Remembering Chicago
With a selection of fine historic images from his bestselling book Historic Photos of Chicago, Russell Lewis provides a valuable and revealing historical retrospective on the growth and development of Chicago.
Chicago’s history is a testimony to the resilience of its citizens. From its rebirth after the Great Fire in 1871, the city met and overcame the social and economic challenges of the century to follow.
Many of the events of the city’s history are recorded in photographs in the archives of the Chicago History Museum. This volume, Remembering Chicago, captures the city’s history through a selection of those photographs. The book follows life, government, education, and events spanning two centuries of Chicago’s history. It captures unique and rare scenes through the original lens of more than a hundred historic photographs. These images portray the evolution of Chicago from a frontier town to one of the world’s most cosmopolitan cities.
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Book details
- Author
- Russell Lewis
- Imprint
- Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback
- Subjects
- History › United States › State & Local › Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
Photography › Subjects & Themes - Topics
- Chicago history · historic photography · black-and-white photos · pictorial history · local history · Great Fire of 1871 · urban development
- ISBN-13
- 9781683368151
About the author
RUSSELL L. LEWIS JR. spent a 36-year career at the Chicago History Museum, rising from assistant editor to Executive Vice President and Chief Historian. His books include Remembering Chicago, Historic Photos of the Chicago World’s Fair and Historic Photos of Chicago.
Lewis received the 2018 Distinguished Career Award from the Association of Midwest Museums. He held a B.A. in historical archaeology from the University of Florida and an M.A. in American culture from the University of Michigan.
Lewis twice served as Acting President of the Chicago History Museum, was elected to its Board of Trustees in 2016, and became the museum’s first Chief Historian Emeritus.
Russell Lewis died of pancreatic cancer on April 19, 2019, at age 67.