LAWRENCE
E. DICKE COLLECTION OF CHICAGO STOREFRONT AND RESIDENCE
PHOTOGRAPHS,
1880-1885
Storage: Box Lot (4 11 x 15 in. boxes)
2 negatives :
cellulose nitrate ; 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. (folder)
Accession
number: G1986.0478.3
Description
of the Collection
Summary:
Mounted photographs and nitrate negatives of Chicago storefonts
and residences with people--presumably business owners, residents, staff and/or
patrons--informally posed in front of the buildings. Businesses include bars
and liquor stores, butcher shops, clothing stores and tailors, grocery stores,
hardware and paint stores, shoe stores and tobacco shops. A few photographs
show laborers--construction workers, garment workers, and cigar makers. Most
businesses are identified by name and address. Residences are generally onel or two story frame structures with family groups posed
on stairs, porches, or in windows. Most families and addresses are
unidentified. Also includes two photographs of church altarpieces.
Container
List
Box 1 Storefronts
1 Bars & liquor
stores, A-Z
Best Brewing Co.--1317 W. Fletcher
Blecha, Vincenc--489 Canal*
Family Liquor
Store--113 W. 12th St.
Friend, Moritz--963
N. Milwaukee Ave.*
Ginsberg, Chas.--103 Jefferson*
Jesse, James (Jim's Exchange)
Kohler, Jos. (Lake View Exchange)I--1083 N. Halsted*
Lavis,
S.R.--809 W. Madison (2)
McAuley,
M.--3107 S. Halsted*
Petrtyl's*
Regan, C.A.--3459 S. Halsted*
Rote, G.--276 Hurlburt St.*
Sonnenschein,
C.--18th & Morgan*
Wood, E.--351 [...]
2 Bars & liquor stores
Unidentified (3)
3 Butcher shops
Austin & Caley--1591 [...]
Doyle's Market--705 [...]
O'Connor, Dennis--12 W. Jackson*
Sheehy, lM.J.--222
W. Indiana*
Werner & Weber--294 1/2 W. Lake
St.
Unidentified (2)
4 Clothing stores & tailors
Gerard & Rabe--377
W. Randolph*
Strandes, H.--596 Canal St.*
Unidentified (1)*
5 Clubhouses
Rovnost, Svornost, Bratrstvi--400
18th St.*
6 Grocery stores
Helmke
(Jacob) & Petersen (Charles)--613 Milwaukee*
Hoffman--3017
Archer?
Hottinger,
A.--534 N. Lincoln*
Matt, Jacob & Charles--704 S.
May*
Unidentified (2)*
7 Hardware & paint stores
Lattan,
Theo.--146 W. Randolph*
133 W. 19th St.
68 W. Randolph (2)
256 W. Lake St.*
Box 2 Storefronts
1 Labor
Cigar Manufacturers (Alois Palda) (2)*
Construction workers
Unidentified group before storefront
(men & women)
Unidentified group before 2-story
frame house
2 Miscellaneous
Stack's Billiard Hall--333 W. Indiana
Press, Jacob (cart maker)--62 Halsted
Unidentified--643 Throop?l
Unidentified--cor.
Jefferson & DeKoven St.?
Unidentified--424
Jefferson St.
Unidentified--15th & Market
3 Shoe stores & shoemakers
Deckert, A.--2716 Archer Ave.*
Lapham, C.W.--737 W. Madison*
Straesel, --615 Milwaukee*
Union Shoe Company--199 Randolph*
4 Shoe stores & shoemakers
Sprengel,
John--258 W. Chicago Ave. (13)
5 Tobacco shops
Johnson, A.H.--84 N. Halsted
Mursch
& Co.--Chicago & Lincoln Ave.
Unidentified--1126 [...]
6 Interiors
Church--Main altar
Church--Side altar
Box 3 Residences
1 Identified residences
Englewood, Ill. (October, 15-22, 1881)
McCutcheon,
Abraham--480 W. Chicago Ave.*
Richmond, F.C.--Englewood, Ill.
Wink, Sarah--336 W.
Chicago Ave.
Young, --319 Hinman Ave.
cor. Ashland
& North Ave.
548 W. Chicago Ave.
267 W. Indiana
269 W. Indiana
47 Keenan St.*
cor. 15th &
Market St.
Powell Ave., nr. #46
140 N. Southport (3)
90 Webster Ave.
124 Webster Ave.*
cor. 16th & 4th
Ave.
131 19th St.
2 Unidentified residences (12)
3 Unidentified residences (12)
Box 4 Residences
1 Unidentified residences (8)*
2 Unidentified residences (7)*
3 Unidentified residences (1)*
4 Unidentified residences (1)*
Folder
1 Nitrate Negatives (call# 1986.0478
PNN)
http://digitalcollection.chicagohistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16029coll5/id/1427
*Another
copy in Joseph T. Ryerson Collection of Chicago Storefront & Resi-
dences (1986:470). Prefer Ryerson copy for research and reproduction.
dmr
November,
1986