Chicago Board of Trade, Illinois, 1900 – Historic Photo Reproduction
(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 image captures Chicago Board of Trade, Illinois, 1900 in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: An Instantaneous flash picture of the Chicago Board of Trade in session
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Chicago Board of Trade, Illinois, 1900
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Chicago in 1900 was the grain and livestock capital of the interior, and the Board of Trade on LaSalle Street was where wheat, corn, and oats prices were set for farms across the Midwest. The exchange had been founded in 1848, and its trading floor depended on railroads that converged on the city from every direction. Chicago counted about 1.7 million residents at the census that year, many of them immigrants working in the stockyards, lumber yards, and freight houses. Earlier in 1900 the Sanitary and Ship Canal opened, reversing the Chicago River so that sewage flowed away from Lake Michigan's drinking water. Wealth on the financial streets stood only blocks from crowded tenements.
| Created / published | 1900 |
|---|---|
| Creator | lawrence, geo. r. (george r.) |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Illinois |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 4,940 × 3,659 px · prints to 16 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | An Instantaneous flash picture of the Chicago Board of Trade in session |
| Reference | IL Chicago Board of Trade 1900 |
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