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Map of Chicago; showing the parks, boulevards, and burnt district – Historic Map Reproduction

Map of Chicago; showing the parks, boulevards, and burnt district, [no date recorded on caption card] — antique map
Map of Chicago; showing the parks, boulevards, and burnt district, [no date recorded on caption card]. Antique map 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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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Map of Chicago; showing the parks, boulevards, and burnt district. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Map of Chicago; showing the parks, boulevards, and burnt district

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Few maps of Chicago show the city's parks and boulevards alongside the district destroyed by fire, which makes this one a record of two things at once. The Great Chicago Fire of October 1871 consumed much of the downtown and nearby neighborhoods, leaving tens of thousands of residents without homes. This picture reproduces a drawing by the Chicago firm Colbert & Chamberlain and appeared as an illustration in the book *Chicago and the Great Conflagration*. The caption card records no date, so it is best read as a document of the city as it was described in the years after the fire.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 print.
NotesRepro. of drawing by Colbert & Chamberlain. Illus. in: Chicago and the Great Conflagration, p. 109. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Maps; Publ. Index; Fires; Geogr.; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,012 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-141745

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