Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois, 1906 – Historic Photo Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois, 1906. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Grant Park, Chicago
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Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois, 1906
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Grant Park, on Chicago's lakefront, was still a young public space in 1906, built largely on land filled in from Lake Michigan and renamed for Ulysses S. Grant only a few years earlier. Chicago was then one of the country's great rail and freight centers, and its stockyards, grain elevators, and factories drew workers from across Europe and the rural Midwest. The park's edge was still crossed by Illinois Central tracks, a reminder that the railroad and the city's commercial life pressed hard against the public lakefront. Residents who walked its paths along Michigan Avenue would have known it as a place of open air and lake breezes in a city whose growth was measured in new buildings, new neighborhoods, and rising population every year.
| Created / published | 1906 |
|---|---|
| Creator | geo. r. lawrence co. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Illinois |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 2,608 px · prints to 18 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Grant Park, Chicago |
| Reference | IL Grant Park, Chicago 1906 |
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