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Looking north on State St., Chicago, Ill. – Vintage Wall Art

Looking north on State St., Chicago, Ill., 1899 — historic photograph
Looking north on State St., Chicago, Ill., 1899. 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 rare historic photograph captures Looking north on State St., Chicago, Ill. in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Looking north on State St., Chicago, Ill.

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Looking north up State Street in Chicago, this 1899 stereograph captures one of the city's busiest commercial thoroughfares at the turn of the century. Stereo views like this one were made to be seen through a hand viewer, with two nearly identical exposures fused into a single three-dimensional scene, so street scenes such as this gave armchair travelers a sense of being on the sidewalk themselves. The card was published by Ingersoll, a firm known in the period for distributing views of American cities and landmarks. Because the caption data on the card has not been independently verified, the specific details of the scene are best read alongside the period's broader record of Chicago street life.

Created / published1899
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
NotesStereo published by Ingersoll. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,143 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-105987

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