Chicagos water front, Illinois, 1913 – Historic Photograph Print
(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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Chicagos water front, Illinois, 1913 comes to life in this historic image, 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.
Library of Congress record: Chicago's water front
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Chicagos water front, Illinois, 1913
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Chicago's waterfront in 1913 still ran on the rhythm of freight, with lake boats, river tugs, and horse-drawn drays competing for space along the piers and slips. The city had adopted Daniel Burnham's Plan of Chicago in 1909, which called for a continuous string of lakefront parks and a consolidated rail system, and reformers were already pressing to turn the shoreline's rail yards and warehouses into public open ground. That same year Illinois lawmakers passed a law letting women vote in presidential elections and in some local contests, a change that drew large crowds to suffrage meetings in the Loop. Many dockworkers and teamsters who labored along these wharves lived in crowded immigrant wards a short walk away, where Polish, Italian, and Bohemian families packed into tenements near the river.
| Created / published | 1913 |
|---|---|
| Creator | kaufmann, weimer & fabry co. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Illinois |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,662 px · prints to 18 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Chicago's water front |
| Reference | IL Chicagos water front 1913 |
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