2-752-511 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Scenes in Chicago', 1874. 'Entrance to Chicago River; Chicago river from Madison Street bridge; On Wabash Avenue; Michigan Avenue; Portico of the Board of Trade', Illinois, USA. 'Wabash Avenue and Michigan Avenue are…of a semi-suburban character, lined with tree-shadowed villas and mansions, and fine churches; and here, at all fashionable hours, may be seen gay throngs of carriages, equestrians, and pedestrians'. From "Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In, A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes...with Illustrations on Steel and Wood by Eminent American Artists" Vol. II, edited by William Cullen Bryant. [D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1874]