{"id":6959,"date":"2016-03-10T10:03:24","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T16:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maxwellhalsted.publish.uic.edu\/?page_id=6959"},"modified":"2017-10-10T15:27:37","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T20:27:37","slug":"pictorial-albums-of-chicago","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/maxwellhalsted.uic.edu\/home\/urban-photography\/pictorial-albums-of-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"PICTORIAL CHICAGO ALBUMS: A VISUAL EXPERIENCE FOR TOURISTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>125 VIEWS OF CHICAGO by RAND MCNALLY (1912)<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/maxwellhalsted.uic.edu\/files\/2016\/08\/305-s.water-street-market.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"details-image alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/maxwellhalsted.uic.edu\/files\/2016\/08\/305-s.water-street-market.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"315\" height=\"264\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/maxwellhalsted.uic.edu\/files\/2016\/08\/306-randolph-market.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"details-image alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/maxwellhalsted.uic.edu\/files\/2016\/08\/306-randolph-market.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"307\" height=\"262\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the introduction: \u201cThe photo-sketches included in this album indicate the tumultuous life of the most cosmopolitan city in the world. \u00a0Within the memory of men yet living this metropolis &#8230; was an Indian garrison, but, with Alladin like rapidity, its size and importance have increased until it is now the second largest city in the Western Hemisphere, with a population of nearly 2,500,000 people &#8230;. Chicago is the greatest railway center in the world, and has six important terminal stations &#8230;. The business interests of the city embrace every imaginable branch of commerce and manufacture. \u00a0As a grain, lumber, live-stock and packing market Chicago stands supreme.\u201d \u00a0bjb<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/uofi.box.com\/s\/sq77n7mslhg9roukgurosle0uemilmq6\">Rand McNally 125 View of Chicago (1912)<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>CHICAGO ALBUM (1893)<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/maxwellhalsted.uic.edu\/files\/2017\/02\/4165.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"details-image alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/maxwellhalsted.uic.edu\/files\/2017\/02\/4165.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/maxwellhalsted.uic.edu\/files\/2017\/02\/4166.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"details-image alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/maxwellhalsted.uic.edu\/files\/2017\/02\/4166.jpg\" width=\"242\" height=\"305\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A standard picture gift album of commercial and public buildings in Chicago, landscaped parks and monuments for sale to visitors to the World&#8217;s Fair and tourists to the city. \u00a0bjb<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/uofi.box.com\/s\/df9v0ubtvf0r9x7j39ttzyyiu9vxjugb\">Chicago Album<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>DETROIT PUBLISHING COMPANY<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/maxwellhalsted.uic.edu\/files\/2015\/04\/1697.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"details-image alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/maxwellhalsted.uic.edu\/files\/2015\/04\/1697.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"323\" height=\"326\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/maxwellhalsted.uic.edu\/files\/2017\/02\/2479.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"details-image alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/maxwellhalsted.uic.edu\/files\/2017\/02\/2479.jpg\" width=\"330\" height=\"321\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Detroit Photographic Company was founded in the late 1880s, and became the Detroit Publishing Company in 1905. It obtained the exclusive rights to use the Swiss \u201cPhotochrom\u201d process for converting black-and-white images into color printing them by lithography. The result was the mass production of color and black-and-white postcards, prints, and albums for sale on the growing American market.<\/p>\n<p>The Company inventory included Western park lands, city and town views, prominent buildings, hotels, resorts\u2013all scenes for which demand was generated with the increasing number of both foreign and domestic travelers and tourists across the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Prominent images in the large Chicago market, for instance, were Lake Shore Drive a scenic boulevard for carriages, the Loop and downtown buildings and lakefront access, the world-class Chicago Railway Stations, and bridges over the\u00a0river and\u00a0water ways. .<\/p>\n<p>With declining sales of photographs and postcards, and newer and cheaper printing methods used by competitors in the 1920s, the Detroit Publishing Company went into\u00a0receivership in 1924, and liquidated in 1932 with the onset of the Great Depression. \u00a0bjb<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/uofi.box.com\/s\/5i85vktl7nio5ixgxy77mtm0izf0uzlx\">Lake Shore Drive-Boulevards<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/uofi.box.com\/s\/aaxsd3e2u0jq6tlksrbt2r97rpi92hhg\">Loop-Downtown<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/uofi.box.com\/s\/8un39mkmdlus1qnj8k14qua9q1p2xvsg\">Railroad Stations<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/uofi.box.com\/s\/save58nm9cncjoha1ypt7mdmnuwndo2n\">River-Bridges<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>FLINN STANDARD GUIDE TO CHICAGO (1891)<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/maxwellhalsted.uic.edu\/files\/2016\/08\/4701.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"details-image alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/maxwellhalsted.uic.edu\/files\/2016\/08\/4701.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"281\" height=\"175\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/maxwellhalsted.uic.edu\/files\/2016\/08\/4685.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"details-image alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/maxwellhalsted.uic.edu\/files\/2016\/08\/4685.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"292\" height=\"177\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/maxwellhalsted.uic.edu\/files\/2016\/08\/4686.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"details-image alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/maxwellhalsted.uic.edu\/files\/2016\/08\/4686.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"281\" height=\"177\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>John Joseph Flinn\u2019s, Chicago, the Marvelous City of the West. A History, an Encyclopedia, and a Guide for 1891\u2013a 600 page illustrated (78 half-tone engravings) \u201cpocket compendium\u201d to the city&#8211;was the first in a series of unparalleled annual Flinn guidebooks for tourists, visitors, and local residents who wish to navigate a way in the giant city. Chicago was, as Flinn claimed, \u201cone of the wonders of moderns times &#8230; her progress amazes mankind.\u201d Growth had been in degrees of magnitude in a span of decades since mid-century, 1,250,000 population in 1891 over 181.70 square miles with 56,240 buildings erected since 1876 with a wholesale business and manufactured products value in 1890 of $582,800,000. The number of science, commerce, labor, neighborhoods, streets, addresses, and cultural institutions were too great in number and spread too distant over the landscape\u2013in Chicago\u2019s case North side, South side, east to suburbs and west to the Lake&#8211;for any personal orientation without a comprehensive informing guide book\u2013a rudimentary 1890s GPS.<\/p>\n<p>The entrepreneur Flinn dedicated his mind with a small army of assistants to arrange for cataloging, compiling, organizing, and ordering mountains of detail in an easy-to-find and copiously indexed reference work. An industrial effort continually in the making, Flinn\u2019s city catalogue was to the expanding tourist and visitor business in Chicago&#8211;what the contemporary Chicago-based Sear\u2019s Catalogue was to the growing mail-order business in the Midwest. bjb<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/uofi.box.com\/s\/tcpdw7msz4wls4rl0856t88uax1uwmeq\">Flinn Standard Guide to Chicago (1891)<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>125 VIEWS OF CHICAGO by RAND MCNALLY (1912) From the introduction: \u201cThe photo-sketches included in this album indicate the tumultuous life of the most cosmopolitan city in the world. \u00a0Within the memory of men yet living this metropolis &#8230; was an Indian garrison, but, with Alladin like rapidity, its size and importance have increased until<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maxwellhalsted.uic.edu\/home\/urban-photography\/pictorial-albums-of-chicago\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":981,"featured_media":0,"parent":7230,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxwellhalsted.uic.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6959"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxwellhalsted.uic.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxwellhalsted.uic.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxwellhalsted.uic.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/981"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxwellhalsted.uic.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6959"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/maxwellhalsted.uic.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20623,"href":"https:\/\/maxwellhalsted.uic.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6959\/revisions\/20623"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxwellhalsted.uic.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxwellhalsted.uic.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}