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Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Ill. – Antique Print

Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Ill., 1905 Nov. 22, c1905. — historic photograph
Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Ill., 1905 Nov. 22, c1905.. Historic photograph from the Chicago collection.

(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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Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Ill. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Lake Shore Drive, the lakefront boulevard running along Lake Michigan, is the particular subject here, captured on a large 8 x 10 inch glass negative dated November 22, 1905. The Detroit Publishing Company, which made tens of thousands of views of American cities, towns and scenery in the early twentieth century, produced this image, and the glass plate survives in the Library of Congress's collection. The drive was a showpiece of the city's parks and lakefront improvements, where residents went to see the water and the skyline. Plates like this one, which came to the Library through a 1949 gift from the State Historical Society of Colorado, give a clear record of how Chicago presented its shoreline a century ago.

Created / published1905 Nov. 22, c1905.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesCorresponding glass transparency (same series code) available on videodisc frame 1A-30410. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 018845. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsStreets.United States--Illinois--Chicago.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 796 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-62322

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