Links to other postcard & Chicago history websites are below this new cards section.
Here are the titles of new cards that have been added to the website, along with the date that they were added.
Cards added 5-1-08
A Bit of Sweden Restaurant
Atlas School Supply
A. Wolf Co. Diamonds
Bismarck Garden exterior & int. views
Charles Bruning Co.
Chicago Kindergarden College 5 views
Chicago Lying-In Hospital lobby
Ev. Luth Tabor Schule U ? C - please help!
Illinois College of Chiropody interior, yikes!
Math Igler's Casino singing waiters
Mickey's Lounge
Middleby Oven Co.
Morris Perfect Eat Shop
Mount Sinai Hospital group
Nielsens Restaurant interior
Norwegian Lutheran Deaconess Hospital interior views
Ogden Park Terrace homes for sale
St. Paul Methodist Church
Swedish Covenant Hospital
Washington Park Hospital
Webster Hotel lobby
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Here are some links to websites
where you may be able to find Chicago postcards & images, as well as other
historical sites.
www.lcfpd.org/discovery_museum/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.view
- This is the website of the Lake County
museum that has the archives of the old Curt Teich postcard company. They have a
lot of images on the web.
www.patsabin.com/illinois
- Pat Sabin's website. A nice website that has more information on the
architects of old Chicago buildings, and much more.
www.judnick.com/Judnick/Links.htm - This website has lots more links to
collectors, dealers, etc.
Here are some links to sites that will help with research on the city of
Chicago.
www.chicagoancestors.org - NEW!
great website for Chicago research, by the Newberry Library.
www.architecture.org - Chicago
Architecture Foundation
www.chicagohistoricalphotos.com
- some very nice photos of Chicago, this is a retail site as well
www.chicagohistory.info - lots of
history of Chicago, as well as images
www.chicagohs.org - Chicago History Museum
www.chicago.urban-history.org/res/res04.shtml - info of Jazz Age Chicago,
has many more links
www.chipublib.org - the Chicago Public Library
www.ci.chi.il.us/Landmarks/index.html - City of Chicago website, landmarks
page
www.corsinet.com/chicago/chicagot.html - lots of interesting facts
www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org - website of the Encyclopedia of Chicago
www.historyillinois.org/hist.html - the Illinois History Resource page,
click on "Chicago: Past and Present" to get many more links to Chicago info
www.history.uchicago.edu - this
link will not always work, for some reason
www.library.thinkquest.org/CR0215480/ - Chicago history for kids
www.tc.umn.edu/~tmisa/biblios/WWW_Chicago.html - links to Chicago history
websites
tigger.uic.edu/depts/ahaa/imagebase - The Chicago Imagebase project. Takes
some getting used to. Do not use "www" with this site. Just make sure "http://"
is directly in front of this address.
We could list thousands more, I
suppose, but you get the idea. Typing "Chicago history" into Google will get
over 235,000 hits!