Chicago River on a Foggy Morning
Collection: Cities
Title
Chicago River on a Foggy Morning
Subject
Chicago River (Ill.)
Chicago (Ill.)
Description
No. 201. CHICAGO RIVER ON A FOGGY MORNING.
Joliet and Marquette in 1673 discovered the fact that the Indians used the Chicago river as a means of reaching tne Mississippi river. Passing up its south branch as far as possible, a portage of four or live miles brought them to the Desplaines river and so to the father of streams. The French later kept a fort at the portage, but it was of little importance and was little used. John Kinzie, the first American to settle at Chicago, bought his house in 1803 from a French trader, who himself had acquired it from a colored man from San Domingo who built it about the year 1777.
Not before 1816, after the New Fort Dearborn had taken the place of that destroyed in the massacre of 1812, could a small village grow up on the banks of the Chicago river. In 1830 the hamlet consisted of less than a hundred people, living in log houses. The building of the Illinois and Michigan canal gave the necessary first impetus to that immigration which has never stopped since. In 1834 the first schooner sailed up the river. Today the tonnage of shipping in Chicago is eight millions a year. Our picture represents the wide expanse of the river, one of the massive warehouses on its banks and one of the many bridges that span it.
A8523
Creator
T.W. (Truman Ward) Ingersoll
Source
Canton Township Carnegie Library, Canton KS, USA
Publisher
Canton Township Carnegie Library, Canton KS, USA
Date
1898
Rights
Format
image/jpeg
Language
English
Type
Stereographs
Identifier
201
Citation
T.W. (Truman Ward) Ingersoll, “Chicago River on a Foggy Morning,” Digital Canton, accessed December 25, 2024, https://canton.digitalsckls.info/item/517.
Original Format
Stereograph
Physical Dimensions
7 x 3.5 inches
Title
Chicago River on a Foggy Morning
Subject
Chicago River (Ill.)
Chicago (Ill.)
Description
No. 201. CHICAGO RIVER ON A FOGGY MORNING.
Joliet and Marquette in 1673 discovered the fact that the Indians used the Chicago river as a means of reaching tne Mississippi river. Passing up its south branch as far as possible, a portage of four or live miles brought them to the Desplaines river and so to the father of streams. The French later kept a fort at the portage, but it was of little importance and was little used. John Kinzie, the first American to settle at Chicago, bought his house in 1803 from a French trader, who himself had acquired it from a colored man from San Domingo who built it about the year 1777.
Not before 1816, after the New Fort Dearborn had taken the place of that destroyed in the massacre of 1812, could a small village grow up on the banks of the Chicago river. In 1830 the hamlet consisted of less than a hundred people, living in log houses. The building of the Illinois and Michigan canal gave the necessary first impetus to that immigration which has never stopped since. In 1834 the first schooner sailed up the river. Today the tonnage of shipping in Chicago is eight millions a year. Our picture represents the wide expanse of the river, one of the massive warehouses on its banks and one of the many bridges that span it.
A8523
Creator
T.W. (Truman Ward) Ingersoll
Source
Canton Township Carnegie Library, Canton KS, USA
Publisher
Canton Township Carnegie Library, Canton KS, USA
Date
1898
Rights
Format
image/jpeg
Language
English
Type
Stereographs
Identifier
201
Citation
T.W. (Truman Ward) Ingersoll, “Chicago River on a Foggy Morning,” Digital Canton, accessed December 25, 2024, https://canton.digitalsckls.info/item/517.Original Format
Stereograph
Physical Dimensions
7 x 3.5 inches