Lillian M. Campbell Memorial Collection

Dates: 1858-1940 (Bulk dates: 1930-1940)
Size: 14.5 linear feet in 12 boxes, includes 355 photographs
Repository: Chicago Public Library, Harold Washington Library Center, Special Collections, 400 S. State St., Chicago, IL 60605
Collection Number: spe-nhrc-lmc
Immediate Source of Acquisition: Frank R. Campbell made his collection available through the West Side Historical Society collections held at Chicago Public Library, Legler Branch Library and then transferred in the 1980s as part of a Dr. Scholl Foundation grant. The Oriental Consistory deeded its claim to Chicago Public Library.
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Preferred Citation: When quoting material from this collection the preferred citation is: Lillian M. Campbell Memorial Collection [Box #, Folder #], Special Collections, Chicago Public Library.
Finding Aid Author: Original author unknown, circa 1989. Supplements 1 and 2 were added in 1990 and 1991. Updated and ingested into ArchivesSpace by Michelle McCoy, 2022

Abstract

Lillian May (Smith) Campbell and her husband, Frank R. Campbell amassed a collection of photographs of Chicago views that primarily depict streetcars, trolley buses and other modes of transportation as well as document opening ceremonies for bus and streetcar lines across the city in the 1930s. The collection is particularly strong in the neighborhoods of Roseland, South Shore, South Chicago, Woodlawn, Lake View, Rogers Park, Portage Park and Logan Square.

Biographical/Historical

Lillian May Smith was born on the West Side of Chicago, August 22, 1881, the daughter of George D. and Susan A. Smith. She married Frank R. Campbell on April 20, 1902. The couple settled in Chicago’s 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. She also served as President of seven other organizations. In 1937 at a testimonial dinner sponsored by the Distinguished Civic Service Association of Chicago, the presidents of eighteen West Side organizations presented her with a signed citation.

Among her accomplishments, 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. In 1937, she was the impetus behind the founding of a alcohol and drug abuse rehabilitation home for first-offender women. 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 (CTA). Mr. Campbell was also active in numerous civic organizations, including the West Side Historical Society. He died in October 1946. Despite their Episcopalian faith, the funeral services for Lillian and Frank were conducted by the Unitarian pastor Preston Bradley.

For further information about the lives of Frank and Lillian Campbell, see the Austin Community Collection, Box 10, Folder 2.

Scope and Contents

Lillian May (Smith) Campbell and her husband, Frank R. Campbell amassed a collection of photographs of Chicago views that primarily depict streetcars, trolley buses and other modes of transportation as well as document opening ceremonies for bus and streetcar lines across the city in the 1930s. A significant portion of the images depict vehicles and lines operated by the Chicago Surface Lines (CSL), a street railway system in Chicago from 1913 to 1947. This firm and its system of transit lines was a predecessor of today's publicly owned operator, the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA). Other lines associated with CSL that are depicted here include the Chicago City Railway Co. and the Chicago Union Traction Co. Dedication events are documented for the opening of lines on Central Avenue; North Avenue and Austin Boulevard; Higgins Road/Northwest Highway; Madison Street; Foster and Kimball Streets; Pulaski Road and 31st Street; Ogden Avenue and Halsted Street. The collection also includes several photographic views that show the same intersection taken twenty or thirty years apart.

The collection is particularly strong in the neighborhoods of Roseland, South Shore, South Chicago, Woodlawn, Lake View, Rogers Park, Portage Park and Logan Square.

The original inventory of photographs is in Box 1, Folder 1. Covers of the original photograph books 2-5, and sample pages from Book 2 have been preserved in Box 1, Folders 2-3. The remainder of the original books has been discarded.

The dates given for this collection are 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 (Photograph 207).

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Frank R. Campbell made his collection publicly available through the West Side Historical Society collections at the Legler Branch Library of Chicago Public Library. 355 of the original 851 photographs are now in Special Collections. The Library gratefully acknowledges the Oriental Consistory which deeded its claim to the collection to Chicago Public Library.

Supplement 1 consists of 39 photographs found in box of miscellany after the original collection was cataloged. The photographs were processed in November 1990.

Supplement 2 consists of Book 8 of the Campbell Collection and includes photographs 684 to 851. Unlike the others, this book was a published viewbook of images of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition: Photographs 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 Werner Company, 1894. These items were added in February 1991.

Arrangement

The Lillian Memorial Campbell Collection is arranged in 6 Series by topic and material type:

  • Series 1: Documents, 1894-1943, undated
  • Series 2: Businesses and Organizations, 1858-1940, undated
  • Series 3: Historical Topics, circa 1858-1933, undated
  • Series 4: Residences, circa 1864-1900, undated
  • Series 5: Street Scenes, 1875-1940, undated
  • Series 6: Transportation, 1866-1940, undated

Subject Headings

  • Chicago (Ill.) -- History-- Sources
  • Chicago Surface Lines
  • Chicago Transit Authority
  • Lakeview (Chicago, Ill.)
  • Local transit -- Illinois -- Chicago
  • Logan Square (Chicago, Ill.)
  • Portage Park (Chicago, Ill.)
  • Pullman’s Palace Car Company
  • Rogers Park (Chicago, Ill.)
  • Roseland (Chicago, Ill.)
  • South Chicago (Chicago, Ill.)
  • South Shore (Chicago, Ill.)
  • Transportation -- Illinois -- Chicago
  • Woodlawn (Chicago, Ill.)

Related Collections

  • Austin Community Collection
  • Chicago City-Wide Collection
  • Chicago Postcard Collection
  • Historic Pullman Collection

Collection Inventory

Series 1: Documents, 1894-1943, undated

Arrangement

Series 1 is arranged alphabetically by topic.

Box 1 Folder 1 Campbell’s original inventory, 1941 March 7
Box 1 Folder 2 Covers for books 2 and 3, undated
Box 1 Folder 3 Covers for books 4 and 5, undated
Box 1 Folder 4 News clippings of collection gift to West Side Historical Society, 1943
Box 1 Folder 5 Photographs of the World’s Fair, Werner Company, Chicago, bound volume (Photographs 684-851), 1894

Series 2: Businesses and Organizations, 1858-1940, undated

Arrangement

Series 2 is arranged alphabetically by business or organization.

Box 5 Photograph 218 Andersonville School, 1880
Box 7 Photograph 314 Austin Federation of Clubs, Inc., Traction Ordinance, Town Hall meeting, 1930
Box 7 Photograph 315 Austin Federation of Clubs, Inc., Traction Ordinance, Town Hall meeting, view of audience, 1930
Box 6 Photograph 267 Chicago Fire Department, engine no. 89, Mayfair Station, circa 1900
Box 6 Photograph 268 Chicago Fire Department, Hook and Ladder no. 23, Jefferson Park, circa 1900
Box 6 Photograph 269 Chicago Fire Department, Hook and Ladder no. 23, Grimm and Lippsa, 1934
Box 6 Photograph 265 Chicago Police Department, Chicago 36th Precinct, Jefferson Township Hall, circa 1900
Box 5 Photograph 206 Cook County Courthouse, circa 1840 view, undated
Box 5 Photograph 207 Cook County Courthouse, 1858
Box 5 Photograph 208 Cook County Courthouse, undated
Box 6 Photograph 260 Dickinson Tavern, circa 1900
Box 11 Photograph 442 Gengler Brothers, 5324 Clark Street, 1904
Box 1 Photograph 20 Hull House, courtyard, 1935
Box 2 Photograph 109 J. Kuyper Meat Market, 10925 S. Michigan Avenue, 1875
Box 6 Photograph 266 Jefferson Township Volunteers (police), no. 2, circa 1880
Box 2 Photograph 36 Liberty Trust and Savings Bank, Kedzie Avenue and 12th Street, 1912
Box 12 Photograph 496 Martha Washington Hospital, Irving Park and Western Avenue, 1933
Box 4 Photograph 196 Our Lady of Sorrows, Novena crowds, 1940
Box 5 Photograph 203 Sauganash Tavern in 1833, undated
Box 2 Photograph 110 Victor P. Johnson Signs, 10925 S. Michigan Avenue, 1934
Box 7 Photograph 288 Village of Central Park, jail, Carroll and Karlov Avenues, circa 1885
Box 7 Photograph 299 West Side Historical Association, Chicago Public Library, Legler Branch, 1934
Box 12 Photograph 497 Wrigley Building, night, 1936

Series 3: Historical Topics, circa 1858-1933, undated

Arrangement

Series 3 is arranged alphabetically by historical topic or the last name of historical person.

Box 5 Photograph 212 Chicago Fire, 3-D panorama, 1871
Box 5 Photograph 204 Chicago River and Harbor, circa 1860
Box 7 Photograph 300 Crawford, Peter (1796-1876), undated
Box 7 Photograph 313 Edgar, Thomas, Director of Austin Town Hall, 1930
Box 12 Photograph 476 Fire engine from 1835, undated
Box 5 Photograph 216 Fire engine, 1871
Box 7 Photograph 301 Kimball, Martin Nelson (1812-?), undated
Box 12 Photograph 477 Lincoln, Abraham, death bed, undated
Box 5 Photograph 205 Map of Chicago in 1833 by Walter Conley and O.E.Stelzer, Photostat [See also: Chicago City Wide-Collection, Oversize Folder 44], 1933
Box 5 Photograph 215 Mason, Roswell B., Mayor of Chicago, circa 1869
Box 5 Photograph 213 Ogden, William B. (1805-1877), first Mayor of Chicago, undated
Box 5 Photograph 224 Toll Gate, Rogers Avenue and Clark Street, 1884
Box 6 Photograph 270 Toll Gate, turnpike gate, Milwaukee and Fullerton Avenues, 1889
Box 5 Photograph 202 Treaty of Greenville in 1795, undated
Box 5 Photograph 214 Wentworth, John, Mayor of Chicago, circa 1858
Box 4 Photograph 179 World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago Day, 1893 October 9

Series 4: Residences, circa 1864-1900, undated

Arrangement

Series 4 is arranged alphabetically by last name of the historical home resident.

Box 11 Photograph 443 Fritz, Nicholas home, Clark Street and Catalpa, built 1830, undated
Box 5 Photograph 220 Kransz, Nicholas home, 5947 N. Clark Street, corner of Ridge, known as “7 mile house,” circa 1870
Box 11 Photograph 444 Kransz, Nicholas home, Clark Street and Ridge Avenue, built 1853-1857, circa 1900
Box 11 Photograph 445 Kransz, Nicholas home, Clark Street and Ridge Avenue, built 1853-1857, circa 1900
Box 11 Photograph 446 Kransz, Peter P. home and barn, 5896 Ridge Avenue, built 1881, undated
Box 5 Photograph 223 Murphy, Edward home, Clark and Rogers Avenue, built 1833, undated
Box 6 Photograph 257 Smith, James home, Cicero and Irving Park, circa 1880
Box 12 Photograph 467 Smith, James home, 4702 Irving Park Boulevard, 1890
Box 11 Photograph 448 Touhy, Patrick L. home, Clark and Sherwin Streets, built 1871, circa 1900
Box 11 Photograph 447 Weber, Bernard F. home, Ridge Avenue and Thome Street, circa 1864
Box 5 Photograph 236 Unidentified, 4500 block of North Broadway, 1900
Box 6 Photograph 263 Unidentified, Milwaukee Avenue at Berteau Avenue, [image from 1847?], undated

Series 5: Street Scenes, 1875-1940, undated

Arrangement

Series 5 is arranged numerically by street number and then alphabetically by street name or viewpoint location.

Box 4 Photograph 180 47th Street and South Parkway, looking east, 1934
Box 4 Photograph 174 63rd Street and Cottage Grove Avenue, looking north, 1934
Box 4 Photograph 173 63rd Street and Cottage Grove Avenue, looking south, 1934
Box 4 Photograph 170 63rd Street and Illinois Central Railroad, looking east, 1892
Box 4 Photograph 171 63rd Street and Illinois Central Railroad, looking west, 1892
Box 4 Photograph 172 63rd Street and Illinois Central Railroad, looking west, 1934
Box 4 Photograph 169 63rd Street and Illinois Central Railroad, photo of circa 1880 painting, undated
Box 4 Photograph 177 63rd Street and South Park Avenue, looking east, 1892
Box 4 Photograph 178 63rd Street and South Park Avenue, looking east, 1934
Box 2 Photograph 90 63rd Street, east from west of Halsted Street, 1934
Box 2 Photograph 93 63rd Street, west from east of Halsted, 1934
Box 4 Photograph 175 67th Street and Cottage Grove Avenue, looking north, 1910
Box 4 Photograph 176 67th Street and Cottage Grove Avenue, looking north, 1934
Box 4 Photograph 188 67th Street and Stony Island Avenue, aerial view looking north, 1936
Box 4 Photograph 167 67th Street and Stony Island Avenue, looking northwest, 1923
Box 4 Photograph 168 67th Street and Stony Island Avenue, looking west, 1934
Box 3 Photograph 159 77th Street and Euclid Avenue, looking south, 1915
Box 3 Photograph 160 77th Street and Euclid Avenue, looking south, 1934
Box 3 Photograph 157 77th Street and Jeffrey Avenue, looking south, 1915
Box 3 Photograph 158 77th Street and Jeffrey Avenue, looking south, 1934
Box 4 Photograph 165 77th Street and Stony Island Avenue, looking south, 1915
Box 4 Photograph 166 77th Street and Stony Island Avenue, looking south, 1934
Box 4 Photograph 163 77th Street and Stony Island Avenue, looking southeast, 1915
Box 4 Photograph 164 77th Street and Stony Island Avenue, looking southeast, 1934
Box 3 Photograph 161 78th Street and Stony Island Avenue, looking east, 1915
Box 3 Photograph 162 78th Street and Stony Island Avenue, looking east, 1934
Box 3 Photograph 137 78th Street and Stony Island Avenue, looking north, 1915
Box 3 Photograph 149 79th Street and Bennett Avenue, looking north, 1915
Box 3 Photograph 150 79th Street and Bennett Avenue, looking north, 1934
Box 3 Photograph 147 79th Street and Constance Avenue, looking north, 1915
Box 3 Photograph 148 79th Street and Constance Avenue, looking north, 1934
Box 3 Photograph 139 79th Street and Cornell Avenue, looking northeast, 1915
Box 3 Photograph 140 79th Street and Cornell Avenue, looking northeast, 1934
Box 2 Photograph 104 79th Street and Cottage Grove Avenue, looking west, 1908
Box 2 Photograph 105 79th Street and Cottage Grove Avenue, looking southwest, 1909
Box 2 Photograph 106 79th Street and Cottage Grove Avenue, looking southwest, 1934
Box 2 Photograph 107 79th Street and Cottage Grove Avenue, looking southwest, 1908
Box 2 Photograph 108 79th Street and Cottage Grove Avenue, looking west, 1934
Box 3 Photograph 145 79th Street and Crieger Avenue, looking north, 1915
Box 3 Photograph 146 79th Street and Crieger Avenue, looking north, 1934
Box 3 Photograph 141 79th Street and East End Avenue, looking north, 1915
Box 3 Photograph 142 79th Street and East End Avenue, looking north, 1934
Box 3 Photograph 151 79th Street and Euclid Avenue, looking north, 1915
Box 3 Photograph 152 79th Street and Euclid Avenue, looking north, 1934
Box 3 Photograph 155 79th Street and Jeffery Avenue, looking west, 1915
Box 3 Photograph 156 79th Street and Jeffrey Avenue, looking west, 1934
Box 3 Photograph 153 79th Street and Jeffrey Avenue, northwest corner, 1915
Box 3 Photograph 154 79th Street and Jeffrey Avenue, northwest corner, 1934
Box 3 Photograph 143 79th Street and Ridgeland Avenue, looking north, 1915
Box 2 Photograph 103 79th Street, east across Stony Island and South Chicago Avenue, 1934
Box 2 Photograph 86 79th Street, east from alley west of Ashland Avenue, 1934
Box 3 Photograph 135 79th Street, Stony Island and S. Chicago Avenue, looking east, 1915
Box 3 Photograph 136 79th Street, Stony Island Avenue and S. Chicago Avenue, looking east, 1934
Box 3 Photograph 138 79th Street, Stony Island Avenue and S. Chicago Avenue, looking north, 1934
Box 3 Photograph 133 92nd Street and Burley Avenue, looking west, before 1912
Box 3 Photograph 131 92nd Street and Commercial Avenue, looking north, before 1912
Box 3 Photograph 132 92nd Street and Commercial Avenue, looking north, 1934
Box 3 Photograph 134 92nd Street and Commercial Avenue, looking west, 1934
Box 11 Photograph 462 Addison Street and Western Avenue, looking southwest, Lane Technical High School, 1935
Box 11 Photograph 454 Ashland, Belmont and Lincoln Avenues, looking north on Ashland Avenue, 1922
Box 11 Photograph 455 Ashland, Belmont and Lincoln Avenues, looking north and northwest on Lincoln Avenue, 1922
Box 11 Photograph 456 Ashland, Belmont and Lincoln Avenues, northwest corner, 1930
Box 11 Photograph 457 Ashland, Belmont and Lincoln Avenues, southwest corner, 1930
Box 11 Photograph 458 Ashland, Belmont and Lincoln Avenues, northwest corner, 1930
Box 11 Photograph 459 Ashland, Belmont and Lincoln Avenues, west on Belmont Avenue, before 1930
Box 11 Photograph 460 Ashland, Belmont and Lincoln Avenues, southwest corner, 1930
Box 11 Photograph 461 Ashland, Belmont and Lincoln Avenues, northeast corner, 1930
Box 5 Photograph 228 Ashland and Belmont Avenues, northeast corner, before 1913
Box 5 Photograph 229 Ashland, Belmont and Lincoln Avenues, looking north, 1934
Box 5 Photograph 230 Ashland, Belmont and Lincoln Avenues, looking northwest, 1922
Box 5 Photograph 231 Ashland, Belmont and Lincoln Avenues, looking northwest, 1934
Box 6 Photograph 274 Belmont and Central Avenues, looking east [possibly 1904?], 1924
Box 6 Photograph 275 Belmont and Central Avenues, looking east, 1934
Box 5 Photograph 233 Belmont and Lincoln Avenues, looking southeast, 1930
Box 5 Photograph 227 Broadway and Wilson Avenue, looking south, 1934
Box 6 Photograph 278 California and North Avenues, view of Humboldt Park, 1922
Box 4 Photograph 198 Central Avenue, 700 block north, 1940
Box 11 Photograph 449 Christiana Avenue, at Balmoral Avenue, looking north, 1935
Box 11 Photograph 441 Clark Street, 5200 north block, 1918 January
Box 5 Photograph 217 N. Clark Street at Dole Ave and Sherman Place, World’s Columbian Exposition Ferris Wheel in background, circa 1893
Box 5 Photograph 219 Clark Street, north of Foster Avenue, 1935
Box 5 Photograph 221 Clark Street and Ridge Avenue, looking east, Senn High School in rear, 1934
Box 5 Photograph 222 Clark Street, near Greenleaf Avenue, copy print, 1875
Box 5 Photograph 225 Clark Street, at Rogers Avenue and Jarvis, undated
Box 7 Photograph 291 Crawford Avenue, north of south of Madison Street, 1934
Box 11 Photograph 450 Devon and Western Avenues, northwest corner, 1914
Box 11 Photograph 451 Devon and Western Avenues, north and east, 1914
Box 11 Photograph 452 Devon and Western Avenues, looking east on Devon Avenue, 1914
Box 11 Photograph 453 Devon and Western Avenues, looking west on Devon Avenue, 1914
Box 2 Photograph 14 Halsted Street, south from Madison Street, 1906
Box 2 Photograph 15 Halsted Street, south from north of Madison Street, 1935
Box 2 Photograph 16 Halsted Street, north from Harrison, 1906
Box 2 Photograph 91 Halsted Street, north across 63rd Street, 1925
Box 2 Photograph 98 Halsted Street, south from north of 79th Street, 1934
Box 2 Photograph 99 Halsted Street, north from south of 79th Street, circa 1890
Box 2 Photograph 102 Halsted Street, north from south of 82nd Street, 1935
Box 2 Photograph 50 Harding Avenue, north from 26th Street, 1934
Box 7 Photograph 302 Harrison Street and Kedzie Avenue, looking east, 1909
Box 7 Photograph 303 Harrison Street and Kedzie Avenue, looking west, 1934
Box 5 Photograph 200 Kedzie Avenue and Jackson Boulevard, crowds leaving Our Lady of Sorrows Church, 1940
Box 5 Photograph 201 Kedzie Avenue and Jackson Boulevard, crowds leaving Our Lady of Sorrows Church, 1940
Box 6 Photograph 240 Kedzie and Bryn Mawr Avenues, looking south, 1924
Box 6 Photograph 241 Kedzie and Bryn Mawr Avenues, looking south, 1934
Box 6 Photograph 246 Kedzie and Lawrence Avenues, looking north, 1913
Box 6 Photograph 247 Kedzie and Lawrence Avenues, looking west. 1934
Box 6 Photograph 248 Kedzie and Lawrence Avenues, looking north, 1914
Box 6 Photograph 249 Kedzie and Lawrence Avenues, looking west, 1934
Box 7 Photograph 289 Lake Street and Keeler Avenue, “Todd’s Corner,” Central Park, 1883
Box 5 Photograph 211 LaSalle Street, south from Randolph Street, circa 1860
Box 5 Photograph 232 Lincoln Avenue, southeast from north of Belmont Avenue, 1934
Box 6 Photograph 242 Logan Square, looking northeast, 1906
Box 6 Photograph 243 Logan Square, looking northwest, 1934
Box 6 Photograph 244 Logan Square, looking west, 1906
Box 6 Photograph 245 Logan Square, looking northwest, 1934
Box 2 Photograph 12 Madison Street, east from west of Halsted Street, 1906
Box 2 Photograph 13 Madison Street, east from west of Halsted Street, 1935
Box 4 Photograph 197 Madison and Hamlin Streets, looking northwest, 1937
Box 7 Photograph 283 Madison Street, east from Western Avenue, 1934
Box 7 Photograph 284 Madison Street and Kedzie Avenue, looking east, 1912
Box 7 Photograph 285 Madison Street and Kedzie Avenue, looking east, 1934
Box 7 Photograph 286 Madison Street and Kedzie Avenue, southeast corner, 1910
Box 7 Photograph 287 Madison Street and Kedzie Avenue, looking northeast, 1910
Box 7 Photograph 294 Madison Street and Crawford Avenue, northeast corner, 1929
Box 7 Photograph 295 Madison Street and Crawford Avenue, northeast corner, 1934
Box 10 Photograph 405 Madison Street and Kedzie Avenue, northwest corner, 1936 November 12
Box 10 Photograph 406 Madison Street and Kedzie Avenue, northeast corner, 1936 November 12
Box 7 Photograph 304 Madison Street and Western Avenue, looking west, 1934
Box 12 Photograph 471 Madison Street, 4000 block west, 1921
Box 2 Photograph 30 Maxwell Street, 516-518, circa 1900
Box 2 Photograph 112 Michigan Avenue and 111th Street, laying railway tracks, 1892
Box 2 Photograph 113 Michigan Avenue and 111th Street, laying sewer line, 1900
Box 2 Photograph 114 Michigan Avenue and 111th Street, [construction?], 1900
Box 2 Photograph 115 Michigan Avenue and 111th Street, corner, 1890
Box 2 Photograph 116 Michigan Avenue and 111th Street, looking south, 1934
Box 2 Photograph 117 Michigan Avenue and 111th Street, looking west, 1905
Box 2 Photograph 118 Michigan Avenue and 111th Street, looking west, 1934
Box 2 Photograph 119 Michigan Avenue and 111th Street, looking east, 1903
Box 2 Photograph 120 Michigan Avenue and 111th Street, looking east, 1934
Box 3 Photograph 121 Michigan Avenue and 111th Street, looking north, 1900
Box 3 Photograph 123 Michigan Avenue and 111th Street, looking southwest, 1900
Box 3 Photograph 124 Michigan Avenue and 110th Street, looking south, 1897
Box 3 Photograph 125 Michigan Avenue and 111th Street, looking southeast, 1903
Box 3 Photograph 126 Michigan Avenue and 113th Street, looking north, 1890
Box 3 Photograph 127 Michigan Avenue and 113th Street, looking onto 113th Street, 1910
Box 3 Photograph 128 Michigan Avenue and 113th Street, looking north, 1934
Box 3 Photograph 129 Michigan Avenue and 115th Street, looking east, 1895
Box 3 Photograph 130 Michigan Avenue and 115th Street, looking east, 1934
Box 12 Photograph 475 Michigan Avenue, from the Lake Street, 1865
Box 6 Photograph 280 Milwaukee and Ashland Avenues, looking southeast, 1906
Box 7 Photograph 281 Milwaukee and Ashland Avenues, looking northwest, 1934
Box 6 Photograph 272 Milwaukee and Belmont Avenues, looking northwest, 1901
Box 6 Photograph 273 Milwaukee and Belmont Avenues, looking northwest, 1934
Box 12 Photograph 470 Milwaukee Avenue and Cicero Avenues, northwest corner, 1910
Box 6 Photograph 271 Milwaukee and Fullerton Avenues, looking southeast, 1934
Box 6 Photograph 262 Milwaukee and Hutchinson Avenues, northwest corner, 1902
Box 11 Photograph 463 Milwaukee Avenue and Mautene Court, looking northwest, 1934
Box 6 Photograph 259 Milwaukee Avenue, at Berteau Avenue, 1934
Box 6 Photograph 261 Milwaukee Avenue, looking southeast from Warner Street, 1934
Box 6 Photograph 276 North Avenue and Crawford, looking northeast, 1904
Box 6 Photograph 277 North Avenue and Crawford, looking west, 1934
Box 6 Photograph 279 North Avenue, east from west of California, 1935
Box 12 Photograph 473 North Avenue and California Avenue, snow removal, 1918
Box 2 Photograph 41 Ogden and Crawford Avenues, 1900
Box 4 Photograph 189 Ogden Avenue, view of Douglas Park, 1936
Box 6 Photograph 251 Six Corners - Milwaukee Avenue, Irving Park Road, Cicero Avenue, aerial view from a kite, 1909
Box 6 Photograph 252 Six Corners - Milwaukee Avenue, Irving Park Road, Cicero Avenue, southeast corner, 1912
Box 6 Photograph 253 Six Corners - Milwaukee Avenue, Irving Park Road, Cicero Avenue, southeast on Milwaukee Avenue, undated
Box 6 Photograph 254 Six Corners - Milwaukee Avenue, Irving Park Road, Cicero Avenue, northwest corner, 1912
Box 6 Photograph 255 Six Corners - Milwaukee Avenue, Irving Park Road, Cicero Avenue, northwest on Milwaukee Avenue, 1934
Box 6 Photograph 256 Six Corners - Milwaukee Avenue, Irving Park Road, Cicero Avenue, northwest on Milwaukee Avenue, 1910
Box 11 Photograph 465 Six Corners - west side of Cicero Avenue, south side of Irving Park Orad, 1912
Box 11 Photograph 466 Six Corners, east side of Cicero Avenue, south side of Irving Park Road, 1912
Box 2 Photograph 4 State Street, south from Lake Street, 1934
Box 4 Photograph 191 State Street and Washington Boulevard, 1893
Box 8 Photograph 335 State Street, downtown, winter, 1890
Box 4 Photograph 190 Stony Island Avenue, looking west at Midway Plaisance, 1936
Box 11 Photograph 440 Summerdale and Clark, looking west, 1880
Box 2 Photograph 111 Union Avenue, south from 110th Street, 1886
Box 5 Photograph 209 South Water Street, 1834 illustration drawn by Wm. H. Gale, undated
Box 5 Photograph 234 Western and Devon Avenues, looking west, 1914
Box 5 Photograph 235 Western and Devon Avenues, looking west, 1934
Box 5 Photograph 236 Western and Devon Avenues, looking north, 1914
Box 5 Photograph 237 Western and Devon Avenues, looking north, 1934

Series 6: Transportation, 1866-1940, undated

Arrangement

Series 6 is arranged by alphabetically by type of transportation and then alphabetically within type.

Box 12 Photographs 477-479, 482-490 Bridges - Ashland Avenue Bridge, opening, parade (11), 1936 August 20
Box 12 Photographs 480-481 Bridges - Ashland Avenue Bridge, opening, ribbon-cutting (2), 1936
Box 8 Photograph 333 Mass Transit - Blue Island Avenue, cable train depot, 1895
Box 9 Photograph 375 Mass Transit - Chicago & [Illinois] Southern [Railroad] Co., combination car, circa 1907
Box 8 Photograph 346 Mass Transit - Chicago City Railway Co., [opening], 1898? November 17
Box 8 Photograph 352 Mass Transit - Chicago City Railway Co., grip car showing cable in grip as when drawing a train, circa 1882
Box 9 Photograph 373 Mass Transit - Chicago City Railway Co., mail car, circa 1895
Box 9 Photograph 372 Mass Transit - Chicago City Railway Co., party car, circa 1895
Box 12 Photograph 468 Mass Transit - Chicago City Railway Co., Rosenwald Museum cars from 1859 and 1882, 1938
Box 12 Photograph 469 Mass Transit - Chicago City Railway Co., Rosenwald Museum cars from 1859 and 1882, 1938
Box 11 Photograph 437 Mass Transit - Chicago Motor Bus Co., coach no. 112, circa 1925
Box 9 Photographs 365-368 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, Archer-Rockwell bus no. 404 (4), 1935
Box 8 Photograph 340 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, car no. 3333, Clark Street and Lincoln Park, 1935
Box 8 Photograph 350 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, car no. 4001, Clark and Washington Streets, 1934
Box 8 Photograph 353 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, car no. 4001 pulling into 18th Street Station near Soldier Field, 1935
Box 8 Photograph 351 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, car no. 4001, track brake raising mechanism, 1934
Box 8 Photograph 348 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, car no. 7001, Clark-Dewey bus, 1934
Box 8 Photograph 349 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, car no. 7001, hydraulic brake cylinders, 1934
Box 9 Photograph 364 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, Central-Lexington bus no. 85, 1935
Box 4 Photograph 199 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, Central-Lexington bus, 1936
Box 4 Photographs 181-183, 185-187 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, Century of Progress, 18th Street stop, (6), 1934
Box 4 Photograph 184 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, Century of Progress, 23rd Street stop, 1934
Box 8 Photograph 347 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, Clark Street bus at Adams, no. 22, 1934
Box 8 Photograph 339 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, Diversey Avenue Trolley Line, opening, 1930 April 16
Box 10 Photograph 407 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, Foster-Kimball bus opening, with celebration advertisement, 1937 June 30
Box 10 Photograph 408 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, Foster-Kimball bus opening, speakers’ platform, 1937
Box 10 Photographs 409-410 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, Foster-Kimball bus opening, ribbon-cutting (2), 1937
Box 10 Photographs 411-413 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, Foster-Kimball bus opening, crowd scenes (3), 1937
Box 10 Photograph 414 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, Foster-Kimball bus opening, parade, 1937
Box 10 Photograph 415 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, Foster-Kimball bus opening, buses lined up for first ride, 1937
Box 10 Photographs 416-417 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, Foster-Kimball bus opening, bus no. 529, first official ride (2), 1937
Box 12 Photographs 491-492 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, Halsted Street bus extension, ribbon-cutting with news clippings (2), 1938
Box 12 Photographs 493-494 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, Halsted Streets bus extension, parade (2), 1938
Box 12 Photograph 495 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, Halsted Streets bus extension, dignitaries, 1938
Box 9 Photograph 379 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, Higgins Road/Northwest Highway opening, float of Norwood Crusaders, 1935
Box 9 Photographs 380-381 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, Higgins Road/Northwest Highway opening, Austin-Higgins Improvement Group, parade (2), 1935
Box 9 Photographs 382-384 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, Higgins Road/Northwest Highway opening, Thomas J. Bowler, ribbon-cutting (3), 1935
Box 9 Photograph 369 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, Irving Park-Neenah bus extension opening, undated
Box 10 Photographs 423-424 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, Laramie-Harrison opening (2), 1937
Box 8 Photograph 358 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, Madison and Austin Car Line, streetcar no. 7002, 1936
Box 8 Photograph 359 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, Madison and Austin Car Line, streetcar no. 7002, driver in seat of new streetcar, 1936
Box 8 Photograph 360 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, Madison and Austin Car Line, cash box, 1936
Box 9 Photograph 361 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, Madison and Austin Car Line, streetcar no. 7002, register (fare was 7 cents), 1936
Box 8 Photograph 337 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, Madison Street, car no. 4006, 1936
Box 9 Photographs 397-399 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, Madison Street opening, 4100 block of W. Madison Street (3), 1936
Box 10 Photograph 404 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, Madison Street opening, 4100 block of W. Madison Street, 1936
Box 9 Photograph 385 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, Madison Street opening, car no. 7002, interior lunch service, 1936
Box 10 Photograph 401 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, Madison Street, opening, celebratory crowd, 1936
Box 10 Photograph 402 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, Madison Street opening, dedication decorations at 5700 block of W. Madison Street, 1936
Box 9 Photograph 388 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, Madison Street opening, dinner, 1936
Box 9 Photograph 394 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, Madison Street opening, exterior of car no. 7003, 1936
Box 9 Photograph 393 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, Madison Street opening, interior of 1859 car, 1936
Box 9 Photograph 395 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, Madison Street opening, interior of car no. 7003, 1936
Box 9 Photograph 389 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, Madison Street opening, parade line-up, Kedzie Depot yard, 1936
Box 9 Photograph 391 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, Madison Street opening, parade with Milwaukee Avenue bus used in 1875, 1936
Box 9 Photograph 392 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, Madison Street opening, parade with North Chicago Street Railroad used in 1859, 1936
Box 9 Photograph 390 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, Madison Street opening, ribbon-cutting, 1936
Box 9 Photograph 387 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, Madison Street opening, Springfield Car House, dignitaries, 1936
Box 9 Photograph 386 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, Madison Street opening, Springfield Car House, women’s clubs’ representatives, 1936
Box 10 Photograph 400 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, Madison Street opening, southwest corner of Madison Street and Austin Boulevard, 1936
Box 10 Photograph 403 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, Madison Street opening, “Welcome” banners at Austin Restaurant, U. S. Barber Shop, 5946 and 5948 W. Madison Street, 1936
Box 9 Photograph 396 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, Madison Street, opening, young women on car in evening dress, 1936
Box 8 Photographs 322, 324 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, North Austin/Austin Boulevard trolley opening [missing] (2), 1931
Box 7 Photograph 316 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, North Austin/Austin Boulevard trolley opening, Austin Methodist Church dinner, speakers’ table, 1931
Box 7 Photograph 319 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, North Austin/Austin Boulevard trolley opening, celebration committee, 1931
Box 7 Photograph 318 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, North Austin/Austin Boulevard trolley opening, Chicago West Town Chamber of Commerce women, 1931
Box 7 Photograph 317 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, North Austin/Austin Boulevard trolley opening, dinner participants, 1931
Box 8 Photograph 326 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, North Austin/Austin Boulevard trolley opening, parade with civic leaders in front of 1858 car, 1931
Box 8 Photograph 325 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, North Austin/Austin Boulevard trolley opening, parade with North Chicago Line car of 1858, 1931
Box 8 Photograph 323 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, North Austin/Austin Boulevard trolley opening, ribbon-cutting, 1931
Box 7 Photograph 320 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, North Austin/Austin Boulevard trolley opening, ribbon-cutting with Willis McFeeley, President of Oak Park, 1931
Box 8 Photograph 321 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, North Austin/Austin Boulevard trolley opening, ribbon-cutting with Willis McFeeley, President of Oak Park, 1931
Box 8 Photograph 327 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, North Austin Car Line extension, at Narragansett Avenue, 1931 November 28
Box 11 Photograph 434 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, Ogden Avenue bus opening, celebration display in Wiebolt’s window, Monroe Street, 1938
Box 10 Photographs 427, 429 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, Ogden Avenue bus opening, celebrants ready to ride bus (2), 1938
Box 10 Photographs 431-432 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, Ogden Avenue bus opening, crowd (2), 1938
Box 11 Photograph 433 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, Ogden Avenue bus opening, miniature goat-driven bus advertising the Billy Goat Inn (1855 W. Madison), 1938
Box 11 Photograph 435 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, Ogden Avenue bus opening, Ogden-Clark bus, 1938
Box 10 Photograph 430 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, Ogden Avenue bus opening, ribbon-cutting at Clark Street, 1938
Box 10 Photographs 425-426 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, Ogden Avenue bus opening, ribbon-cutting at Ogden Avenue and Madison Street with news clippings (2), 1938 January 16
Box 10 Photograph 428 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, Ogden Avenue bus opening, West Side Traffic and Transportation Association, West Town Chamber of Commerce, 1938
Box 10 Photograph 418 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, Pulaski Road and 31st Street Route opening, Crawford Business Men’s League, Mayor Kelly making speech, 1937 August 8
Box 10 Photographs 419-420 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, Pulaski Road and 31st Street Route opening, dignitaries (2), 1937
Box 10 Photograph 422 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, Pulaski Road and 31st Street Route opening, parade, 1937
Box 10 Photograph 421 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, Pulaski Road and 31st Street Route opening, ribbon-cutting, 1937
Box 7 Photograph 307 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, trolley dedication, Chicago Surface Lines executives, 1930
Box 7 Photograph 310 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, trolley dedication, dignitaries, 1930
Box 7 Photograph 311 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, trolley dedication, Garfield Park Businessmen’s Club, 1930
Box 7 Photograph 305 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, trolley dedication, group of 20 women, 1930
Box 7 Photograph 306 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, trolley dedication, group of 19 men, 1930
Box 7 Photograph 312 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, trolley dedication, looking south across Fulton Street, 1930
Box 7 Photograph 309 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, trolley dedication, no. 76, looking north on Central Avenue, 1930
Box 7 Photograph 308 Mass Transit - Chicago Surface Lines, trolley dedication, no. 76 with Mark Fisher and Walter Becker, 1930
Box 4 Photographs 193-194 Mass Transit - Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), Clybourn Avenue subway construction (2), 1940
Box 8 Photograph 336 Mass Transit - Chicago Union Traction Co., 12th Street and Kedzie, summer car, 1896
Box 9 Photograph 378 Mass Transit - Chicago Union Traction Co./Compressed Air Motor Co. cars, 1890
Box 9 Photograph 377 Mass Transit - Chicago Union Traction Co., summer car 5977, circa 1900
Box 9 Photograph 374 Mass Transit - G.C. Kuhlman Car Co., Cleveland, Ohio, funeral car, circa 1870
Box 8 Photographs 328-329 Mass Transit - Milwaukee Avenue horse-drawn bus used in 1874 (2), undated
Box 11 Photograph 438 Mass Transit - North Chicago Street Railroad Company, car 8, built in 1859, circa 1930
Box 8 Photograph 334 Mass Transit - North Chicago Street Railroad Company, car 103, first electric car on north side, circa 1896
Box 9 Photograph 370 Mass Transit - North Chicago Street Railroad Company, car 769, Clybourn Avenue, circa 1886-1899
Box 8 Photographs 354-356 Mass Transit - Pullman’s Palace Car Company, Dorchester-63rd Street, streetcar (3), 1934
Box 9 Photograph 362 Mass Transit - Pullman’s Palace Car Company, Dorchester-63rd Street, streetcar with four men, 1934
Box 8 Photograph 357 Mass Transit - Pullman’s Palace Car Company, driver’s seat and instrument panel of car, 1934
Box 9 Photograph 371 Mass Transit - Pullman’s Palace Car Company, “Pullman Vestibule,” circa 1897
Box 11 Photograph 436 Mass Transit - San Francisco, California Street, cable car, 1910
Box 9 Photograph 363 Mass Transit - Streetcar snow sweeper, Milwaukee Avenue (?), 1935
Box 4 Photograph 195 Mass Transit - traffic lights control box, 1940
Box 8 Photographs 341-345 Mass Transit - West Chicago Street Railroad Company, car 4, (operated in 1896), interior and exterior views (5), 1936, undated
Box 8 Photograph 332 Mass Transit - West Chicago Street Railroad Company, Madison Street cable train, circa 1890
Box 8 Photograph 331 Mass Transit - West Division Railway Co., horse-drawn car, 1890
Box 9 Photograph 376 Englewood and Chicago Railroad, car 6, circa 1896
Box 7 Photograph 298 Railroad - Chicago, Harlem, & Batavia Railway, station at Madison and Crawford Avenues, 1887
Box 12 Photograph 474 Wagon - Conestoga wagon from 1812, exhibit item, undated
Box 4 Photograph 192 Water - “City of Grand Rapids,” steamship at Navy Pier, 1940
Box 5 Photograph 210 Water - Chicago River, 1866
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