Vintage Chicago,
printed to last.
Every print starts with an actual vintage Chicago matchbook, photographed by hand in the studio, not pulled from a digital file.
Museum of Science & Industry, Shedd Aquarium
The institutions everyone remembers, the way they actually looked on a matchbook cover.
Shop Landmarks
Rooms long gone, still remembered
Hotels that changed names, changed hands, or closed for good, kept alive by their own matchbooks.
Shop Historic Hotels
Berghoff, Italian Village, and the rooms that stayed
The spots that were there for decades, the kind of place a matchbook used to come from every table.
Shop Bars & RestaurantsShot from the object
Every matchbook is a real physical piece, photographed once in the studio (not a downloaded file or a phone snapshot of an old photo).
Archival, fine-art printing
Matte, archival paper on every size, five by seven up to twenty-four by thirty-six.
A specific niche
Not generic Chicago photography: the actual venue, the actual era, the detail in the print.
The one people keep coming back for
Museum of Science & Industry has appeared in a third of every order this shop has ever shipped, more than any other print in the catalog.
See the Landmarks collection
One print is nice.
A set tells a story.
A few of these prints are available as curated sets, three vintage Chicago spots side by side on a wall. A good gift for anyone with a soft spot for this city.
Collect the SetSource. Shoot. Print.
Source the object
A real vintage matchbook, found and kept, not a scan pulled from someone else's archive.
Shoot it in studio
Photographed once, by hand, under real studio light, at full resolution.
Print it archival
Matte, fine-art paper on every size, five by seven up to twenty-four by thirty-six.
This isn't tourist-brochure Chicago. It's for people who remember a bar, a hotel, a corner of this city that mattered to them, and want a piece of it that's real.