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 5-28-10, categories shown if hard to find!

Athens Restaurant
Beverly Glass & Mirror
Camelia House Restaurant, Drake Hotel
Devils Rendezvous Resturant Casket Room
Holdens Shoes
Pub & Prow Restaurant
Ravenswood Me Church
Round Table Restaurant
Sauganash Inn
Spaulding Co.
State St. North of Jackson Blvd.
University of Chicago Reading Room of Harper Library
Victory Life Insurance Co.
Wesley Hospital

 

 

Cards added 4-14-10, categories shown if hard to find!

Alex Moni Buffet
Allegrettis Restaurant
American Restaurant
Birds Eye View, Chicago
Buckingham Fountain, Grant Park, Chicago
Café La Margarita
Chicago Subway - Mezzanine Station
Ciros Restaurant
Congress Hotel and Annex - Pompeian Grill
Continental Illinois Bank & Trust - Office of Chairman
Cook County Hospital (Alex Moni Buffet, Olympia)
Cook County Hospital (Aerial Labeled)
Country Pancake House
Dearborn St North of Madison
Edgewater Beach Hotel - Bathing Beach
Fourth Presbyterian Church - John Timothy Stone Chapel
Fullerton Plaza Apartment Hotel
Granatos Pizzeria
Gus Good Food Restaurant - Green Room
Hills Summer Garden Co.
Home for Incurables - medical misc
Jacques French Restaurant - Ritz Bar
Joe and Jeans Lounge
La Salle Street Entrance to Tunnel
Lake/Wells EL Train Intersection
Latin Quarter Restaurant
Le Colonial Restaurant
Lindas Margaritas Restaurant
Lions Catering Service Grand Ballroom
Lions Catering Service Lobby
Lutheran Deaconess Hospital
Mandarin Inn
Marshall Fields Cloud Room Restaurant Midway Airport
Marshall Fields - Linings, Dress Goods, Shoes
Martinique Restaurant, older
Mccormick Place and Meigs Field
Moody Bible Institute - Class Room
New York Life Ins. Building
North Clark St Between Washington & Randolph (George M Cohans Grand Opera House)
Parkway Hotel Café
Reception Hall - Baptist Missionary Training School
Russian Tea Room and Art Shop
Salvation Army School for Officers Training
Sayat Nova Restaurant
Skooglunds Cafeteria
State and Van Buren EL Train Station
State St North of Adams (Cd Peacock & Others)
That Steak Joynt
The Grand Crossing
The Rustic Manor Restaurant
Tip Top Inn - Colonial Room
4 Misc Stock Yards cards
Worlds Fair - Administration Building
Worlds Fair - Administration Building as Seen from Lake Michigan
Worlds Fair - Belgian Village
Worlds Fair - Golden Temple of Jehol
Worlds Fair - Hall of Science from Lagoon
Ye Baltimore Inn




 



 

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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.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.edgewaterhistory.org - website devoted to the Edgewater neighborhood 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.

www.chicago-photo.com - lots of photos of Chicago & links to other sites

We could list thousands more, I suppose, but you get the idea. Typing "Chicago history" into Google will get millions of hits!