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Stores on Wabash Avenue, Chicago, 1890s

Bretano's and other retail shops on Wabash Avenue south of Monroe Street, Chicago, 1890s.
Albertype reproduction of a photograph

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Italian immigrants in New York City, 1890s

Mulberry Street, center of the Italian immigrant neighborhood in New York City, 1890s.
Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century illustration

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Market in the French Quarter of New Orleans, 1870s

Native American and black merchants in a French Quarter market, New Orleans, 1870s.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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