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Showing posts with label Photograph(s) Only. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Photograph(s) Only. Show all posts
Saturday, May 27, 2023

President Lincoln delivering his second inaugural address on the east portico of the U.S. Capitol, March 4, 1865.

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This is the only known photograph of Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address by Alexander Gardner. John Wilkes Booth [red arrow] can...
Saturday, February 18, 2023

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery; Abraham Lincoln

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The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has announced the installation of a life-size painting of President Abraham Lincoln by artist W....
Monday, May 2, 2022

Rublof and Wolack building in Uptown, Chicago.

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The Rublof & Wolack Building in Uptown, Chicago, 1921. This gorgeous terra cotta Rublof and Wolack building once stood at the corner of ...
Sunday, April 24, 2022

Janda's Drive-In, 8030 Ogden Avenue and Barrypoint Road, Lyons, Illinois.

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A linen postcard from the 1940s showing the Janda Drive-in near the Hoffman Tower along the Desplaines River. Janda's Drive-In was popul...
Saturday, April 23, 2022

The intersection of Harlem and Ogden Avenues in 1934.

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The intersection of Harlem and Ogden Avenues in 1934.  Sinclair Grease Palace would be in Riverside Illinois and Philadelphia Cones is in Ly...
Friday, August 6, 2021

Chicago's Howard Street Wall. (1992-1994)

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The Howard Street Wall at the Intersection of Howard and Sacramento, in the West Ridge community of Chicago. Across the barrier is Evanston....
Saturday, July 17, 2021

The Halsted Cable Car Line in 1893. Chicago City Railroad Company.

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Chicago City Railroad Company's cable cars began service on February 23, 1882. The Halsted Cable Car (№ 5871)  line passes through a sub...
Tuesday, October 20, 2020

Abraham Lincoln, Oil on Canvas by John Henry Brown. 1860

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Abraham Lincoln, Oil on Canvas by John Henry Brown. The National Portrait Gallery in the Smithsonian Institution. 1860 CLICK FOR A FULL-SIZE...

President Lincoln and group of civil war officers at Antietam, Maryland, 1862.

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President Lincoln with General George B. McClellan (#6) and a group of officers at Antietam, Maryland. Photograph from the main eastern thea...
Saturday, October 17, 2020

President Abraham Lincoln and his Horse Statue at the Lincoln Cottage in Washington D.C.

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This statue of President Abraham Lincoln and his horse statue by sculptor Ivan Schwartz stands before the cottage where the Lincoln family c...
Tuesday, October 6, 2020

The Lincoln Family. Oil on canvas by Francis Bicknell Carpenter. 1865

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The Lincoln Family, oil on canvas, 1865, by Francis Bicknell Carpenter, was widely published as an engraving and hung in many an American pa...
Thursday, August 27, 2020

Portrait of Abraham Lincoln that was used as a campaign badge (buttons) during the 1860 presidential election.

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This ambrotype shows a bust portrait of Abraham Lincoln with no beard. The image is based on a photograph of Lincoln taken by Mathew B. Brad...
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Saturday, August 15, 2020

Alexander Gardner's Finest 1863 Photograph of President Lincoln.

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In mid-summer of 1863, both President Lincoln’s and the Union’s future were looking up. The twin victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg in Ju...
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Monday, August 3, 2020

The First Daguerreotype Photograph of Abraham Lincoln taken in 1846.

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CLICK FOR AN ENLARGED PICTURE This daguerreotype (the correct horizontal view) is the earliest confirmed photographic image of Abraham ...
Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Cable Court, a One Block Private Street, a Turnaround for Cablecars, in Chicago.

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The Hyde Park turnaround, which ran on a separate electric cable, was at Cable Court (East 56th Street and South Lake Park Avenue, [1500W] w...
Saturday, June 27, 2020

Holocaust Memorial Statue Vandalized in Skokie, Illinois, Early Monday Morning on June 3, 1987.

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In historical writing and analysis, PRESENTISM introduces present-day ideas and perspectives into depictions or interpretations of the pas...
Monday, March 30, 2020

Lake View Cycling Club of Chicago in the 1890s.

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CLICK THE PICTURE TO ENLARGE The Lake View Cycling Club in front of its clubhouse at 401-403 North Orchard Street, Chicago (today,  2224...
Saturday, February 15, 2020

What's Cooking Restaurant in Lincoln Village Shopping Center, Chicago, Illinois. (1978-2012)

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The restaurant located in Lincoln Village Shopping Center at 6181 North Lincoln Avenue (in building 'D'), Chicago, first opened as ...

CTA Streetcar in front of Wrigley Field, 1957.

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CTA streetcar № 7222, ("Green Hornet"), in front of Wrigley Field. The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (aka &...
Tuesday, February 4, 2020

Milwaukee Avenue and Waukegan Road as dirt roads around 1900.

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Looking north on Milwaukee Avenue and Waukegan Road begins on the right in Niles, Illinois. (c.1900) Waukegan Road was known as "...