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Madison St., east toward the Lake from State St., Chicago, Ill. – Antique Wall Art

Madison St., east toward the Lake from State St., Chicago, Ill., c1905. — historic photograph
Madison St., east toward the Lake from State St., Chicago, Ill., 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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This historic photograph of Madison St., east toward the Lake from State St., Chicago, Ill. brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Madison St., east toward the Lake from State St., Chicago, Ill.

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Looking east along Madison Street from State Street, this stereograph shows a Chicago street of the early 1900s, when the Loop was filling with multistory commercial buildings and the streetcar lines carried heavy foot traffic. Stereo views like this one were sold in pairs of nearly identical images, and this card was copyrighted by H.C. White, a firm that produced many such scenes of American cities for home parlor viewers. The record notes that its date and details come from the original caption card and have not been independently verified, so the exact year is best read as approximate, around 1905.

Created / publishedc1905.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
NotesStereo copyrighted by H.C. White. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,277 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-105992

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