Posts tagged industry

Looking north from 18th Street (Soldier Field to the east), 1954, Chicago.

Looking north from 18th Street (Soldier Field to the east), 1954, Chicago.

Siegel Cooper & Co. spring/summer catalog, 1914, Chicago.

Siegel Cooper & Co. spring/summer catalog, 1914, Chicago.

The Morton Salt Company (in one form or another) has been based in Chicago since 1848.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_Salt

Ships carrying ore arrive at Inland Steel Chicago Works, 1941, Chicago.

Ships carrying ore arrive at Inland Steel Chicago Works, 1941, Chicago.

Standing inside a spring coil at a Nike missile site, 1963, Chicago. Read more about Chicago’s missile history in this WBEZ Curious City article from this year: http://www.wbez.org/series/curious-city/what-happened-nike-missile-sites-around-chicago-105087

Standing inside a spring coil at a Nike missile site, 1963, Chicago.

Read more about Chicago’s missile history in this WBEZ Curious City article from this year:

http://www.wbez.org/series/curious-city/what-happened-nike-missile-sites-around-chicago-105087

Building circuit boards at the Admiral Television Company, 1954, Chicago.

Building circuit boards at the Admiral Television Company, 1954, Chicago.

Look Me Over and Lucky Mojo Good Luck Perfumes, 1935, Chicago.

Marketed and sold to mainly an African American demographic, the products made by the Famous Products Co. and the Valmor Products Co. were based in the American folkloric magic Hoodoo tradition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoodoo_(folk_magic)

Making footballs at Wilson Sporting Goods, 1955, Chicago. Most Chicagoans don’t realize that the world’s largest (and official) supplier of most professional league sports has been based here in Chicago since 1913: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson_Sporting_Goods Also, most of the leather used by Wilson is supplied by Horween Leather, the country’s oldest leather factory, located at Ashland and Elston: www.horween.com

Making footballs at Wilson Sporting Goods, 1955, Chicago.

Most Chicagoans don’t realize that the world’s largest (and official) supplier of most professional league sports has been based here in Chicago since 1913: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson_Sporting_Goods

Also, most of the leather used by Wilson is supplied by Horween Leather, the country’s oldest leather factory, located at Ashland and Elston: www.horween.com

Steampunk fantasy illustrating how the Chicago “El” and city would look in 1999. The illustration was actually created for Disneyland Paris, hence the erroneous “el” moniker… Read more here: http://www.steveandamysly.com/2011/03/28/chicagos-l-in-1999/

Steampunk fantasy illustrating how the Chicago “El” and city would look in 1999.

The illustration was actually created for Disneyland Paris, hence the erroneous “el” moniker…

Read more here: http://www.steveandamysly.com/2011/03/28/chicagos-l-in-1999/

Moving to Slaughter, Union Stockyards, 1946, Chicago. Tom Lea

Moving to Slaughter, Union Stockyards, 1946, Chicago. Tom Lea

Casting pig iron at the Iroquois Smelter, 1890, Chicago. Detroit Publishing Co. via Library of Congress

Casting pig iron at the Iroquois Smelter, 1890, Chicago.

Detroit Publishing Co. via Library of Congress

Laying sewer pipes along Lawrence Ave, 1918, Chicago

Laying sewer pipes along Lawrence Ave, 1918, Chicago

Inside the Lincoln Boyle and Co. ice warehouse at a Chicago railyard, 1943.

Inside the Lincoln Boyle and Co. ice warehouse at a Chicago railyard, 1943.

Stockyards, 1930, Chicago. Margaret Bourke-White

Stockyards, 1930, Chicago. Margaret Bourke-White

Newly off the assembly line, taxi cabs from the short-lived Chicago auto company, Bradfield Motors, hit the streets in the Loop, 1929, Chicago.

Newly off the assembly line, taxi cabs from the short-lived Chicago auto company, Bradfield Motors, hit the streets in the Loop, 1929, Chicago.