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Chicago South Park Commission, Plan of the South Open Ground..., as proposed to be laid out by Olmsted, Vaux & Company, Landscape Architects, 1871
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| Title | Chicago South Park Commission, Plan of the South Open Ground..., as proposed to be laid out by Olmsted, Vaux & Company, Landscape Architects, 1871 |
| Description | The design for Chicago's park system began in 1869, with Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux's ambitious proposal for the South Park. |
| Neighborhood/Street/Venue | Jackson Park (Chicago, Ill.)
Washington Park (Chicago, Ill.)
Michigan, Lake
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| Subject.LCSH | Parks -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Design and construction -- History -- 19th century
City planning -- Environmental aspects -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 19th century
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| Photographer/Artist/Creator | Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903
Vaux, Calvert, 1824-1895
Olmsted and Vaux (Firm)
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| Contributors | New York Lithographing and Engraving Co.
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| DateOfOriginal | 1871 |
| Time Period | 1870; 1871; 1872; 1873; 1874; 1875; 1876; 1877; 1878; 1879 |
| Repository Name | Chicago Public Library Special Collections and Preservation Division
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| Repository Number | MAP SPE-CCW 47/36 |
| Language | eng; |
| Collection | Chicago City-wide Collection
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| Rights | http://www.chipublib.org/aboutcpl/cplpolicies/policies/photo_reproduct.php |
| Type | Digital image; |
| Format | image/jpeg; |
| Original format | Maps
Lithographs
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| Size | 4 x 5.9 in. |
| Subject.LOCAL | breakwaters
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