Photomechanical reproductions of photographs of Chicago with accompanying poetry by Horace Spencer Fiske.

Includes images of artworks, paintings, bas-reliefs, ruins of the Chicago fire, river and boat views, museums, parks, bridges, college buildings and campuses, beaches, library exterior and interior views, monuments, scenes of The World's fair, fountains, residences, bird's-eye views, skyscrapers, municipal buildings, post offices, churches, steel works, construction sites and street views.

Complete transcription from t.p.: "Chicago in Picture and Poetry by Horace Spencer Fiske, author of The Ballad of Manila Bay and Other Verses. Provincial Types in American Fiction: etc. With one hundred illustrations."

Includes images of artworks, paintings and bas-reliefs from notable Chicago buildings.