History Thru The Lens

Welcome to my blog site!

My interests in history and photography come together in this photoblog. Featured in this blog are historical pictures such as the above photo of the RMS Olympic and her sister ship the RMS Titanic, which would prove to be the last one of them together side by side. Hopefully all who visit will enjoy it and recommend the site to their friends.

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Showing posts with label Illinois. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Illinois. Show all posts

Sunday, May 30, 2010

Wrigley Field

The Federal League's Weeghman Park, home of the Chicago Wales,  is pictured on opening day in 1914. It would eventually be renamed Wrigley Field, and along with Fenway Park, remains to this day as one of the oldest existing baseball stadiums.

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Union Station

January 1943 photo of the waiting room in Chicago's Union Station.

Thursday, August 27, 2009

President Lincoln Funeral Train


In 1865, President Abraham Lincoln's funeral train is pictured during a stop in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where his body would lay in state in the capitol building. The train was retracing the route it had traveled from Illinois to Washington, DC in 1860, when Lincoln was elected president.