Postcard IL: Sherman Park, Chicago, Illinois DB Posted 1914 For Sale

Description: This card depicts Sherman Park in Chicago, Illinois, showing a large brick fieldhouse with a broad hipped roof set along a lagoon or reflecting pool, with a open-air pergola or pavilion visible to the left. The scene captures the park\'s Olmsted-influenced design with manicured lawns, ornamental trees, and a masonry retaining wall along the water\'s edge. Sherman Park, developed in the early 1900s on Chicago\'s South Side, is a notable example of the City Beautiful movement in urban park design.

Publisher: Card no. 593.

Posted: Posted June 23, 1914, Chicago, IL. Addressed to Miss Eichman, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, c/o F.W. Woolworth Co. The message on the left side is partially legible but difficult to fully transcribe.