Days Gone By

The World’s Columbian Fair in Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1893.

Source: Smithsonian Institution

Hemming Hultgren, World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago - Machinery hall, Chicago, Illinois, 1893.

The first Ferris wheel from the World Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois, 1893.

Source: New York Times photo archive

Detroit Publishing Company, Masonic Temple, Chicago, Illinois, September 1900.

Source: Library of Congress

Chicago Daily News, Masonic Temple with new Marshall Field and Company Building, Chicago, Illinois, 1911.

Source: Library of Congress

Unemployed men queued outside a depression soup kitchen opened in Chicago by Al Capone, February 1931.

Source: National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

Frank Scherschel, Life at a 26-story apartment building at 860 Lake Shore Drive, designed by Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe, Chicago, Illinois, USA, November 1956.

Jack Boucher, Chapin & Gore Building on 63 East Adams Street, Chicago, Illinois, USA, February 1971.

Source: Historic American Building Survey, Library of Congress

Francis Miller, A woman reading the newspaper and watching the television, Chicago, Illinois, USA, February 1952.

Andreas Feininger, Dilapidated Golden Flats tenement slum housing, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1950.