Two of Leigh Bienen's websites, Florence Kelley in Chicago, 1891-1899 and Homicide in Chicago 1870-1930, made extensive use of ~500 hand-selected print images from 55,000 images of urban life in or near Chicago, Illinois, captured on glass plate negatives between ~1902 and 1933 by photographers employed by the Chicago Daily News, then one of Chicago's leading newspapers. The original images were part of the Chicago History Museum's permanent collection; and all 55,00 digitized versions are part of the Library of Congress' permanent collection, as well. The photo shown here is from the page Lives of Children, captioned:
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| Children digging with pick axes on a Chicago street Chicago IL. Source: ICHi-03889. Chicago History Museum. Reproduction of photographic print, photographer unknown. Date: 1898 |
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