Historic Pictures of the Week August 4 to 10

I'm doing a daily posting of a Historic Hyde Park Photo, so I thought I'd compile the week here.

August 4

Here are folks rowing around the Mere in Washington Park around 1918. The tower of the White City Amusement Park is in the background. The boathouse is long gone but the spot is still there. From https://chicagopc.info I muttered about this postcard and trusting postcards in general here: https://patricia-morse.com/.../history-picture-of-the-day/

August 5

Elizabeth Haseltine working on the fawn statue that would sit atop the David Wallach Fountain. From the 20 October 1939 Tribune. More on the story of the fountain Hyde Park Historical Society — Chicago's Hyde Park Historical Society (hydeparkhistory.org)

August 6

Massive landfill to create the Point and Lake Shore Drive. The lake was once at the corner of the Sisson Hotel and just east of the Chicago Beach Hotel. An image I didn't end up using in my hotel talk, labels are mine. Chicago. 1927 Chicago Aerial Survey Photo. The Sisson is now Hampton House and the Cooper-Carleton is now the Del Prado. The Chicago Beach Hotel is now where Regents Park stands. [hotel talk is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkPBikpIv2I]

August 7

The Illinois Central South Park Station built in 1881 at 57th Street when the tracks were ground level. “South Park” once referred to the neighborhood that formed around the train station at 57th Street. Earlier, the railroad called the stop “Wood Pile” because it was where the steam engines refueled. After real estate investors complained that they couldn’t sell lots in Wood Pile, the Illinois Central renamed the stop “Woodville” and then “South Park” because it was near the newly landscaped north end of Jackson Park, which was in the South Parks System [University of Chicago Photographic Archive, apf2-04259, taken in 1894] 

August 8

Saarinen and Associates 1955 Master Plan of the University showing the South Crosstown Expressway to Midway Airport and the cloverleaf exchanges in Jackson Park. From Building the Ivory Tower: Universities and Metropolitan Development in the Twentieth Century By LaDale C. Winling 

August 9

Lorado Taft working on the model for the Fountain of Creation, which would have stood on the east end of the Midway facing the Fountain of Time. It was based on the myth of Deucalion and Pyrrha reconstructing the human race by throwing rocks behind them. The figures on the base are "awakening consciousness" and "coming into being" Two sons of Deucalion and two daughters of Pyrrha were carved in limestone for the 1933 Century of Progress and are now at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Photo 1910 (Chicago History Museum DN0055835) #HydePark #Chicago #midwayplaisance

August 10

What the Fair left behind--63rd Street transit. Streetcar tracks going under the IC railroad trestle with the El tracks going over the top. A draft horse studies the photographer, Walter E. Augier. Legacy of the Fair, August 1894. (Chicago History Museum ICHi173625) #HydeParkChicago #JacksonPark #Woodlawn