Early 20th Century Wing: Chicago Street Scenes
This exhibit is sorted alphabetically by street name (i.e. State Street cards are together), then by postmark date when possible. There are more postcards of Chicago street scenes in the "I WILL" Galleries.

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Clark Street, North from Lake Street, Chicago - "Elite" # 231
Suhling & Koehn Co., Pub., Chicago - <Germany> - pm 1907

Entrance to Grand Boulevard at 35th Street, Chicago - # 52
Unknown Publisher - pm 1911

Haymarket Square, Chicago - # 97
M. Glucklich, Chicago

Haymarket Square, Chicago - # 110
Unknown Publisher - pm 1911

Lake Drive, Lincoln Park, Chicago, ILL - # 7475
Detroit Photographic Co. - pm 1905

Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, ILL - # 1561
Souvenir Post Card Co., New York and Berlin
note: Glitter Applied by Manufacturer

Lake Shore Drive, Chicago - # 714
V.O. Hammon Pub. Co., Chicago - pm 1910

Lake Shore Drive, Lincoln Park, Chicago - # 284
Max Rigot Selling Co. Chicago ©1911 - pm 1919

Lake Shore Drive, North from Drake Hotel, Chicago - # 281
Max Rigot Selling Co. Chicago ©1911 - pm 1924

Lake Shore Drive and Oak Street Beach, Chicago - # 219
© Max Rigot

Outer Drive (Lake Shore Drive) Link Bridge and Skyline, Chicago - # 267
Max Rigot Selling Agency. Chicago

La Salle Street, Chicago (Illinois Trust & Savings Bank at Right) - # 1732
V.O. Hammon Pub. Co., Chicago - pm 1912

Looking Down La Salle Street, Chicago (Chicago Board of Trade) - # 146
Curt Teich & Co., Inc. - ca. 1930

Michigan Boulevard, Chicago
Unknown Publisher

Michigan Avenue Opposite Grant Park, Chicago - # 100
Unknown Publisher

Michigan Avenue, Chicago - # 568
Unknown Publisher - pm 1912

Michigan Avenue, Showing Crane Building, Congress Hotel
and Annex and Auditorium, Chicago - # 221
Max Rigot Selling Co. Chicago - pm 1916

Michigan Avenue, North from Blackstone Hotel, Chicago - # 354
Max Rigot Selling Co. Chicago - pm 1919
note: Double Strike Print on back description.

Skyline of Chicago from Grant Park - # 194
Genuine Curteich, Chicago

Michigan Boulevard, Looking North, Seen from Aeroplane. Chicago - # 252
Max Rigot Selling Co. Chicago

Aero View of Michigan Avenue Showing Wrigley, Tribune Tower and London Accident Insurance Building, Chicago - # 209
Gerson Bros., Chicago - pm 1925

South Michigan Avenue Taken from Grant Park, Chicago - # 74256
Chas. Levy Circulating Co., Chicago

Water Tower and Palmolive Building, Upper Michigan Avenue, Chicago - # 313
Max Rigot Selling Co. Chicago

Alexander McKinlock Memorial Campus, Northwestern University, Chicago - #514
Gerson Bros., Chicago

Street Scene South Water Street, Chicago - Empire Art Series
Unknown Publisher - pm 1909

South Water Street, Chicago - # 508
V.O. Hammon Pub. Co., Chicago - pm 1912

State Street, Chicago - # 684
H.C. Leighton Co. Portland, Maine - <Germany>

Corner of State and Madison Streets, Looking North, Chicago - # 1569
Souvenir Post Card Co., New York - pm ca.1900

State and Madison Streets, Chicago - # 5394
© E. Phillips 1907 - pm 1907

State Street, North of Adams Street, Chicago - # 1648
A.C. Rosselman & Co., New York -  <Germany>

State Street, North from Madison, Chicago
Unknown Publisher - pm 1911

State Street, Chicago - # 175
V.O. Hammon Pub. Co., Chicago - pm 1911

State Street South from Randolph Street, Chicago - # 800
V.O. Hammon Pub. Co., Chicago

State Street Looking North from Washington Street Showing
Marshall Field & Co. Building, Masonic Temple, Chicago - # 456
Franklin Post Card Co. Chicago - pm 1913

Madison and State Street, Chicago - # 1895
Gerson Bros., Chicago - pm 1914

State Street in Carnival Attire, Chicago - # 539C
Unknown Publisher - pm 1915

State Street, Looking North from Van Buren Street, Chicago - # 359
Max Rigot Selling Co. Chicago - pm 1918

State and Washington Streets, Chicago - # 206
Max Rigot Selling Co., Chicago

The Ghetto, Chicago - # 700
V.O. Hammon Pub. Co., Chicago

Midway and University of Chicago - # 244
Franklin Post Card Co., Chicago

Wabash Avenue North from Monroe Street, Chicago - # 507
V.O. Hammon Pub. Co., Chicago

Wacker Drive Looking Southwest, Chicago - # 508
Gerson Bros., Chicago

New Gateway to Greater Chicago, Chicago - # 225
Max Rigot Selling Co., Chicago - ca. 1929

Chicago - City of Towers - # 216
© Max Rigot - pm 1946

Wacker Drive Taken from Merchandise Mart Looking South, Chicago - # 8
Tichnor Bros., Inc., Boston, Mass. - pm 1946

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