. The number of images with the same description is indicated in parentheses.
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 773 | Art Institute of Chicago, lion statue [?], undated |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 233 | Central Park, boating, undated |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 234 | Douglas Park, undated |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 852 | Douglas Park, Karel Havlicek monument by Strachovsky, color, undated |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 774 | Field Museum of Natural History, color, 1932 |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 853 | Fort Dearborn, massacre monument, color, undated |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 854 | Fort Dearborn, relief tablet, Michigan Avenue Bridge, color, undated |
| Box 14 | Glass Plate Slide 987 | Fort Dearborn, massacre monument, circa 1920 |
| Box 14 | Glass Plate Slide 1038 | Garfield Park, “Lincoln the Railsplitter,” color, undated |
| Box 14 | Glass Plate Slide 988 | Grant Park, Buckingham fountain by night, color, undated |
| Box 14 | Glass Plate Slide 989 | Grant Park, Lincoln monument “Seated Lincoln,” undated |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 775 | Grant Park, Buckingham fountain (color), circa 1930 |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 855 | Grant Park, “Indian Bowman” by Ivan Mestrovic, undated |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 856 | Grant Park, Abraham Lincoln monument by Augustus St. Gaudens, color, undated |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 857 | Grant Park, John A. Logan monument by Augustus St. Gaudens, undated |
| Box 14 | Glass Plate Slide 1054 | Grant Park, John A. Logan monument by Augustus St. Gaudens, undated |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 858 | Humboldt Park, Lief Erickson monument by Sigvald Asbjornsen, undated |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 859 | Humboldt Park, Alexander von Humboldt monument by Felix Gorling, undated |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 860 | Humboldt Park, Fritz Reuter monument by Franz Engleman, color, undated |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 861 | Jackson Park, “The Republic” by French [missing], undated |
| Box 14 | Glass Plate Slide 990 | Jackson Park, bridge, color, undated |
| Box 14 | Glass Plate Slides 991-992 | Jackson Park, bridge (2), undated |
| Box 14 | Slide 993 | Jackson Park, bridge (color), undated |
| Box 14 | Glass Plate Slides 994-998 | Jackson Park, flowers (color, 5), undated |
| Box 14 | Glass Plate Slides 999-1003 | Jackson Park, footbridge over lagoon (color, 5), undated |
| Box 14 | Glass Plate Slides 1004-1005 | Jackson Park, footbridge over lagoon (2), undated |
| Box 14 | Glass Plate Slide 1006 | Jackson Park, footbridge over lagoon (color), undated |
| Box 14 | Glass Plate Slides 1007-1008 | Jackson Park, pagoda, color (2), undated |
| Box 14 | Glass Plate Slides 1009-1010 | Jackson Park, inside conservatory, color (Slide 1010 is cracked), undated |
| Box 14 | Glass Plate Slides 1011-1021 | Jackson Park, color (11), undated |
| Box 14 | Glass Plate Slides 1022-1023 | Jackson Park (2), undated |
| Box 14 | Glass Plate Slides 1024-1025 | Jackson Park, color (2), undated |
| Box 14 | Glass Plate Slide 1026 | Jackson Park, tree, undated |
| Box 14 | Glass Plate Slides 1027-1031 | Jackson Park, winter, color (5), undated |
| Box 14 | Glass Plate Slide 1032 | Jackson Park, winter, undated |
| Box 14 | Glass Plate Slide 1033 | Jackson Park, winter, color, undated |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 235 | Jefferson Park, undated |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 862 | Lake front, Michigan Avenue (military review), color illustration, undated |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 863 | Lincoln Park, “The Alarm” by John Boyle, color, undated |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 864 | Lincoln Park, Hans Christian Andersen monument by Johannes Gelert, color (cracked) undated |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 865 | Lincoln Park, Beethoven monument by Johannes Gelert, undated |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 866 | Lincoln Park, Benjamin Franklin monument by Richard Parks, color, undated |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 867 | Lincoln Park, Goethe monument by Herman Hahn, color, undated |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 868 | Lincoln Park, David Kennison boulder, color, undated |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 869 | Lincoln Park, LaSalle monument by La Laing, color, undated |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 870 | Lincoln Park, Abraham Lincoln monument by Augustus St. Gaudens, undated |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 871 | Lincoln Park, Emancipation statue, Lincoln freeing the slaves, color, undated |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 872 | Lincoln Park, Linne monument by C. Dyperman, color, undated |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 873 | Lincoln Park, “The Alarm” Ottawa monument (cracked), undated |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 874 | Lincoln Park, Schiller monument by Ernest Raus, color, undated |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 875 | Lincoln Park, Shakespeare monument by William O. Partridge, color, undated |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 876 | Lincoln Park, “The Signal of Peace” by Dallin, color, undated |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 877 | Lincoln Park, Totem pole, color, undated |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 236 | Lincoln Park, Shakespeare monument, undated |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slides 237-238 | Lincoln Park (2), undated |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 239 | Lincoln Park, “The Signal” statue, undated |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 240 | Lincoln Park, LaSalle monument, undated |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 241 | Lincoln Park, Lincoln monument, undated |
| Box 14 | Glass Plate Slide 1034 | Lincoln Park, Lincoln monument, undated |
| Box 14 | Glass Plate Slides 1052-1053 | Lincoln Park, Ulysses S. Grant monument (2), undated |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 878 | Marquette and Joliet Memorial, Robey Street, color, undated |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 879 | Midway, “Fountain of Time” by Lorado Taft, color, undated |
| Box 14 | Glass Plate Slide 1035 | Midway Plaisance, Goode-Cheney memorial, color, undated |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slides 242-243 | Museum of Science and Industry (2), undated |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 880 | Oak Street Beach |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 244 | “Old School House Bench” |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 245 | Pullman Monument, Fort Dearborn Massacre |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slides 246-247 | Riverside Park (2), undated |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 776 | Shedd Aquarium, color), 1932 |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 777 | Shedd Aquarium, color, undated |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 881 | Philip Sheridan monument by Borglum, Sheridan Road at Belmont Avenue, undated |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 882 | Soldier Field Stadium, undated |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 248 | Union Park, undated |
| Box 16 | Photograph 248 | Union Park, copy print of Glass Plate Slide 248, undated |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 249 | Unidentified park, dogs, undated |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 941 | Unidentified park, picnic group, undated |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 942 | Unidentified park, swamp scene, undated |
| Box 15 | Glass Plate Slide 943 | Unidentified park, undated |
| Box 15 | Glass Plate Slides 944-945 | Unidentified park, river (2), undated |
| Box 15 | Glass Plate Slide 1055 | Unidentified park, people strolling, circa 1890s |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 883 | Victory Negro Memorial by Leonard Crunelle, S. Parkway at 35th Street (cracked), undated |
| Box 14 | Glass Plate Slide 1036 | Washington Park, “Fountain of Time” by Laredo Taft, color, undated |
| Box 14 | Glass Plate Slide 1037 | Washington Park, “Fountain of Time” by Laredo Taft, undated |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 884 | George Washington monument, South Parkway at 51st Street, color, undated |
Series 9: Residences, circa 1870-1912, undated
Arrangement
Series 9 is arranged alphabetically by family name of the residence or street name and address with unidentified residences at the end. The number of images with the same description is indicated in parentheses.
| Box 8 | Glass Plate Slide 563 | 122-124 Ashland Avenue, undated |
| Box 14 | Glass Plate Slide 1050 | North Clark Street at Indian Boundary, Rogers Park, toll house (cracked), circa 1900 |
| Box 8 | Glass Plate Slide 564 | Clybourne Mansion, undated |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 892 | Clybourne Mansion, first brick house built in Chicago, undated |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 778 | Samuel B. Chase home, Belmont Avenue, circa 1900 |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 893 | DeSable Home, memorial tablet, color, 1912 |
| Box 8 | Glass Plate Slide 565 | Early Chicago home [?], undated |
| Box 8 | Glass Plate Slide 566 | Egan, home and garden, 1863 |
| Box 8 | Glass Plate Slide 567 | Dr. Foster’s home, “last house burned,” post-Fire ruins (cracked), [1871] |
| Box 8 | Glass Plate Slide 568 | Honore home, Adams Street and Michigan Avenue, undated |
| Box 8 | Glass Plate Slide 569 | Honore home, Adams Street and Michigan Avenues, post-Fire ruins, [1871] |
| Box 8 | Glass Plate Slide 570 | Joslyn home, Elgin, Ill., undated |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slides 894-895 | John Kinzie home in 1832, color illustration (2), undated |
| Box 8 | Glass Plate Slide 571 | C. C. Kohlsaat home, 239 Ashland Avenue, undated |
| Box 8 | Glass Plate Slide 572 | Lake and Elizabeth Streets, undated |
| Box 8 | Glass Plate Slide 573 | Lake Street near State Street, undated |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 779 | Cyrus H. McCormick home, undated |
| Box 8 | Glass Plate Slide 574 | E. B. McGagg home, post-Fire ruins, [1871] |
| Box 8 | Glass Plate Slide 575 | E. B. McGagg home, undated |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 891 | Mrs. O’Leary home, 137 DeKoven Street, undated |
| Box 16 | Photograph 891 | Mrs. O’Leary home, 137 DeKoven Street, copy print of Glass Plate Slide 891, undated |
| Box 8 | Glass Plate Slide 577 | Park Row, undated |
| Box 8 | Glass Plate Slide 578 | Paulina Street home, undated |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 898 | James Payne home, Evanston and Addison Streets, undated |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 899 | Ebenezer Peck home, Clark Street north of Fullerton, 1905 |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 780 | O. W. Potter home, circa 1870 |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 896 | Potter Palmer home (cracked), undated |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 897 | Potter Palmer mansion [not same structure as 896], color, undated |
| Box 8 | Glass Plate Slides 576-576a | Potter Palmer home, Lake Shore Drive (2), undated |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 900 | Reese home, Cornelia near Lake Michigan, undated |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 901 | Roman Catholic Archbishop of Chicago residence, State Street and North Avenue (cracked), undated |
| Box 8 | Glass Plate Slide 579 | George F. Rumsy [Ramsey?] home, undated |
| Box 8 | Glass Plate Slide 580 | “I.G. Smith home, Ridge,” undated |
| Box 8 | Glass Plate Slide 581 | I.G. Smith home, undated |
| Box 8 | Glass Plate Slide 582 | I.G. Smith farm, barn, undated |
| Box 8 | Glass Plate Slide 583 | Soldiers’ home, 35th and Lake Streets, undated |
| Box 8 | Glass Plate Slide 584 | Staples home, undated |
| Box 8 | Glass Plate Slide 585 | Terrace Row, or Michigan Terrace [sic], undated |
| Box 8 | Glass Plate Slides 586-587 | Terrace Row (2), undated |
| Box 8 | Glass Plate Slide 588 | Terrace Row, undated |
| Box 16 | Photograph 588 | Terrace Row, copy print of Glass Plate Slide 588, undated |
| Box 9 | Glass Plate Slide 589 | Terrace Row, from breakwater, undated |
| Box 16 | Photograph 589 | Terrace Row, from breakwater, copy print of Glass Plate Slide 589, undated |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 902 | William M. Tilden home, Wabash and 13th Streets, circa 1890 |
| Box 9 | Glass Plate Slide 590 | Wheeler home, Madison Street, undated |
| Box 9 | Glass Plate Slide 591 | 54th Street and Cottage Grove Avenue, undated |
| Box 9 | Glass Plate Slide 592 | Unidentified street, undated |
| Box 9 | Glass Plate Slides 593-602 | Unidentified, undated |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 205 | Unidentified barn, undated |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 841 | Unidentified barn (Smith family), undated |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 963 | Unidentified tornado scene, house ripped off foundation, undated |
| Box 15 | Glass Plate Slide 972 | Unidentified Chicago residence, undated |
| Box 14 | Glass Plate Slide 984 | Unidentified apartment buildings, undated |
| Glass Plate Slide 603 | No slide for this number |
Series 10: Schools, 1856-circa 1871, undated
Arrangement
Series 10 is arranged alphabetically by school name. The number of images with the same description is indicated in parentheses.
| Box 9 | Glass Plate Slides 604-605 | Dearborn School (2), undated |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 781 | First public school in Chicago, color, 1856 |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 782 | First schoolhouse in Chicago, color, undated |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 210 | Foster Medal, 1857 |
| Box 9 | Glass Plate Slide 606 | Lake View High School, undated |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 783 | Moody Bible Institute, undated |
| Box 9 | Glass Plate Slide 607 | “Old schoolhouse,” undated |
| Box 9 | Glass Plate Slide 608 | Rush Medical College, post-Fire ruins, [1871] |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 838 | University of Chicago, Crerar Library, undated |
Series 11: Street Scenes, 1857-circa 1930, undated
Arrangement
Series 11 is arranged alphabetically by street name or location with unidentified locations at the end. The number of images with the same description is indicated in parentheses.
| Box 9 | Glass Plate Slide 647 | Chicago, aerial view illustration, undated |
| Box 9 | Glass Plate Slide 648 | Chicago, aerial view, lake and river illustration, undated |
| Box 9 | Glass Plate Slide 649 | Chicago, aerial map illustrations (cracked), undated |
| Box 6 | Glass Plate Slide 359 | Chicago, map showing burnt district after the Chicago Fire (cracked), 1871 |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 903 | Chicago in 1830, map by James Thompson, color (cracked), undated |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 904 | Ashland Avenue, color, circa 1870 |
| Box 9 | Glass Plate Slide 609 | Clark Street, 1857 |
| Box 9 | Glass Plate Slide 610 | Clark and Randolph, northeast corner, 1858 |
| Box 9 | Glass Plate Slide 611 | Clark and Washington, northeast corner, 1858 |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 905 | Clark Street, opposite Court House, 1860 |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 906 | Clark Street, 1887 |
| Box 9 | Glass Plate Slide 650 | Courthouse roof, view looking east, 1858 |
| Box 9 | Glass Plate Slide 651 | Courthouse roof, view looking east-southeast, 1858 |
| Box 9 | Glass Plate Slide 652 | Courthouse roof, view looking southeast, 1858 |
| Box 9 | Glass Plate Slide 653 | Courthouse roof, view looking south-southeast, 1858 |
| Box 9 | Glass Plate Slide 654 | Courthouse roof, view looking south, 1858 |
| Box 15 | Glass Plate Slide 1056 | Courthouse roof, view looking south and southeast, circa 1870s |
| Box 9 | Glass Plate Slide 655 | Courthouse roof, view looking west, 1858 |
| Box 9 | Glass Plate Slide 656 | Courthouse roof, view looking northwest, 1858 |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 657 | Courthouse roof, view looking northeast, 1858 |
| Box 9 | Glass Plate Slide 612 | Dearborn, north from Lake Street, undated |
| Box 9 | Glass Plate Slide 613 | Dearborn, west side, south from Lake Street, undated |
| Box 9 | Glass Plate Slide 614 | Dearborn and Madison, southwest corner undated |
| Box 9 | Glass Plate Slide 615 | Dearborn and Washington Streets, northwest corner, undated |
| Box 9 | Glass Plate Slide 616 | Fullerton Block, Dearborn and Washington Streets, post-Fire ruins, [1871] |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 907 | Grand Boulevard, color, circa 1870 |
| Box 9 | Glass Plate Slide 617 | Harrison Street, looking north, post-Fire ruins, [1871] |
| Box 9 | Glass Plate Slide 646 | Indian trails and villages of Chicago, 1804 map, undated |
| Box 9 | Glass Plate Slide 618 | Lake Street, between Clark and LaSalle Streets, while being raised to new grade, undated |
| Box 9 | Glass Plate Slide 619 | Lake Street, west from Michigan Avenue (cracked), undated |
| Box 9 | Glass Plate Slide 620 | Lake Street, west from Michigan Avenue, undated |
| Box 9 | Glass Plate Slide 621 | Lake Street, east from State Street, undated |
| Box 9 | Glass Plate Slide 622 | Lake Street and State Street, southeast corner, undated |
| Box 9 | Glass Plate Slide 623 | Lake Street, #22, 24, 26, ice-clad building following a fire, undated |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 908 | Lake Street, looking east from Clark Street, circa 1890 |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 909 | Lake Shore Drive, circa 1920 |
| Box 16 | Photograph 909 | Lake Shore Drive, copy print of Glass Plate Slide 909, circa 1920 |
| Box 9 | Glass Plate Slide 624 | LaSalle Street, looking south, undated |
| Box 9 | Glass Plate Slide 625 | LaSalle and Adams Streets, southwest corner, 1858 |
| Box 9 | Glass Plate Slide 626 | LaSalle and Washington, northwest corner, post-Fire ruins, [1871] |
| Box 9 | Glass Plate Slide 627 | Michigan Avenue, color, undated |
| Box 16 | Photograph 627 | Michigan Avenue, black and white copy print of Glass Plate Slide 627, undated |
| Box 9 | Glass Plate Slide 628 | Michigan Avenue and Adams Street, northwest corner (cracked), undated |
| Box 9 | Glass Plate Slide 629 | Michigan Avenue, south from Jackson Street (cracked), undated |
| Box 16 | Photograph 629 | Michigan Avenue, south from Jackson Street, copy print Glass Plate Slide 629, undated |
| Box 9 | Glass Plate Slide 630 | Michigan Avenue and Lake Street, southwest corner, undated |
| Box 9 | Glass Plate Slide 631 | Michigan Avenue, looking north from Madison Avenue, undated |
| Box 9 | Glass Plate Slide 632 | Michigan Avenue and Randolph Street [missing], undated |
| Box 9 | Glass Plate Slide 633 | Michigan Avenue and Water Street [missing], undated |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 910 | Michigan Avenue, looking south from north of Art Institute, circa 1930 |
| Box 9 | Glass Plate Slide 634 | Milwaukee and Ashland Avenues [missing], undated |
| Box 9 | Glass Plate Slide 635 | Randolph Street, west from Michigan Avenue [missing], undated |
| Box 9 | Glass Plate Slide 636 | Rush Street Bridge [missing], undated |
| Box 9 | Glass Plate Slide 637 | State Street, east side from Lake Street, south [missing], undated |
| Box 9 | Glass Plate Slide 638 | State Street, north of Washington Street, color, undated |
| Box 9 | Glass Plate Slides 639-639a | State Street, south from Lake Street (2), undated |
| Box 9 | Glass Plate Slide 640 | State Street Bridge, undated |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 911 | State Street, looking north from Van Buren Street, color, circa 1920 |
| Box 14 | Glass Plate Slide 1051 | State Street, looking north from South Water Street (cracked), circa 1870 |
| Box 9 | Glass Plate Slide 641 | Wabash Avenue, north from Hubbard Court, undated |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 912 | Wabash Avenue, from Jackson Boulevard, pre-Fire (cracked), 1871 |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 913 | Wabash Avenue, north from Hubbard Court, circa 1890 |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 914 | Wabash Avenue and Washington Street, water wagon (cracked), undated |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 915 | Wacker Drive, looking west, river, circa 1920 |
| Box 9 | Glass Plate Slide 642 | Washington Street, east from Dearborn Street, undated |
| Box 9 | Glass Plate Slide 643 | Washington and LaSalle Streets, undated |
| Box 9 | Glass Plate Slide 644 | Washington and LaSalle Streets, southwest corner, post-Fire ruins, [1871] |
| Box 9 | Glass Plate Slide 645 | South Water Street, illustration, undated |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 916 | South Water Street, color illustration of 1834, undated |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 658 | Unidentified street, horse and carriage, Col. Wood’s Museum in background, undated |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 660 | Unidentified street, with elephants, illustration, undated |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 661 | Unidentified street, undated |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 662 | Unidentified street, horse-drawn wagons, undated |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 663 | Unidentified street, Redd’s Temple of Music store, trams in street, illustration, undated |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 664 | Unidentified street, unpaved, undated |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 665 | Unidentified street, North Western Patent Agency store, undated |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 666 | Unidentified street, undated |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 667 | Unidentified street, Cobb’s building |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 668 | Unidentified street, undated |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 669 | Unidentified street, demolished building, undated |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slides 670-671 | Unidentified street, people in street, post-Fire ruins (2), 1871 |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 672 | Unidentified street, post-Fire ruins, 1871 |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 673 | Unidentified street, undated |
| Box 16 | Photograph 673 | Unidentified street, copy print of Glass Plate Slide 673, undated |
| Box 15 | Glass Plate Slide 973 | Unidentified street, circa 1930 |
| Box 15 | Glass Plate Slide 974 | Unidentified street, crowd milling in front of burned-out building, circa 1910 |
| Box 14 | Glass Plate Slides 985-986 | Unidentified street (2), undated |
| Box 14 | Glass Plate Slide 1057 | Unidentified street, [possibly Near West Side?], undated |
Series 12: Transportation, 1855-circa 1930, undated
Arrangement
Series 12 is arranged alphabetically by transportation type and then alphabetically within. The number of images with the same description is indicated in parentheses.
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 784 | Bridge - Rush Street Bridge, illustration, 1860 |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 785 | Bridge - Rush Street Bridge, color, 1865 |
| Box 16 | Photograph 785 | Bridge - Rush Street Bridge, black and white copy print of Glass Plate Slide 785, 1865 |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 786 | Bridge - Rush Street Bridge, 1914 |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slides 965-966 | Horse - Harness racing, on a rural dirt road (2), undated |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 917 | Mass Transit - Cable car and sketch of the grip, color illustration, 1881 |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 925 | Mass Transit - Parmalee Omnibus Line, advertisement, 1855 |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 918 | Railroad - Chicago and vicinity in 1852, map drawn to show city’s plank and railroad system, undated |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 678 | Railroad - Galena & Chicago Union Depot, “Railway Men’s Reading Room,” Kinzie and Canal Street, undated |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 679 | Railroad - Great Central Depot, basin, Michigan Avenue from Park Row, undated |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 680 | Railroad - Illinois Central Railroad (?), engine, undated |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 920 | Railroad - Illinois and Michigan Canal, color illustration of 1840s, undated |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 921 | Railroad - Illinois Central Railroad, Union Depot, Lake Street, 1857 |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 922 | Railroad - Illinois Central Railroad, Michigan Avenue from the lake, illustration, undated |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 681 | Railroad - Lake Shore Union Depot, post-Fire ruins (cracked), [1871] |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 923 | Railroad - North Chicago City Railway, tickets, circa 1850 |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 924 | Railroad - North Chicago Street Railroad, “horse car and hoopskirts,” color illustration, 1858 |
| Box 16 | Photograph 924 | Railroad - North Chicago Street Railroad, “horse car and hoopskirts,” black and white copy print of Glass Plate Slide 924, 1858 |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 677 | Railroad - “Old Cook Street Depot,” illustration, undated |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 927 | Railroad - Randolph Street Railroad Station, circa 1860 |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 682 | Railroad - tracks, over waterway, undated |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 964 | Water - Calumet River [?], dam and lock, undated |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 674 | Water - Chicago Harbor, illustration, undated |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 675 | Water - Chicago Harbor, first shipment of grain from Chicago’s first dock, illustration, undated |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 208 | Water - Chicago River [?], undated |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 676 | Water - Chicago River, shipping, illustration, undated |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 919 | Water - Chicago River, from Rush Street Bridge, circa 1880 |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 967 | Water - Ore boat, Lake Michigan, undated |
| Box 16 | Photograph 967 | Water - Ore boat, Lake Michigan, copy print of Glass Plate Slide 967, undated |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 926 | Water - Port of Chicago, Lake Michigan, aerial, circa 1930 |
Series 13: World’s Fairs, 1893, 1933
Arrangement
Series 13 is arranged by fair and then alphabetically within. The number of images with the same description is indicated in parentheses.
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 809 | Century of Progress - Fort Dearborn Replica, color (cracked), 1933 |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 810 | Century of Progress - Hall of Science, color (cracked), 1933 |
| Box 11 | Glass Plate Slide 811 | Century of Progress - Administration Building, color (cracked), 1933 |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 812 | Century of Progress - Byrd’s Polar Ship, color (cracked), 1933 |
| Box 12 | Glass Plate Slide 813 | Century of Progress - Adler Planetarium, color (cracked), 1933 |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 683 | World’s Columbian Exposition - café, 1893 |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 684 | World’s Columbian Exposition - Chicago Day Parade, horse and rider, 1893 |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 685 | World’s Columbian Exposition - Cliff dwellers exhibit, 1893 |
| Box 4 | Glass Plate Slide 209 | World’s Columbian Exposition - crowd scene on lakefront, “U.S.S. Illinois,” U.S. Government Exhibit, color, 1893 |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 686 | World’s Columbian Exposition - Cummins’ Wild West Show, 1893 |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 687 | World’s Columbian Exposition - dedication, 1893 |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 688 | World’s Columbian Exposition - entrance, color, 1893 |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 928 | World’s Columbian Exposition - Fine Arts Building, 1893 |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 929 | World’s Columbian Exposition - German Building, 1893 |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 689 | World’s Columbian Exposition - [Columbian] Guard, 1893 |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 690 | World’s Columbian Exposition - Horticultural Building, 1893 |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 691 | Slide number not used |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 692 | World’s Columbian Exposition - Japanese pottery, color, 1893 |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 693 | World’s Columbian Exposition - lagoon by night, 1893 |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 694 | World’s Columbian Exposition - Main Basin, east end, night view, 1893 |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 695 | World’s Columbian Exposition - Maryland Building, color, 1893 |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 696 | World’s Columbian Exposition - Mines and Mining Building, Montana, Silver Statue of Ada Rehan, 1893 |
| Box 16 | Photograph 696 | World’s Columbian Exposition - Mines and Mining Building, Montana, Silver Statue of Ada Rehan, copy print of Glass Plate Slide 696, 1893 |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 697 | World’s Columbian Exposition - Mississippi Building, 1893 |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 698 | World’s Columbian Exposition - New York State Building, color (cracked), 1893 |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 930 | World’s Columbian Exposition - plan of grounds, 1893 |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 931 | World’s Columbian Exposition - statue, “The Appeal to the Great Spirit” by Dallin, 1893 |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 701 | World’s Columbian Exposition - statuary, figurine of two cats, 1893 |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 702 | World’s Columbian Exposition - statuary, “Playing Doctor,” 1893 |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 703 | World’s Columbian Exposition - statuary, slave in Court of Honor, 1893 |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slides 699-700 | World’s Columbian Exposition - statuary, unidentified (2), 1893 |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 704 | World’s Columbian Exposition - Transportation Building, 1893 |
| Box 13 | Glass Plate Slide 932 | World’s Columbian Exposition - United States Government Building |
| Box 10 | Glass Plate Slide 705 | World’s Columbian Exposition - welcome (cracked), 1893 |