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| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | Lithograph from Frank Leslie's Illustrated News of the sidewheel passenger, Lady Elgin, at her wharf in Chicago, Illinois in 1860. From a pho... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Midway Pleasance viewed from Illinois Central Viaduct; large Ferris wheel in background; large crowd, mostly walking in the direction of the Ferris wheel. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Columbian Exposition; North side of Midway Pleasance viewed from Madison Avenue. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Libby Prison at the Columbian Exposition. Several carts, horses in front of the building. |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for William Deering & Company featuring a chromolithograph of Worlds Fair foreign commissioners observing Deering grain bin... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for harvesting machinery made by the Plano Manufacturing Company. Features a color illustration of a woman on a stage crown... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Drawing of the C.H. & L.J. McCormick Reaper Manufactory (McCormick Reaper Works). The factory was built after the Chicago Fire of 1871 destroyed the origin... |
| Date: | 04 05 1862 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Camp Douglas near Chicago. Caption reads: "Camp Douglas, near Chicago, Illinois, where seven thousand rebel prisoners are quartered." |
| Date: | 04 05 1862 |
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| Description: | Group of Confederate prisoners of war assembled in prison barracks. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Flags hanging above a McCormick Harvesting Machine display at what is possibly the World's Columbian Exposition (The World's Fair of 1893). A painting of a... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | View of the Columbian Exposition grounds from Lake Michigan. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Cyanotype scenic view of the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition grounds showing the U.S. Government Building and a bridge over the lagoon. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Cyanotype view of the Illinois Building at Chicago's World's Columbian Exposition showing a gondola and motor launch on the lagoon near a bridge. A wing of... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | A cyanotype view of the Horticulture Building at the World's Columbian Exposition with the dome of the Illinois Building in the background. There is a mot... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | A cyanotype view across lagoon from shoreline of the U.S. Government Building (right), and the Fisheries building (left). There is a bridge over the lagoon... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | A cyanotype view of the World's Columbian Exposition grounds from near the North Loop elevated railway station, showing the glass dome of the Horticulture ... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | A cyanotype view of Cairo Street on the midway of the World's Columbian Exposition. An Egyptian with a large drum rides a camel as men and boys watch. The ... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Three men in Arab dress pose in front of the base of an obelisk on the Midway at the World's Columbian Exposition. A gentleman in western dress also poses ... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | A cyanotype photograph of a man in oriental dress on the Midway of the World's Columbian Exposition. He stands behind a gate; a sign warns, "No Admittance ... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | A view of the World's Columbian Exposition mounted on a cardboard album page, looking east from the Transportation Building. On the right are the Mines Bui... |
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