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Identifier: chicagohistoryfor00harp (find matches)
Title: Chicago, a history and forecast
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Harper, William Hudson, 1857- ed Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry Quaife, Milo Milton, 1880-1959 McIlvaine, Mabel
Subjects: Chicago (Ill.) -- Description and travel Chicago (Ill.) -- History
Publisher: (Chicago) The Chicago association of commerce

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The Municipal Art League and the Chicago CameraClub, in a series of strikingly lovely postal cards forpublic sale, are uncovering beauties in the materialforms of smoke-beset Chicago. Not a classic old worldruin this, but the peristyle adorning the lake front. Photo by Robert H. Conklin 148 ignore the conditions. The recent gifts of such splendidcollections as the Kimball and Palmer pictures will alonerequire two galleries for their accommodation. Chicagos increased interest in art is well exemplified
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As dignified and stately as a Grecian temple—a section of the portico of the Field Museum. This picture is another art gift of the Municipal Art League and Chicago Camera Club. Photo by A. H. Born 149 in the two important prize competitions offered throughthe Art Institute by the Chicago Daily News and the Chi-cago Tribune, the Tribune offering a $5,000 prize formural paintings to decorate the walls of its local room,and the Neivs offering $1,000 for a sculpture decorationfor a fountain to embellish the grounds about the DailyNews sanitarium for sick babies. A reader of the accompanying interesting sketch of theChicago of the past fifty years will note that in a com-munity having its own endowment in the arts there wasthe happiest cultivation of opera to the degree of avail-able resources—tomorrow a greater Chicago will readthat in 1921 this place became the first American cityto effect an organization of citizens to underwrite in theirprivate capacities the adequate production of

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