My Collection : Vintage Lake View part II

From Postcards to Photos 

to Everything Else - Part Two
This post has 5 sub-posts:
1) Vintage Matchbooks
2) Lake View High Yearbooks
(with a link to Facebook album)
3) Lincoln Park, the park
4) Vintage Dish Plates

5) Postcards of Lake Shore Drive

This is the second of five posts on my private collection. The first post is in Part I. The third and fourth posts are called Vintage Wrigley Field Part I & Part II. The images in this particular blog post are of Lincoln Park, the park, the Lake View High School yearbooks from 1916 to 1974 that includes two student handbooks of 1933 and 1943. The pages of each yearbook were selective due to time and space. The next post is called 

Warner Printing Collection which is assortment of Lake View businesses from 1929 to 1935 - Warner Printing's clients, mostly office & promotional supplies.

Vintage Matchbooks:

This is a collection of matchbooks of businesses 
that was once located in old Lake View with a 

An online article from CBC Radio called

Striking Images: Matchbook Advertising

‘There was a time when the humble matchbook was the top advertising medium in North America. They were handy, colorful, cheap and even a moderate smoker would be exposed to the advertising over 20 times a day. Matchbook advertising pre-dated radio, and was embraced by almost every industry; from big beer and tobacco companies, to the war effort, to Hollywood, to the smallest Mom & Pop businesses, and [sports], matchbook advertising was effective and affordable for everyone. [It is estimated that] up to eight additional people were exposed to a single matchbook. They get borrowed and shared. Every time a matchbook got pulled out of a pocket, the owner was reminded of the bounty.'      

Rutter Coal Company

and
Lake View Recreation

reverse side

Reed's Candy Company

and

Isbell's Magic Bar & Restaurant

reverse side

Midget Bar

and
Carl's Swanson's Tavern

reverse side

Vanity Fair

(formerly Bismarck Gardens)

and

Louie's Service

reverse side

Irving-Southport Garage

and

Merry Gardens Ballroom

reverse side

Lake View Tavern

and
J.B.'s Bleachers Tavern
 (now Murphy's Bleachers)

reverse side

Old Hickory Inn

and
Bryson's Lunch

reverse side

Biastett's Cocktail Lounge

and

Aquarium Cafe

reverse side

Marigold Arcade

 reverse side

 inside cut-out

 another look at it

Frank Helsing's [Restaurant]

Marigold Car Service

Victorian House Restaurant

turned ...

reverse side

Cornelia Lounge & Restaurant
Clubland at the Vic Theater

reverse side

Bert Weinman Ford

Tut's Chicago

 a music venue

Marigold Gardens

former Bismarck Gardens

promoting a German-American Chorus

Buckingham Theatre

Vanity Fair/Grill

once known as Bismarck Gardens

and Marigold Gardens

Lake View Trust & Savings

Surf Laundry

Melrose Beauty Shop

Cubs Grill
currently The Cubbie Bear

The Rienza Hotel

an apartment hotel

Aldine Barber Shop

Ted's Famous Door

 reverse

Jack's on Halsted

Illinois Masonic Hospital

Christopher Street

The Loading Dock 

Ash Manor

  Sidetracks

Ann Sather

their second location

Ricky's

Belmont Club

Cornelia Tavern

Leona's Restaurant

and their first location ....

Melrose Restaurant/Grill & Bakery 

two locations

The Age of the Matchbooks

In order to have some idea of the age of a matchbook one 

needs to understand the Chicago telephone numbering evolution 

via the website 

The Local High Schools in the Area:

Lake View Institute 1917
All Girl's High School
once located at 442 W Wellington est. 1891
The school apparent initial location was 1844 Briar Place in 1902 with a post 1909 address of 516 Briar Place

selected pages 

The Lake View High School Yearbooks

I am in the process of photo-coping selective pages 

of each yearbook to my Facebook page as an album and linking the each FB album to date of that yearbook on here
I begin with ...
1907

1916-1918

(Facebook Album - selected pages)
1916

 

 1917

1918

1921
(Facebook Album)
January Semester

1921

June Semester

1925

1926

1927

 1928 January Semester

1928 June Semester

(soft cover)

Due to the rapid expansion of the student population some elementary schools were used to compensate

 Greeley Satellite

Ravenswood Satellite

1931

1932

1933

1934

1935

 1936

1937

1938

1940 

1941

1943

1944

1945

1946

1947

1949
 75th Anniversary Book

1951

 1952

1953

1955

 1956

1957

 1958

1961

1967

1968

1974 
100th Anniversary Book

Lake View High Student Handbooks
(selected pages)

1925

1933

1943

The Red & White Monthly's:
(selected pages)

1902 November

1902 December

1903 January

1903 February

1903 March

1903 May

1903 June

1903 October

1903 Christmas Issue 

1917 April

1918 March

1933 March
32 pages

Lake View High School Pins

1932 Girl's Physical Effiency Test and

1934  Physical Effiency Test 

 Lincoln Park, the park 

Vintage Postcards:

The Lake View Connection

Most the postcards date between the 1890's to 1910's during a time when the property taxpayers & bondholders of Lake View Township/City & North Chicago Township had influence in the administration of the park and paid for it from 1870 until the

turn of the 20th century. Use the link above to explore the link  between old Lake View and this famous park along the lake.

a 11x17 page from Harper's Weekly in 1887

zoomed sections below

Stereograph Cards

 the lagoons were apparently once referred to as the 'canal'

 What is a stereograph like the one above?

zoomed from above

A Stereograph Viewer

refurbished 
The metal section is probably original and the wooden section had to have been refinished

 the triangular piece is the handle laid in place

the Ebay seller photo of the handle extended
and the manufacturer was called Sun Sculpture

Regular Size Postcards

Winter Scenes

Lincoln Park Conservatory

all part of my personal collection

a stereograph image - front and back

scene of garden from the Palm House-Conservatory

The original name of the Conservatory was the Palm House

men in the the Palm House

this photo looking south of the Palm House which was the original name of the current conservatory building 

the second building that was once called the Palm House

Lincoln Park Zoo

from 1890's to about 1910ish

'The zoo was founded in 1868, when the Lincoln Park Commissioners were given a gift of a pair of swans by Central Park's Board of Commissioners in New York City. Other animals were soon donated to the park, including, a puma, two elk, three wolves, four eagles, & eight peacocks. In 1874, a bear cub from the Philadelphia Zoo was the first animal purchased by the zoo. The bear became quite adept at escaping from its home and could frequently be found roaming Lincoln Park at night. In 1884, reportedly the first American bison born in captivity was born at the Lincoln Park Zoo. At this time, the species had almost been hunted to extinction in the wild so in 1896, the United States government bought one bull and seven cows from the Zoo's bison herd to send to Yellowstone National Park to assist in the species' revival.' - Wikipedia

is actually a Axis Deer (also known as Chital) from India according to Peter Boul, a member of the Ravenswood-Lake View Historical Association. He states that the author Robert May, the author of the book 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer', observed them at Lincoln Park zoo and was inspired to write the song we know today.

The Monuments of Lincoln Park:

11x17 size page is from Chicago Inter Ocean magazine

 The Abraham Lincoln Monument

 

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Monument 

The Alarm

originally called The Indian Monument

another view of it

Signal of Peace

 Dolphin Fountain

Shakespeare Monument

The Eugene Field Monument

 Ulysses S. Grant Monument

Hans Christian Andersen Monument 
 

 Robert Cavelier de LaSalle Monument

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Monument

Robert Cavelier de LaSalle Monument

at another angle

The monuments would be surrounded by a path

 for walkers and horse & carriage

Benjamin Franklin Monument

 Kwa Kwa Rolas
(Addison Street Totem Pole)

The Missing Monuments of Lincoln Park:

Carl von Linné Monument

relocated to Midway Plaisance in 1976 

The Santiago Cuba Cannon

Beethoven

A List of lost/removed monuments
according to 'Giants at the Park'

image - Asian Pacific American Advocates/OCA-California 

Doughboy Memorial

 part of my personal collection

and this unidentified monument ...
image - 'Lincoln Park 1899'

The Park's 'High Bridge'
nicknamed The Suicide Bridge

1894 -1919

This bridge was once located a few blocks south of Fullerton Avenue. By the 1910's the High Bridge earned a new infamous name of 'Suicide Bridge' Due to the high volume of lives lost per week the bridge was demolished in 1909

View of the Boardwalk with Horse & Carriage

View of Lake Shore Drive 

from the High Bridge

In the 19th century this road was called

'Breakwater and Carriage Drive' 

A View of the High Bridge from the lake side of it

View of the Lagoon from the High Bridge

now called as the South Pond

Just Passing Though

A Lake Excursion from the Park

 Once located between of North Avenue & Fullerton

Its probable location ...
(see pier to the right)

A Good Chicago Parks Resource
part of my collection

this reprint was original authored 
by Andreas Simon in 1893

The Postcards of
Street-End Beaches & Harbors:

 Fullerton Avenue Bathing Beach

only for children and their mothers

Diversey Avenue Bathing Beach

the entrance to Diversey Harbor

Clarendon Municipal Bathing Beach

Wilson Avenue Bathing Beach 

This was a members only beach, hence private. A wall separated this beach from the Clarendon Municipal 

Montrose-Wilson Bathing Beach

Edgewater Beach & Hotel 

The Daily News Sanitarium

 Established in 1887 in the Township of Lake View north of the existing park, Lincoln Park, just north of Fullerton Avenue

The Harbors to the South & North:

Diversey Harbor

Montrose Harbor

a view of Montrose Harbor from Irving Park Road

The Diversey Avenue Golf Course

Vintage Plates:
A Belmont Avenue Store

a turn of late 19th or early 20th century
 the post 1909 address was 1120 W Belmont Avenue

A Ravenswood Grocer
District of Lake View pre -1909

Postcards of Lake Shore Drive

Their was a gravel Lake Shore Drive within the park 

and a concrete one along the lake from Oak Street 

to the south end of Lincoln Park 

Once called Sheridan Road from Belmont to Grace now called inner Lake Shore Drive - view south from Grace

The Research of the Stereo-view Card
by the seller on Ebay
this card is part of my collection

"Edward Lovejoy and Henry Foster were only in business as a united front until around 1878. with first noted record of registration together showing up in 1866 (although they very well may have been together before this). By 1880 Lovejoy was registering on his own; although some stereos dated during the first few years of the 1880's have the Lovejoy & Foster label. However, it is thought the photos were actually taken a few years earlier and were only being sold this way due to licensing. Foster may not have even ever taken a photo himself actually. This is on yellow card, which usually dates from 1861-1870 and has rounded corners which usually dates from 1868-1890; although these are not hard and fast, just the traditional dates that the vast majority out there fall into. Some rounded corners are earlier and later and yellow does show up later, normally old new stock, and in some respects earlier. The same goes true for the normal dates and colors for flat mount and curved mount and some flat mounts have curved with age and some originally had a slight curve, but do not fall into curved. Also, the print type also helps to narrow down dates; but in this case these types were done at varying points for the duration of stereoview manufacturing. Anyways, after researching it this way I began to look at photos of the park from this time period and got conflicting dates, so I finally contacted an couple of historical societies in the area and got a date from them as the last half of the 1860's and late 1860's to early 1870's; so I reverted back to the traditional dates of the stereo construction to narrow down the dates to the 1860's, second half. Sometimes with photos I have to narrow it down in a few ways and rely on others, who have info about the area or the subject. If this decade is in correct, I would love to know."

Cheers,

Lee & Lynn

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