Search for:

Search for:

Showing 1 - 21 of 21 Records
Skyline with industrial area and railroad yards
Image Image
View of an industrial area with a storage building and railroad yards along the riverfront adjacent to Chicago's downtown Loop. The Merchandise Mart is visible on the left, with the Wallace Press Building in front of it.
Date:
circa 1971
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Loop skyline from Grant Park railroad yards
Image Image
View toward North Michigan Avenue and Loop skyscrapers from the Grant Park railroad yards (where Millennium Park is now located). 35 East Wacker Drive (originally Jewelers Building) is at the upper left.
Date:
1968
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Bridges, viaducts, and underpasses: 18th St. Bridge 1 (AKA Grove St.) (Folder 49)
38 Images
Bridges, viaducts and underpasses included: 18th St. Bridge 1 (AKA Grove St.) (undated 4 x 5 negatives, 1935, 1966, 1967)
Date:
1935-1967
Collection:
James S. Parker Collection
Access:
Public access
Lakefront at East Monroe Street
Image Image
Aerial view looking east at Chicago Harbor, the Chicago Yacht Club, and Lake Michigan. East Monroe Street is visible on the lower right.
Date:
1972
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Grant Park railroad yards and Loop buildings
Image Image
View from the railroad yards in Grant Park toward Michigan Avenue and Loop high-rise buildings. At the left behind the trees is the Michigan Avenue National Bank Building (Michigan Boulevard Building), with the Chicago Public Library (Chicago Cultural Center) next to it to the right. Behind that is the United Insurance Building (1 E. Wacker).
Date:
1975; 1914 (Michigan Avenue National Bank Building); 1962 (United Insurance Building)
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Hubbard Street Railway Yard and Near North Side
Image Image
View from the Hubbard Street Yard of the Chicago & North Western Railway, with Near North Side buildings beyond. The John Sexton Building (located at Illinois and Orleans Streets) is visible at the right, behind the passenger train. Behind that is the John Hancock Center. The Wallace Press Building is partially visible at the far left.
Date:
1970; 1917 (John Sexton Building); 1969 (John Hancock Center)
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Auditorium building from Grant Park railroad yards
Image Image
View towards the Auditorium building and adjacent Michigan Avenue buildings from over the railway yards in Grant Park.
Date:
1972; 1889 (Auditorium Building)
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Bridges, viaducts, and underpasses: 18th St. Bridge 1 (AKA Grove St.) (Folder 48)
31 Images
Bridges, viaducts and underpasses included: 18th St. Bridge 1 (AKA Grove St.) (undated 4 x 5 negatives, 1935, 1966, 1967)
Date:
1935-1967
Collection:
James S. Parker Collection
Access:
Public access
CTA train yard, Wilmette terminal
Image Image
View looking northwest along the CTA tracks (now Purple Line) towards the Linden station in Wilmette. Buildings along Linden Avenue can be glimpsed in the distance to the right of the tower.
Date:
1971
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Hubbard Street Railway Yard and Near North Side
Image Image
View from the Hubbard Street Yard of the Chicago & North Western Railway, with the Near North Side skyline beyond. On the left is the John Sexton Building, then a warehouse but now condominiums. Behind that is the John Hancock Center.
Date:
1970; 1917 (John Sexton Building); 1969 (John Hancock Center)
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Bridges, viaducts, and underpasses: Kinzie St. Bridge (Folder 42)
48 Images
Bridges, viaducts and underpasses included: Kinzie St. Bridge (1944, 1948, 1949, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1957, aerials [undated]1960, 1964)
Date:
1944-1964
Collection:
James S. Parker Collection
Access:
Public access
CTA Howard Street train yards
Image Image
View southeast of the CTA tracks (now Purple Line) and the train yard north of the Howard station. A couple cars of the Skokie Swift train (with light green tops) are at the far left. The top of the sign for the Howard Theater (1615-43 West Howard Street) is visible against the sky at the far right.
Date:
1971
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Railroad yards and Union Station, Near West Side
Image Image
Aerial view looking west along West Jackson Boulevard, with railroad yards in the foreground. The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Building (547 W. Jackson) and Union Station are beyond these. University Hall, a high-rise tower on the campus of the University of Illinois at Chicago, is in the distance at the upper left.
Date:
1967; 1924 (Union Station)
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Loop skyscrapers from railroad yards
Image Image
View northwest from the railroad yard where Millennium Park is now located, toward Michigan Avenue and Loop skyscrapers. The Michigan Avenue National Bank Building (Michigan Boulevard Building) is visible at the left, with the Chicago Cultural Center next to it. The towers of the United Insurance Building (1 East Wacker Drive), 35 East Wacker Drive (Jewelers Building) and the Carbide & Carbon Building stand out among the group of Loop skyscrapers in the distance.
Date:
1968
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Bridges, viaducts, and underpasses: Fullerton Ave. Bridge through Halsted St. Lift Bridge (Folder 40)
33 Images
Bridges, viaducts and underpasses included: Fullerton Ave. Bridge (1940, 1961); Grand Ave. Bridge (1944, 1955); N. Halsted St. River Bridge (1940); N. Halsted St. Canal Bridge (1955); N. Halsted St. Bridge (1964); S. Halsted St. Bridge (undated (1933); Halsted St. Lift Bridge (undated)
Date:
1933-1964
Collection:
James S. Parker Collection
Access:
Public access
Railroad yards, South Deering
Image Image
View looking southwest from East 103rd Street overpass at a large rail yard. Boxcars in the foreground include one from the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railway (C&EI) and another from Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad (DT&I).
Date:
1974
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Michigan Avenue from railroad yards in Grant Park
Image Image
View of the Michigan Avenue "streetwall" from the railway yards in Grant Park. Illinois Central railway cars are in the foreground. The Congress Hotel is in the distance, and the Auditorium Building is next to it to the right.
Date:
1972
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Bridges, viaducts, and underpasses: Kennedy Expressway Ohio Feeder Ram and Kinzie St. Bridge (Folder 10)
27 Images
Bridges, viaducts and underpasses included: Kennedy Expressway Ohio Feeder Ramp (1972); Kinzie St. Bridge (1914, 1944, 1948, 1949, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1957, 1963, 1964, 1968, 1969)
Date:
1914-1972
Collection:
James S. Parker Collection
Access:
Public access
CTA train cars, Wilmette terminal
Image Image
View of CTA train cars standing at the Wilmette CTA station. An old train car is at the right.
Date:
1971
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Michigan Avenue "streetwall" from Grant Park railroad yards
Image Image
View of the Michigan Avenue "streetwall" from the railroad yard in Grant Park. In the center are the Gage Group buildings and Willoughby Tower.
Date:
1971; 1890-1899 (Gage Group); 1929 (Willoughby Tower)
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
South Michigan Avenue from railroad yards
Image Image
View of the Michigan Avenue "streetwall" seen from across railway land near Madison Street. The Smith, Gaylord, and Cross Building (20 N. Michigan Avenue), is on the far right. The McCormick Building (332 South Michigan Avenue) is the last high-rise visible on the left. The Mid-Continental Plaza (55 East Monroe Street) rises behind these Michigan Avenue buildings.
Date:
1984
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access

Active filters

Subject Topic: Railroad yards   Remove all  

16 Cities and towns 10 Architecture 7 Railroad cars 4 Commercial art 4 Movable bridges 3 Advertising 3 Aerial photographs 3 Bridges--Maintenance and repair 3 Freight cars 3 Iron and steel bridges 3 Office buildings 3 Plank roads 3 Railroad tracks 3 Signs and signboards 3 Warehouses 2 Bolts and nuts 2 Bridges 2 Bridges--Bearings 2 City traffic 2 Couplings 2 Engineering personnel 2 Fracture mechanics 2 Gearing, Bevel 2 Gearing, Spur 2 Gearing, Worm 2 Iron and steel workers 2 Local transit 2 Mechanical engineering 2 Pedestrians 2 Pipe 2 Shafting--Bearings 2 Soil stabilization 2 Steel I-beams 2 Steel, Structural 2 Truss bridges 2 Watchtowers 2 Waterfronts 1 Basements 1 Bridges--Floors 1 Bridges--Floors--Deterioration 1 College buildings 1 Commercial buildings 1 Concrete construction 1 Concrete masonry 1 Concrete walls 1 Concrete--Corrosion 1 Construction workers 1 Dedication services 1 Docks 1 Factories 1 Floors, Wooden 1 Harbors 1 Hydrants 1 Industrial districts 1 Iron and steel bridges--Corrosion 1 Iron and steel bridges--Design and construction 1 Loading and unloading 1 Marinas 1 Materials handling 1 Metal castings--Welding 1 Movable bridges--Design and construction 1 Municipal officials and employees 1 Parking lots 1 Pavements, Brick 1 Pedestrian areas 1 Photographs 1 Railroad stations 1 Railroad trains 1 Railroads tracks 1 Railroads--Freight 1 Refuse and refuse disposal 1 Scrap materials 1 Scrap metals 1 Sidewalks 1 Skyscrapers 1 Storage facilities 1 Street-railroads 1 Structural steel workers 1 Truss bridges--Maintenance and repair 1 Viaducts 1 Warnings 1 Welders (Persons) 1 Wooden doors 1 Wooden fences 1 Wooden stairs