Green signifies nature, healing, money, love, fertility, and growth. In the Celtic myth about the Green God, he was the God of fertility. Because green represents nature and is seen in most foliage, it represents growth in all aspects. It may be used…
The new Grant Park (Chicago), designed by Edward H. Bennett, is shown here looking from Monroe Street at the edge of the Illinois Central Railroad tracks (right, not shown) north to the 1917 Peristyle designed by Bennett. This has been replaced in…
This aerial view of Grant Park was possibly photographed from the Peoples' Gas Company building (completed in 1911) with Monroe Street going to Lake Michigan at the top. An alternative vantage point is from the top of the Railway Exchange Building,…
This view taken by Bennett from the rooftop of the Railway Exchange Building, Michigan Avenue, shows the future Grant Park prior to its development and to the infill land to the south where the Field Museum later would stand, at this time still in…
This is one of two aerial views, which focuses on the land east-south-east of the photographer Edward Bennett's vantage point on the Railway Exchange Building, Michigan Avenue. The occasion is a military encampment, 1909-1912, with many small tents…
The 1917 Grant Park Peristyle appears in this photo looking north from the roof of the Railway Exchange Building during a 1918 parade on Michigan Avenue, perhaps for the November 11, 1918 Armistice. The park west of the Illinois Central Railroad…
Musical program includes Fugue Tunes, Anthems and Choruses of "Ye Olden Time," and the works Rebecca at the Well, Embracing an Opportunity, Taking the Veil, Gipsey Camp, and concluded with the Star-Spangled Banner. Father Dean, conductor.
Humorous program containing the Disorder of Exercises for the evening including an old moth-eaten address, grand burlesque of a modern orator, laughable pantomime and a musical solo with accompanyment on the knee bones. Parody of Class Exercise Day…