Niles Center Aerial View Drawing, circa 1925
Title
Niles Center Aerial View Drawing, circa 1925
Creator
Description
Hand-drawn detail of Niles Center roads, church, fire house, and greenhouses taken from an aerial photograph of Niles Center from around 1925 from the collection of the Newberry Library. Areas labeled include: golf course [Evanston Golf Club], Main Street, Skokie Boulevard, Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, St. Peter's [Catholic] Church and cemetery, Niles Center Road, Floral Avenue, Fire house, and Oakton Street.
From Chapter 12, "Niles Center: Aerial Photograph, c. 1925" in Skokie: A Community History Using Old Maps by David Buisseret (Chicago Neighborhood History Project, and the Skokie Historical Society and the Newberry Library, 1985).
Date
circa 1925
Publisher
Skokie Historical Society, Skokie, Illinois (original web version); Chicago Neighborhood History Project
Rights
No Copyright - United States http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Format
Medium
maps
Source
Skokie Heritage Museum, Skokie, Illinois
Provenance
Skokie Historical Society, Skokie Heritage Museum, Skokie, Illinois
Spatial Coverage
Niles Center, Illinois; Skokie, Illinois
Temporal Coverage
Is Part Of
David Buisseret, Skokie, a Community History Using Old Maps
Citation
Buisseret, David, “Niles Center Aerial View Drawing, circa 1925,” Skokie History Digital Collections, accessed April 20, 2024, https://skokiehistory.omeka.net/items/show/3144.