From Postcards to Photos
to Everything Else - Part Two
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 supplies.
Vintage Matchbooks
This is a collection of matchbooks of businesses
once located in old Lake View.
once located in old Lake View.
reverse side
reverse side
reverse side
reverse side
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.
I begin with ...
I begin with ...
1916-1918
(Facebook Album - selected pages)
1916
Lake View High Student Handbooks
(selected pages)
1933
1943
Winter Scenes
this photo looking south of the Palm House which was the original name of the current conservatory building
Lincoln Park Zoo
The Monuments of Lincoln Park
Hans Christian Andersen Monument
The Missing Monuments of Lincoln Park
'The Santiago Cuba Cannon'
View of the Lagoon from the High Bridge
Excursion off the Lakefront
(Facebook Album - selected pages)
1916
1940
1941
1943
1944
1945
1946
1956
1957
1958
1967
1974
100th Anniversary Book
100th Anniversary Book
(selected pages)
1933
1943
Red & White [Quarterly]:
I believe these types of books were published quarterly
(selected pages)
1917 April
1918 March
1933 March
32 pages
Lincoln Park Postcards:
The Lake View Connection
I believe these types of books were published quarterly
(selected pages)
1917 April
1918 March
1933 March
32 pages
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
til the turn of the 20th century.
a page from Harper's Weekly in 1887
zoomed sections below
the lagoons were apparently once referred to as the 'canal'
a wooden bridge - 1870's according to Ebay
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
the second building that was once called the Palm House
Lincoln Park Zoo
from 1870-1910ish
all part of my personal collection
all part of my personal collection
'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
all part of my personal collection
The Abraham Lincoln Monument
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Monument
The Alarm
originally called The Indian Monument
another view of it
Signal of Peace
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
part of my collection
Carl von Linné Monument
relocated to Midway Plaisance in 1976
Beethoven
The Complete List:
lost/removed monuments
according to 'Giants at the Park'
part of my personal collection
and this unidentified monument ...
image - 'Lincoln Park 1899'
The High Bridge-Lincoln Park
lost/removed monuments
according to 'Giants at the Park'
part of my personal collection
image - 'Lincoln Park 1899'
1894 -1919
also part of my personal collection
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
Just Passing Though
View of Lake Shore Drive from the Bridge
In the 19th century this road was called
'Breakwater and Carriage Drive'
View of the Lagoon from the High Bridge
now regarded as the South Pond
Once located between of North Avenue & Fullerton
Its probable location ...
(see pier to the right)
A Good Resource
part of my collection
this reprint was original authored
by Andreas Simon in 1893
The Postcards of
Street-End Beaches & Harbors:
all from my personal collection
the entrance to Diversey Harbor
Clarendon Municipal Bathing Beach
Wilson Avenue Bathing Beach
This was a members only beach, hence private
The Daily News Sanitarium
(see pier to the right)
A Good Resource
part of my collection
by Andreas Simon in 1893
Street-End Beaches & Harbors:
all from my personal collection
Fullerton Avenue Bathing Beach
only for children and observing mothers
Diversey Avenue Bathing Beach
Wilson Avenue Bathing Beach
Montrose-Wilson Bathing Beach
Edgewater Beach & Hotel
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
Diversey Avenue Golf Course
Please continue to
Post Note:
I hope my collection will entice the viewer to explore my
extensive blog and learn more of the history of our community that I once called home. Donations (not
a non-profit) are wonderful to receive and will be posted in the blog with full
credit to the donor.
Important Note:
These posts are exclusively used for educational purposes. I do not wish to gain monetary profit from this blog nor should anyone else without permission from the original source - thanks!
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