The clip starts with a stop at the Standing Lincoln statue near the south end of the park. I think the man walking in front of it is either my great-uncle Alfred John Massmann (1901-1964), or my grandfather, Paul Robert Pape (1896-1970).
Here's a picture of Standing Lincoln from about 1901 (from the Detroit Publishing Company photograph collection, Library of Congress):
In the still image from the movie below, the building in the background on the right is the Lincoln Park Conservatory. I think the road in the image might be today's N. Stockton Drive. Note the horses crossing the road.
Here's a circa 1905 image of the conservatory (and gardens) taken from close to the same point - a little further north and east than the viewpoint above - this is spring or summer (from the Detroit Publishing Company photograph collection, Library of Congress):
This still image from the movie is of a polar bear in the nearby Lincoln Park Zoo:
This Polar bear image from 1900 is from the Illinois Urban Landscapes Project of The Field Museum Library in Chicago (via Flickr Commons):
This is how the Bear Pit at the Lincoln Park Zoo looked about 1922 (another postcard from 1931 indicates they still looked the same then):
(Postcard courtesy John Chuckman's Chicago Nostalgia and Memorabilia site.)
This still image from the movie is probably of an American Black Bear:
This American Black Bear image from 1900 is from the Illinois Urban Landscapes Project of The Field Museum Library in Chicago (via Flickr Commons):
Here's another still image from the movie of a dark-colored bear. At this point in the movie, it was snowing lightly.
Further on, there are birds in cages in the movie:
I think the large bird pictured above is a White Pelican, like the one from 1900 pictured below, from the Illinois Urban Landscapes Project of The Field Museum Library in Chicago (via Flickr Commons):
Anther bird that appears in the movie might be a Stork, like the one from 1900 pictured below, from the Illinois Urban Landscapes Project of The Field Museum Library in Chicago (via Flickr Commons):
Here's a still image from the movie with what might be a stork in an enclosure that clearly is inside a building:
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