Our picture represents the center of the lawyers’ district in the heart of the business part of Chicago. On the right hand are seen that stately columns of the upper floors of the City Hall, and County Building, doomed to be replaced by new structures, although they have been standing only about 25 years. On the left is the Sherman House, one of the famous hostelries of the city, beyond which, at the corner of Clark street, looms the Ashland Block, filled almost exclusively with lawyers, the Schiller Building, containing a large theater, and the Masonic Temple.
Chicago is the second city of the United States in manufacture and commerce. It has about 20,000 manufacturing establishments with a capital of nearly $600,000,000, and a production of $1,000,000,000 a year, these figures remaining about one-third below those of New York. A8523
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London, England]]>
Interior view of Henry VII Chapel, Westminster Abbey, London England]]>
Inscription on verso:
Dear Fräulein du Cliesne
Here we are in London and on Saturday we sail for America. We all miss Dresden, and I still always remember the after that I spent with you shortly before be left. With love.
Catherine Kinnear


]]> lp_henry_verso.jpg]]> ]]> River Thames
London, England
Steamboats]]>
View of the Tower of London from the River Thames, featuring various boats.]]> Closely connected with England's history ever since it was built in 1078 by William the Conquerer. The Tower to-day is noted the wide world over for its famous Armouries, Crown Jewels, fearful Prison Chambers, and quaintly dressed Warders, all serving to connect the glories of the past with stern realities of the present. ]]> lp_tower_verso.jpg]]> ]]> Back:We are on the American side of the river, looking S.W. up the river and across to Canada. This snow-coated bluff on which we are standing goes almost straight down 160 feet before it reaches the river-level. The river waters have come down through the rapids just above, at our left; now Goat Island, that high tree-crowned cliff over the heads of these sight-seers, divides the flood into two parts, just as it makes ready to leap into the gulf far below. These are the American Falls on this side of Goat Island; over there at the right, where the clouds of spray rise and float like smoke before our eyes, are the Horse-Shoe Falls, pouring over the enormous, curing precipice that reaches across to Canada. The trees in the distance there at the right, dimmed by the must and spray, are on the Canadian shore, three quarters of a mile away. Between those and the point where we are standing the enormous outlet of the Great Lakes comes steadily sweeping on and on and on, to fall into this gigantic chasm and send up these millions of spray sparkles into the winter air. The depth of the heaving waters, away down below the falls, is said to be some 180 feet; the bed of the river is not less than 350 feet below these snow banks. The ceaseless sweep of the Horse-shoe; that great curve is moving back up the river toward Lake Erie at an average rate of 2 4/10th feet in a year. Within the memory of men now living the falls have receded almost 200 feet. The vast processes of the world’s creation are still going on before our eyes. And yet, with all its awful grandeur, the chief impression of Niagara is that of vast serenity.
See Niagara through the Stereoscope, published by Underwood & Underwood, with special “keyed” maps showing the exact location of a series of admirable standpoints and identifying all the landmarks
]]> Embossed Postcards,
New Year Greetings Cards,
Dresden, Germany, ]]>
Best Wishes on a New Year Greetings Card.]]>
Inscription on recto:

How nice it would be if you were all here to celebrate with us. Prager strasse is more attractive than ever. The imitation snow in the store windows seems to be about all we will see this year, much to our disappointment. Accept our best wishes for a very happy New Year.
Mrs. H. A. Heilbron & family]]>
Postmarked 12/21/1908.]]> http://www.postalheritage.org.uk/whats-on/onlineexhibitions/christmasthroughthepost/

For more information on early, German, embossed postcards see: http://www.collectorsweekly.com/postcards/christmas]]> ]]> ]]> tc_best_verso.jpg]]>