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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... |
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| Description: | A sketch of the sidewheel passenger, Lady Elgin, at her wharf in Chicago, Illinois. |
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| Description: | View from shoreline towards boats at a dock in the Fox Lake Area. A man and woman are standing in a sailboat, another man is standing on the dock, and a an... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for William Deering & Company featuring chromolithograph illustrations of the Deering factory, the grain center of the worl... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Chicago, with ships in the Lake Michigan harbor. |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of the Columbian Exposition pavilions from the vantage point of Lake Michigan. Included is an inset of the Union Passenger Station (now Uni... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Pier and a ship at Chicago, taken from aboard another vessel. Taken by the Richard Lloyd Jones family during their move from Madison to Tulsa, Oklahoma. |
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| Description: | View along shoreline of the hotel with wrap-around porches on the shore of Fox Lake. There are canoes near a pier, and small outbuildings among trees. |
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| Description: | View from shoreline towards a group of people at the end of a pier standing near or on two sailboats. A shoreline is in the far background. |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Color illustration of the grounds and buildings of the 1893 World's Fair or Columbian Exposition. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of replicas of the Niña, Pinta and Santa Maria docked in a harbor among many boats. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view from shoreline towards the McCormick Works on the opposite shoreline. There is a boat in the river near a tugboat. There is a light ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View across water towards ship, the "Northman Fairport," at a dock at McCormick Works. Factory buildings are in the background. In the foreground is a wall... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View looking down at ship at dock. A man stands at the edge of the dock just under the painted name of the ship, "Northwestern." Stacks of wheels are near ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across canal towards McCormick works. There are piles of parts along the shipping dock. A large church building is in the far distance. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view over canal of docks and ships at the dock. In the background are railroad cars on a railroad track, factory buildings, and smokestacks. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View along dock towards a boat with two decks (float?) anchored in harbor at McCormick Works. Painted on the back of the boat is a sign that reads: "McCorm... |
| Date: | 04 30 1927 |
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| Description: | "Beaverton" steamship at a dock at McCormick Works. |
| Date: | 04 19 1927 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline across a canal towards a Canada Steamship Line ship docked at McCormick Works. |
| Date: | 09 21 1907 |
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| Description: | View of clipper ships at waterfront at McCormick Works. Stacks of lumber are near the wharf on the right. |
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