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!