Those Places Thursday: Lincoln Park, Chicago, From a 1927-1928 Home Movie

Here is a short clip (1:27 minutes) from the 1927-1928 home movie I found in my late father's belongings earlier this year.  In it, Pape and Massmann family members are visiting Chicago's Lincoln Park.  I posted still pictures of some of the people in this clip yesterday.

 


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:

That building might be what was called the "Bird Cage" in this postcard from the 1907-1914 (divided back, printed in Germany) era:

(Postcard courtesy John Chuckman's Chicago Nostalgia and Memorabilia site.)

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