Leslie Hudson - Hyde Park

I would like to thank the following people for their assistance with this project: I am greatly indebted to the staff of the University of Chicago Library Special Collections Research Center and Map Collection; my appreciation goes to Jay Mulberry and the Hyde Park Historical Society archives, which provided many answers and details; the Chicago Park District archives were extremely helpfulmany thanks to Park Historian Julia Bachrach and Archivist Bob Middaugh; Gary Ossewaarde of the Hyde Park Kenwood Community Conference (and its website) provided answers to many questions about Washington Park and Jackson Park; my thanks to Manfred Ruddat of the University of Chicago for his help with the Botany Building history; Debra Gust and the Curt Teich Postcard Archives provided much useful information, as well as the Midway Gardens image; Samantha Gleisten at Arcadia Publishing provided assistance all along the way and the initial encouragement to write a postcard history of Hyde Park. My family has been supportive and interested throughout. I would like to thank Emily for her sound writing advice, Jack for his willingness to look at just one more postcard, Dick for his good-humor and support, and Joan and Marje for manuscript improvements. Finally, I am grateful to the original recipients of these postcards, for saving them, and to the senders, whose messages often provided rich detail and insight into the period.

BATHING BEACH AT JACKSON PARK. These beach-goers are enjoying the waters of Lake Michigan at Hyde Parks 57th Street Beach. The beach pavilion, formerly the Iowa Building at the 1893 Worlds Columbian Exposition, appears in the background. (VOH-1916)

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WASHINGTON PARK

The finest of Chicagos parks. South Park has statelier trees, grander avenues, more sweeping perspectives, more charming drives than any other park in the city. It has the famous meadow, a stretch of velvety sward that covers 100 acres and the Mere, with its thirteen acres of water, picturesquely sparkling behind long lines of ancient oaks and elms, and bathing the emerald banks of the mounds and knolls which almost conceal it from the view of the passing visitor. It has also its great conservatory and its splendid stables, which cover 325 X 200 feet, and through which you will be driven if you take a park phaeton. ( The Standard Guide to Chicago , 1893)