Middle West Gallery

Mississippi River and the city of Minneapolis, 1870s

Minneapolis, village of St. Anthony, and St. Anthony's Falls on the Mississippi River, Minnesota, 1870s.
Hand-colored woodcut 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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Flames reaching the waterfront, Chicago Fire, 1871

Flaming buildings and boats on the Chicago River during the Great Fire, 1871.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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