132 Year Old Views of Chicago

Book Title - Views of Chicago.
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New York, A. Wittemann - 1892
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[@julies2814]

It's amazing with how big of a city Chicago was back then with all the massively large buildings but there doesn't appear to be very many people walking around or riding/driving around. Where did all the people go?? The very few people that are visible just doesn't equal the scope of the massive structures.. Is this because of yet another reset..

[@daveweiss5647]

It was so beautiful. We have fallen so far...

[@annnymous604]

As always, beautiful work. As always old world pictures with nearly empty streets. Seriously, where is everyone? Thank you for sharing...

[@KGBSpyGeorgeCostanza]

Man look at how amazing it looked....

[@muqeo]

always perplexed by how similar the whole world looked in the 1800s....

[@FlatWaterFilms]

We are the reset people. We didn't build these great cities, we inherited them. That's why they are called Free-Masons.

[@DrewishBear]

Don’t be, millenial reign of Christ& Saints was a “global” situation

[@DrewishBear]

@@FlatWaterFilms that’s why I put it in quotation marks dude!

[@muqeo]

​@@DrewishBear I know a long game of telephone when I see one. to me it's more likely that we were a global civilization that experienced great cataclysm that disrupted life on earth and the balance of powers, and the victors of that dark time wrote a different history for us. I'm a solar mythos baby

[@DrewishBear]

@@muqeo oh..I’m a grown man. Never seen a baby in the comments before. You wild.

[@paulmicelli5819]

When you live in a city for a long time you see the changes. I live in a city on the East Coast that was incorporated in 1797. I have lived in the same city for over 76 years and have seen old buildings like these demolished over the years and replaced with glass palaces.

[@JoshuaRolen]

No hydrogen blimps equals no massive solid stone buildings.

[@VictorSanchez-vt9xm]

So many beautiful castles and cathedrals 🥹

[@ghus528hz]

Amazing architecture! I have no answers only questions.

[@beckydorius251]

Incredible! Thank you somuch! XO

[@jimdillinger7757]

Excellent portrayal of an ancient city, best pics yet.

[@etevejames4264]

all this beautiful architecture lost in time. a lost great teacher gave them this. he paid a great price

[@michaelplanchunas3693]

I recognize many of these buildings. Many survived into the 1960s,70s,80s,90s.

[@jameswill175]

Muddy roads, new sidewalks, old buildings.

[@joachimgoethe7864]

A great city to live in back then. Today however. . .

[@JdeC1994]

For me, Chicago has been a great place to live: 34 years & counting. What are your credentials? 🧐🤔 In many ways, life today-in Chicago-is much better: the lake is much more clean, the river is much more clean, the air is much more clean (not counting the occasional bout of wildfire), there isn't horse manure everywhere, the stench of the stockyards is gone, the buses and trains are air conditioned, the lakefront is in much better shape, tuberculosis is gone, etc.

[@JdeC1994]

Yeah, urban America's demographics were much easier back then.

[@isabellalive2.081]

Another Beauty.

[@Tdub0911]

I'm pretty awake but growing up I also didn't think a thing about it other than wow, that is cool. I guess trying to get others to "see" it isn't as easy for them due to them needing to at least be curious about the system we're in first. I look at old Seattle pics where all these awesome homes were built by the wealthy and slowly got ripped down to make place for the rectangles we have now.

[@andread8]

Chicago ❤ I recently was at the "Grant" memorial you showed.

[@marym4569]

Heartbreaking that so much has been destroyed 😢

[@illinoisjones8003]

Grew up there. Where the F is that incredible 0:57 so called Courthouse from? That's from dreams. This version of Chicago looks like a great place to live. Seemed like the 1973-2000 version I lived in was the teaser trailer for this version. Also, like the 360 photo of 1860s San Fran - it has curiously empty streets. Would be nice to get the true story of this some day - but I suppose it all burned up in a fire, so they just made new silly stories up and slapped 'history' branding on it. (EDIT - looked up courthouse, it's credited to James J Egan - but as usual the story is incomplete and makes no sense - and does not match the churches he's credited with.)

[@user-yb5jw1qy5j]

Are we looking at the actual stone age or age of stone masonry?

[@mrx656]

I'm sure the city doesn't look this nice now.

[@JdeC1994]

In some places, Chicago looks worse, but in other places, it looks better.

[@Comakino]

5:28 Libby Prison is supposedly a Civil War era prison building moved from Virginia and set up as a museum with added castle walls, because why not? No mention of where the castle walls came from. It only stood in Chicago for 10 years. Nothing makes sense in the story of this one at all. Possibly someone creating a narrative for some reason?

[@Comakino]

Architect we're given is C.M. Palmer who MAY have been some relation to the tycoon Potter Palmer

[@LatentLexicon]

@@Comakino Wonder if there is any relation to the President of the World's Columbian Commission - Thomas W. Palmer. Very interesting indeed.

[@DrewishBear]

MLB was just talking about Palmer again too. They do love to tell lies and palm 🍆..maybe that’s got something to do with it 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@calvinguile1315]

Why would any of these buildings be gone?

[@KB8Killa]

“Fire”

[@f.t.p.b.t.p.]

Wow 10 seconds in.

[@terryrustad1800]

💫

[@SpaceGhost67]

The ruins of a heroic and brilliant civilization, not the nascent appearance of one. This is a city much older than the nation that claims to have built it.

[@johnfree2833]

Its like they drop a neutron bomb for the eradication, disintegration of humanity when this realm gets too populated...😮

[@KB8Killa]

Has little to do with a raw number

[@I0goose0I]

I’ve never been to Chicago and from what I learned and heard about my whole life in that time period in that part of the country the “settlers” were lucky to make it as far as they did. No way they made any of that. Man made for sure just not who were told I think. Plenty of people there before the settler that’s for sure