Title: George R. Lawrence Collection, 1900-1910
Storage: Box Lot (1 11 x 14 in. box)
Accession Number: G1982.0184
Description of the Collection:
Contains 8 x 10 in. photographs by Lawrence, a photographer that specialized in panoramic and aerial views. Includes views of the Chicago Union Stock Yards; the Big Camera; preparation for and voyage to Africa; his airplane factory and trials; his kites and ladders plus copy prints of all panoramas.
Container List
Folder 1
Asbury Park, N.J./Aerial photograph/300 feet above the board walk. ICHi-19936
Atlantic City, N.J./800 feet above the board walk, 1909. ICHi-20020
Aerial photograph of Five Mile Beach (New Jersey)/Wildwood Crest/
North Wildwood Holly Beach/from Lawrence Captive Airship/at height of 1000 feet. ICHi-19641
Folder 2
The Great American Derby, 1904. 2 copies ICHi-19937
Wyeth winning the Great American Deby, 1901. 2 copies ICHi-11938--left side of panorama, ICHi-19939--right side of panorama, ICHi-19940--entire panorama
Folder 3
Chicago Heights, Ill., 1908. ICHI-19941
Fort Sheridan, Ill./from Lawrence Captive Airship/at 600 feet elevation, 1908. ICHI-19942
Waukegan, Ill., 1908. ICHi-19944
Scene of the consecration of Zion Temple Site, taken at the moment of the offering of the consecration prayer by the Rev. John Alex. Dowie,
General overseer of the Christian Catholic Church in Zion, Zion City Site, July 14, 1900. ICHi-19944
Folder 4
International Ballooning Contest/Aero Park/Chicago, July 4, 1908. ICHi-11038
Marshall Field Chicago/Carlisle vs. Chicago/Nov. 23, 1907. ICHi-17147
United States Army Tournament/Grant Park, Chicago, July 4, 1910. 2 copies. ICHi-19945
Chicago, Ill., 1907. ICHi-19951
Folder 5
McCormick Works/International Harvester Co./Chicago, Ill. ICHi-19946
Milwaukee Works/International Harvester Co./Chicago, Ill. ICHi-19947
Folder 6
Reno, Nev./looking North East/1000 feet elevation. 2 copies. ICHi-17499, ICHi-20295
Madison, Wis., ca. 1905-1910. ICHi-19948
Pacific Grove, Calif., [n.d.] ICHi-19949
Berkely, Cal./looking East, at 1000 ft. elevation/from Lawrence Captive Airship/Nov. 24, 1908. ICHi-19950
Folder 7
Ruins of San Francisco/Nob Hill in foreground/from Lawrence Captive Airship/1500 feet elevation/May 29, 1906. ICHi-11104
Ruins of San Francisco/Nob Hill in foreground/from Lawrence Captive Airship/1500 feet elevation/May 29, 1906. [Slightly different photography from ICHi-11104, ICHi-19953
Ruins of San Francisco/Nob Hill in foreground/from Lawrence Captive Airship/1500 feet elevation/ May 29, 1906. [Photogravure?] ICHi-19953
Photograph of/San Francisco in ruins/from Lawrence Captive Airship/2000 feet above San Francisco Bay/overlooking water front/sunset over Golden Gate. May 28, 1906. ICHi-19954
Folder 8
Bird's-eye view if ruins of San Francisco/from Captive Airship 600 feet above folsom/between Fifth and Sixth Sts. 3 copies. ICHi-11102
Unburned district/of San Francisco/looking Northeast from/Lawrence Captive Airship/2200 feet elevation, 1906. ICHi-19955
Folder 9
San Francisco/two years after/from Lawrence Captive Airship/1000 feet above California & Powell Sts, 1908. 2 copies.
San Francisco, 1909. ICHi-19956
San Francisco/two years after/from Lawrence Captive Air Ship/800 feet above 4th & Missions Sts., 1908. ICHi—19958
Folder 10
Photograph of/San Francisco in ruins/from Lawrence Captive Airship/2000 feet above San Francisco Bay/overlooking water front. ICHi-11105
Part of the unburned district/San Francisco/April 30, 1906/1500 feet above Vallego and Leavenworth Streets/looking West. 3 copies. ICHi-11103
San Francisco--April 1909/Three years after/1000 feet above Jones and Washington Sts. Copyrighted 1909 by R.J. Waters Aerial Photography Co., operating under Geo. R. Lawrence patent. ICHi-19960
San Francisco--April 1909/three years after/1000 feet above Jones and Washington Sts. Copyrighted 1909 by J.W. Waters Aerial Photography Co., operating under Geo. R. Lawrence patent. [Photogravure?]
Folder 11
Irrigation project, 1907. ICHi-19957
Aerial view steamer "Hamburg" under way mid-ocean [sic]/August, 1909. ICHi-19963
Boyce African Balloonograph, 1909. ICHi-19962
Folder 12
Hutchinson, Minn. ICHi-20021
Anne Steinfeldt 12/1985