Inventor Name
Chicago Daily News
Repository
Chicago Historical Society
Clark St. at North Ave.
Chicago, IL 60614-6071
312-642-4600
http://www.chicagohs.org/collections/archives.html
Physical Description
55,000 glass negatives
Summary
The Chicago Daily News Negative Collection comprises more than 55,000 images of urban life captured bewtween 1902-1933 by photographers employed by the Chciago Daily News, then one of Chicago’s leading newspapers. Images of inventors, inventions, and architectural innovations are in the collection. The collection is online at the Library of Congress’s American memory site and the Chicago Historical website.