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  • Collection ID 1985.0046
  • Creator Names Barnes-Crosby Company, photographer. pht
  • Title Barnes-Crosby collection of glass negatives and master photographs [graphic].
  • Dates [ca. 1904-1913]
  • Physical description
    • 300 photographic prints : b&w ; 11 x 14 in.
    • 300 negatives : glass, b&w ; 11 x 14 in.
  • Collection arrangement Organization: by negative number.
  • Access and usage restrictions To consult the glass negatives in this collection in the Research Center it is necessary to make an advance appointment (email: Research@chicagohistory.org ). However, the collection may include prints of many of them.
  • Collection summary Photographs and negatives of popular Chicago streets and sites primarily in the Loop area, by the commercial photography studio Barnes-Crosby Company. Many focus on individual buildings such as hotels, office buildings, stores, museums, theaters, hospitals, libraries, government buildings, organizations' buildings and buildings of the University of Chicago. Includes transportation scenes such as street traffic of horse-drawn vehicles and early automobiles, street market carts and wagons, street railroads, elevated trains and stations, major railroad stations, steam powered trains, boats and ships on the Chicago River and Lake Michigan along with scenes of the docks. Also includes views of major Chicago parks, monuments and memorials therein, fire departments, stockyards, White City amusement park, a few large mansions and a scene of an unidentified baseball game. In general, people do not figure prominently in these photographs. Most images are identified.
  • Finding Aids Note Unpublished container list available (1985-46).
  • Acquisition information Gift of the Barnes-Crosby Company (1985.0046).
  • Location of Other Archival Materials Note Related materials at Chicago History Museum, Research Center, include the Barnes Crosby sample album (1993.0227).
  • Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Credit photographer.
  • Subjects
    • Amusement parks Illinois Chicago 1900-1919. lctgm
    • Apartment houses Illinois Chicago 1900-1919. lctgm
    • Armories Illinois Chicago 1900-1919. lctgm
    • Automobiles Illinois Chicago 1900-1919. lctgm
    • Banks Illinois Chicago 1900-1919. lctgm
    • Baseball Illinois Chicago 1900-1919. lctgm
    • Boats Illinois Chicago 1900-1919. lctgm
    • Bridges Illinois Chicago 1900-1919. lctgm
    • Carts & wagons Illinois Chicago 1900-1919. lctgm
    • Churches Illinois Chicago 1900-1919. lctgm
    • City & town life Illinois Chicago 1900-1919. lctgm
    • City & town halls Illinois Chicago 1900-1919. lctgm
    • Commercial facilities Illinois Chicago. lctgm
    • Courthouses Illinois Chicago 1900-1919. lctgm
    • Dwellings Illinois Chicago 1900-1919. lctgm
    • Elevated railroads Illinois Chicago 1900-1919. lctgm
    • Fire engines & equipment Illinois Chicago 1900-1919. lctgm
    • Galleries & museums Illinoiis Chicago 1900-1919. lctgm
    • Grain elevators Illinois Chicago 1900-1919. lctgm
    • Hospitals Illinois Chicago 1900-1919. lctgm
    • Hotels Illinois Chicago 1900-1919. lctgm
    • Lakes & ponds Illinois Chicago 1900-1919. lctgm
    • Libraries Illinois Chicago 1900-1919. lctgm
    • Lifesaving stations Illinois Chicago 1900-1919. lctgm
    • Markets Illinois Chicago 1900-1919. lctgm
    • Monuments & memorials Illinois Chicago 1900-1919. lctgm
    • Office buildings Illinois Chicago 1900-1919. lctgm
    • Offices Illinois Chicago 1900-1919. lctgm
    • Organizations' facilities Illinois Chicago 1900-1919. lctgm
    • Parks Illinois Chicago 1900-1919. lctgm
    • Railroad stations Illinois Chicago 1900-1919. lctgm
    • Railroads Illinois Chicago 1900-1919. lctgm
    • Schools Illinois Chicago 1900-1919. lctgm
    • Ships Illinois Chicago 1900-1919. lctgm
    • Stockyards Illinois Chicago 1900-1919. lctgm
    • Street-railroads Illinois Chicago 1900-1919. lctgm
    • Streets Illinois Chicago 1900-1919. lctgm
    • Synagogues Illinois Chicago 1900-1919. lctgm
    • Theaters Illinois Chicago 1900-1919. lctgm
    • Universities & colleges Illinois Chicago 1900-1919. lctgm
    • Water towers Illinois Chicago 1900-1919. lctgm
    • Winter Illinois Chicago 1900-1919. lctgm
    • Zoos Illinois Chicago 1900-1919. lctgm
  • Names Cermak, Anton Joseph, 1873-1933 Portraits.
  • Geographic coverage
    • Chicago River (Ill.) 1900-1919.
    • Garfield Park (Chicago, Ill. : Park) 1900-1919.
    • Jackson Park (Chicago, Ill. : Park) 1900-1919.
    • Lincoln Park (Chicago, Ill) 1910-1919.
    • Michigan, Lake 1900-1919.
    • Washington Park (Chicago, Ill. : Park.) 1900-1919.
    • Loop (Chicago, Ill.) 1900-1919.
    • Near North Side (Chicago, Ill.) 1900-1919.
  • Genre
    • Dry plate negatives. gmgpc
    • Gelatin silver prints. gmgpc
    • Glass negatives. gmgpc
  • Geographic name United States Illinois Cook County Chicago.
  • Finding aid URL Finding aid available online http://chsmedia.org/media/fa/fa/1985/46.htm