Period print · not a photograph

Lake Street

Chicago · 1857

What the picture shows

A row of masonry buildings. The sidewalk is up. The roadway is below it. Stairs connect the two levels.

Documented context

This is a print, not a photograph, and not a later colorization of a camera plate. It is filed because it is the period image located for the raising. Do not treat the drawing as a lens.

Photographer: Edward Mendel
Source: Wikimedia Commons. The file is a colored lithograph of a block on Lake Street, dated 1857. A photographic negative of the jacks was not located.
License: Public domain.