Days Gone By

Jun 28 2012
6:52 am

Two children playing on a seesaw at the Webster School playground, Chicago, Illinois, 19 August 1902.

Source: Library of Congress

Posted 11 months ago
#1900s #chicago #illinois #USA #vintage #history #children #cute #playground #school #seesaw

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Jun 25 2012
7:16 pm

Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. at Mercy Hospital after his father’s shooting, Chicago, Illinois, 17 October 1912.

Source: American Memory Collection, Library of Congress

Posted 11 months ago
#1910s #roosevelt family #theodore roosevelt jr. #chicago #illinois #USA #vintage #history #assassination #first family

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Jun 21 2012
7:21 pm

John H. White, Chicago ghetto on the South Side, May 1974.

Posted 11 months ago
#1970s #vintage #ghetto #african-american #chicago #illinois #pabst #PBR #advertisement #portrait #friends #john white #USA #south side

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Jun 20 2012
11:30 am

“Viking”, replica of the Gokstad Viking ship, at the Chicago World’s Fair, 1893.

Posted 11 months ago
#1890s #19th century #victorian #vikings #viking #vintage #history #world's fair #world expo #chicago #illinois #USA #ships

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Jun 18 2012
8:06 pm

White City Amusement Park ballroom, Chicago, Illinois, 30 August 1915.

Source: Chicago History Museum

Posted 11 months ago
#1910s #chicago #illinois #USA #vintage #amusement park #ballroom #white city

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Jun 17 2012
11:33 am

White City Amusement Park, Chicago, Illinois, 1905.

Source: Chicago History Museum

Posted 11 months ago
#1900s #amusement park #shooting gallery #targets #chicago #illinois #USA #vintage #edwardians #edwardian

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Jun 17 2012
10:02 am

White Horse Tavern at White City Amusement Park, Chicago, Illinois, 1905.

Source: Chicago History Museum

Posted 11 months ago
#1900s #chicago #illinois #USA #vintage #tavern #amusement park #children

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Jun 16 2012
11:12 pm

White City Amusement Park at night, Chicago, Illinois, 9 July 1916.

Source: Chicago History Museum

Posted 11 months ago
#1910s #chicago #illinois #USA #vintage #amusement park

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Jun 16 2012
10:00 am

Emman Zamora, Burlington “Zephyr” passenger train approaching station and waiting passengers, East Dubuque, Illinois, April 1940.

Source: Library of Congress

Posted 11 months ago
#1940s #emman zamora #vintage #train station #trains #east dubuque #illinois #USA

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Jun 16 2012
2:49 am

Children at White City Amusement Park, Chicago, Illinois, 12 June 1915.

Source: Chicago History Museum

Posted 11 months ago
#1910s #chicago #illinois #USA #vintage #children #amusement park

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