The Daily Background
| My National Archives Photo Contest Submissions
by Arlen Parsa
So, the National Archives is having a somewhat under-publicized photo contest where the goal is to take photos in the same spot as historical photos from their holdings. The trick is, you have to hold up the old photo from their archives and align it with today’s environment.
Noticing that only a few dozen entries have been cast ahead of its January 21st deadline, I thought I’d enter (the top 20 photos get made into postcards available at the NARA gift shop). Unfortunately their database of Chicago pictures that are digitized is somewhat sparse (and most aren’t explicit as to their location), but here are two photos whose locations I recognized. Hopefully I’ll have time to do some more photos like these– I had about twenty of the National Archives’ Chicago photos whose locations I recognized printed for free at CVS.
Montrose Beach jetty, Chicago, Illinois, 1973.
Montrose Beach jetty, Chicago, Illinois, 2010.
Loyola stop, Red Line, Chicago, Illinois, 1973.
Loyola stop, Red Line, Chicago, Illinois, 2011.
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