Birdseye view of Chicago, Illinois, 1913 – Vintage Photo 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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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Birdseye view of Chicago, Illinois, 1913. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Birdseye view of Chicago
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Birdseye view of Chicago, Illinois, 1913
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Chicago in 1913 was the rail and meatpacking center of the American interior, with the Union Stockyards on the South Side and freight lines converging on the Loop from every direction. The city had grown past two million residents, and its population was tied to a huge foreign-born working class living in neighborhoods packed around the stockyards, mills, and lumber yards along the river. Downtown, the Loop was still crowded with office towers, department stores, and the elevated railway loops that gave the district its name. Chicago had rebuilt after the 1871 fire on a grand scale, and by the 1910s its civic leaders were debating parks, lakefront development, and the reversal of the Chicago River, which had been completed only a few years earlier.
| Created / published | 1913 |
|---|---|
| Creator | taylor, j. w. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Illinois |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 808 px · prints to 18 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Birdseye view of Chicago |
| Reference | IL Birdseye view of Chicago 1913 |
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