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

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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Madison St., east toward the Lake from State St., Chicago, Ill. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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

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Looking east from State Street, this stereograph follows Madison Street as it runs down toward Lake Michigan, a view from the busy center of the city's downtown grid. The card carries a copyright notice in the name of H.C. White, a firm known for producing large numbers of stereoviews in the early twentieth century. Stereo cards like this were meant to be seen through a stereoscope, which fused two slightly offset photographs into a single image with apparent depth, so street scenes felt close enough to step into. The date of about 1905 and the location details come from the original caption card and have not been independently verified.

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 scan1,356 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-128059

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