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Category : Business enterprises
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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Author: James Wellington Norris
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Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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Author: Joseph Sabin
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 590

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Author: Bessie Louise Pierce
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226668398
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 523

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The first major history of Chicago ever written, A History of Chicago covers the city’s great history over two centuries, from 1673 to 1893. Originally conceived as a centennial history of Chicago, the project became, under the guidance of renowned historian Bessie Louise Pierce, a definitive, three-volume set describing the city’s growth—from its humble frontier beginnings to the horrors of the Great Fire, the construction of some of the world’s first skyscrapers, and the opulence of the 1893 World’s Fair. Pierce and her assistants spent over forty years transforming historical records into an inspiring human story of growth and survival. Rich with anecdotal evidence and interviews with the men and women who made Chicago great, all three volumes will now be available for the first time in years. A History of Chicago will be essential reading for anyone who wants to know this great city and its place in America. “With this rescue of its history from the bright, impressionable newspapermen and from the subscription-volumes, Chicago builds another impressive memorial to its coming of age, the closing of its first ‘century of progress.’”—E. D. Branch, New York Times (1937)

Author: Newberry Library
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226775791
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 890

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The Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana consists of some 10,000 books, manuscripts, maps, pamphlets, broadsides, broadsheets, and photographs, of which about half are described in the present catalogue. The Graff Collection displays the remarkable breadth of interest, knowledge, and taste of a great bibliophile and student of Western American history. From this rich collection, now in The Newberry Library, Chicago, its former Curator, Colton Storm, has compiled a discriminating and representative Catalogue of the rarer and more unusual materials. Collectors, bibliographers, librarians, historians, and book dealers specializing in Americana will find the Graff Catalogue an interesting and essential tool. Detailed collations and binding descriptions are cited, and many of the more important works have been annotated by Mr. Graff and Mr. Storm. An extensive index of persons and subjects makes the book useful to the scholar as well as to the collector and dealer. The book is not a bibliography but rather a guide to rare or unique source materials now enriching The Newberry Library's outstanding holdings in American history.

Author: Joseph Sabin
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368124129
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 577

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.

Author: Illinois State Historical Society
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 908

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Author: Joseph Sabin
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752521201
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 574

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.

Author: Homer Hoyt
Publisher: Beard Books
ISBN: 9781587980169
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 554

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Author: Edward Gay Mason
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Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 774

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