Chicago Gallery

Crowds at the Chicago worlds fair at night

Columbian Exposition visitors strolling along the midway at night, Chicago 1893.
Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century illustration

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Dearborn Avenue, Chicago, 1890s

Chicago's Dearborn Avenue north of Chestnut Street: Newberry Library, Unity Church, and New England Congregational Church (left-right), 1890s.
Albertype reproduction of a photograph

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Grain barges leaving Chicago for the Erie Canal

Barges loaded with grain from Chicago bound for the Erie Canal, under tow on Lake Michigan, 1870s.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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