Zooming Through History
Free Zoom Backgrounds from Our Image Collection
Zoom from Chicago history wherever you are! Wow your family, friends, and colleagues with a view of the 1893 world’s fair or the 1933 skyline. Missing your usual springtime fun? Put yourself in Lincoln Park or with the 1908 Chicago Cubs.
1. The Administration Building surrounded by crowds on Chicago Day at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. CHM, ICHi-002201; C. D. Arnold, photographer
2. The Ulysses S. Grant Monument in Lincoln Park, c. 1900. Color postcard published by the Max Rigot Selling Co. CHM, ICHi-059934
3. The 1908 Chicago Cubs baseball team with its mascot. CHM, ICHi-076837
4. The view looking southeast from North Michigan Avenue toward the Wrigley Building (right) and the Loop, c. 1933. Color postcard published by Max Rigot Selling Co. with C. T. American Art Colored. CHM, ICHi-085790-A
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With more than 6.5 million images and 4 million feet of moving images, the Chicago History Museum’s prints and photographs collection is the single largest source of pictorial information for the Chicago metropolitan area from the early nineteenth century to the present.
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