Hotel La Salle, La Salle and Madison Streets, Chicago

Subject: Hotels & Inns
Card type: Lithograph
Date: c. 1907 (Golden Age)

Back of Hotel La Salle, La Salle and Madison Streets, Chicago, c. 1907 lithograph postcard — Back

About this subject

Elevated view of the Hotel La Salle, a tall red-brick and white-stone hotel with a mansard roof and rooftop flag, occupying a corner at La Salle and Madison Streets. Pedestrians and awnings line the sidewalks below, with neighboring commercial blocks at left and right.

Postcard Details

Message · English, in pencil

Dear Sistie will be in Rock[illegible] Sunday I am re[illegible] [illegible] you have rich and [illegible] you are a great deal better now We have been moving [illegible] from Advance that, as we have a nice place now Love to all Emma 2124 Lawrence st

PostmarkedChicago, IL, July 22, 1910, 15:30

Addressed to

Miss L. L. Mitchel

R.F.D., Sidney, N.Y.

Postcard record

Postmarked	July 22, 1910, 15:30, Chicago, IL
Condition	Fair
Place addressed	Miss L. L. Mitchel, Sydney, NY
Place depicted	Hotel La Salle, Chicago, IL
Place depicted	Chicago, IL
Publisher	Franklin Post Card Co., Chicago, IL
Stamp	1c Benjamin Franklin, green, issued 1930
Notes	Tinted halftone printed to the edges, no white border; large circular stain/watermark over the left side of the facade and dark smudges near the lower left. Postmark: CHICAGO, ILL. JUL 22 3 30 PM 1910 (machine cancel: KINZIE STA.). Divided back; pencil message written sideways along the left edge; light toning and edge wear; dealer pencil notation at lower right.

Cite this card

Hotel La Salle, La Salle and Madison Streets, Chicago, postcard, c. 1907. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/hotel-la-salle-la-salle-and-madison-streets-chicago. Accessed October 5, 2026.