In October 2006, the Library's Photo Archives began a project that was funded by the Library Services Technology Act through the Honorable Jesse White, Illinois State Librarian. The purpose of the project was to use digital technology to create replacement-quality, high-resolution replicas of a collection of over 800 original glass negatives. The images produced for this project range from 1894 to 1925 and show Chicago and outlying areas’ flora, fauna, parks, and neighborhoods. They also document architectural changes to the Field Columbian Museum in Jackson Park and The Field Museum in its present location in Grant Park.
For the image galleries on the following web pages, the Project team of Nina Cummings, Jerice Barrios, Melissa Anderson, and Karen Bean chose images that are representative of the overall scope of the project. We encourage scientists and the general public to email us at urbanlandscapes@fieldmuseum.org with questions or comments.

For a more complete collection of the images from the Urban Landscapes project, please visit the Illinois Digital Archives (IDA).

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For more Field Museum images, visit the Illinois Digital Archives (IDA).






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