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[Douglas Monument, Chicago, Ill.] – Vintage Wall Art

[Douglas Monument, Chicago, Ill.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Douglas Monument, Chicago, Ill.], [between 1900 and 1910]. Historic photograph from the Chicago collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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The monument in this view honors Stephen A. Douglas, the Illinois senator known as the "Little Giant," who lost the 1858 Senate race to Abraham Lincoln and then debated him that year. Douglas died in 1861, and his tomb on Chicago's South Side, completed in the early 1880s, became a landmark of the city's effort to honor him. This glass-plate negative is one of many views the Detroit Publishing Company made of American cities and monuments around 1900 to 1910, when the firm was producing photographs for sale as postcards and illustrated books.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Behm" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 034696. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsDouglas, Stephen Arnold,--1813-1861--Monuments. Monuments & memorials.United States--Illinois--Chicago.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan800 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-67509

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