JOSEPH
T. RYERSON COLLECTION OF CHICAGO STOREFRONT & RESIDENCE PHOTOGRAPHS,
1880-1885
Storage: Box Lot (3 8 x 10 in. boxes)
Accession
number: G1986.0470
Description
of the Collection
Summary:
Mounted photographs of Chicago storefronts and residences
with
people--presumably business owners, residents, staff and/or
patrons--informally
posed in front of buildings. Businesses include
bars
and liquor stores, butcher shops, clothing stores and tailors,
grocery
stores, hardware and paint stores, shoe stores, pharmacies
and
tobacco shops. Also includes a few photographs of coal dealers,
boarding
houses, stationers, a barbershop, a billiard hall, a cart
manufacturer,
a club and a restaurant. Most are identified by name
and
address. Residences are generally one- or two-story frame
structures
with family groups posed on stairs, porches, or in
windows.
A few larger homes and multi-family dwellings are
represented.
Most families and addresses are unidentified.
Container
List
Box
1 Storefronts
1
Barbershops
Unidentified (1)
2
Bars & liquor stores, A-H
Best, Frank--513 S. Halsted
Blecha, Vincenc--489 S. Canal
Chmelik, --147 19th
Cordano, J. & Brother--46 W.
Randolph
Feldmann, Joe--608 N. Canal
Frank, A.--1062 W. Madison St.
Friend, Moritz--963 N. Milwaukee
Ave.
Gensche, Christian--58 W. Randolph
Ginsberg, Chas.--103 Jefferson
Harth, John--541 ? [86 Blue Island
in 1880]
3
Bars & liquor stores, I-Z
Jesse, James--3801 S. Halsted
Kappes, George--613 Blue Island?
Kersham, --145 12th St.
Kohler, Joseph--73 Swift Place (West
Division)
Lyon, George--684 W. Randolph
Maasen, J.--3831 S. Halsted
McAuley, M.--3109 S. Halsted
Musilek, --408 18th St.
Petrtyl, --125 W. 19th St.
Regan, G.A. (George A.)--3459 S.
Halsted
Rote, G.--276 Hurlburt St.
Sonnenschein, C.--18th & Morgan
4
Bars & liquor stores
Unidentified (4)
5
Billiard halls
Stack's Billiard Hall
6
Butcher shops
O'Connor, Dennis--12 W. Jackson
Schneider, August--171 W. Indiana?
Sheehy, M.J.--222 W. Indiana
Unidentified (2)
7
Carts & wagons
Press, Jacob--62 Halsted
8
Clothing stores & tailors, A-Z
Frahm, Chas. M.--449 W. Chicago Ave.
Gerard & Rabe--377 W. Chicago
Ave. (3)
Junna, A.--S.W. cor. Canal &
Randolph
Kothe, Henry--187 W. 20
Larsen, A.--617 W. Indiana (2)
Losby, --209 Indiana St.
Lurie, Adolphe--364 W. 18th St.
Rezanka Bros.--451 S. Canal (2)
Stalder, Charles & James
Johnston--42 W. Randolph
Strandes, H.--596 Canal St.
Zavadil (Zawadil), Lud.--184 12th
St.
9
Clothing stores & tailors
Unidentified (4)
10
Clubs
Rovnost, Svornost, Bratrstvi--1126
W. 18th St.
Box
2 Storefronts
1
Coal dealers
Fernald, J.W.--12th & Halsted
Leonhardt & Co.--Church St. nr.
R.R.
2
Grocery stores
Auer, Jacob--180 W. 12th St. (2)
Deecken, Chas. W.--188 W. Randolph
Hecht, Henry--537 Milwaukee Ave.
Helmke, Jacob & Charles
Petersen--613 Milwaukee Ave. (2)
Horstmann, E.--1125 Milwaukee Ave.
Hottinger, A.--534 N. Lincoln
Matt, Jacob & Charles--704 S.
May
Thurn, John L.--2822 Archer Ave.
Unidentified (1)
3
Hardware & paint stores
Anderson Bros.--245 W. Indiana St.
Davis, C.L.--54 Randolph
Lattan?, Theo.--146 W. Randolph
Spierling, Fred E.--979 Milwaukee
Ave.
Tehle Bros.--205 W. 12th St.
Unidentified--256 W. Lake St.
Unidentified (1)
4
Lodging houses
Chambers, W.--4109 [...] (2)
Hausen, A.--2907 [...]
5
Pharmacies
Baker, Geo. R.--4357 N. Hermitage
(2)
Emrick, G.M.--307 N. Michigan (2)
Heylmann, Charles--298 W. Lake St.
Jacobson, --182 N. Halsted
Laux & Woltmann--869 N. Clark
6
Restaurants
Kirchoff, Carl--50 W. Randolph
7
Shoe stores & shoemakers
Day, E.B.--765 W. Madison (2)
Deckert, A.--2716 Archer Ave.
Koch, Philip--3011 Archer Ave. (2)
Lapham, C.W.--737 W. Madison
Staesel, --615 Milwaukee Ave.
Union Shoe Company--199 Randolph
Winnebeck, M.--3009 Archer Ave.
Unidentified (1)
8
Stationery & variety stores
Derudder, J.--290 W. 12th St.
West End Variety Store--989 W.
Madison (2)
Unidentified (1)d
9
Tobacco shops
Larsen, Otto C.--503 S. Jefferson
Palda, Alois
Zinngrabe, John--3835 S. Halsted
Unidentified group portrait of
cigarmakers (1)
Box
3 Residences
1
Identified
Becker
Brewster
Brown--Chicago Ave. (South Evanston)
Halberg, Chas.
Hayer, 24 Grove St.
MacArthur, Robert D.--202 Dearborn
Ave.
McCutcheon, Abraham--408 W. Chicago
Ave.
Meyer, --254 W. Chicago Ave.
Richmond, F.C.--Englewood, Ill.
Shutley--82 Julian St.
Sipple, C.
Young--319 Hinman Ave.
2-4
Unidentified
dmr
November
14, 1986