1893: 'Cattle Cars'

'Cattle Cars'

A view of Michigan Avenue from the viaduct during the World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893, showing people boarding the so-called ‘cattle cars’ to take them to the fir. The first part of the Congress Hotel, the Auditorium and the Studebaker Building (now called Fine Arts Building) and in the distance the statue of Columbus may be seen.

Courtesy of “Chicago and Its Makers” (Chicago: Felix Mendelsohn, 1929).

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