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1.		C.W. Caryl to James W. Ellsworth, November 14, 1893	Exhibition buildings; Deterioration; Conservation & restoration; Meetings	Typed letter, signed. Just two weeks after the close of the Fair, Chicagoans were already thinking about how to save the majestic, yet deteriorating, buildings of the World’s Columbian Exposition. In...

2.		Court of Honor, ca. 1893	Fairs; Monuments; Flags; Flagpoles; Fountains; Canals; Gondolas; Buildings; Optical illusions; Waterways; Gardens	In 1890, nearly twenty years after the Great Chicago Fire and at the zenith of his career as an urban planner and landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmsted found the opportunity to resurrect his plan...

3.		Sunset on the Dream City	Gondolas; Sailboats; Boats; Sunrises & sunsets; Clouds; Smoke; Buildings;	Facsimile watercolor.

4.		View of Chicago in Ruins from the Michigan Avenue Hotel, 1871	Ruins; Buildings; Hotels	Stereograph. View of Chicago in Ruins from the Michigan Avenue Hotel, 1871. Lovejoy & Foster, photographers. Fifty years of steady growth ended on October 8, 1871, when the Great Chicago Fire destroyed...

5.		View from Lake View House, from Chicago Illustrated	Wooden buildings; Houses; Waterfronts; Trees; Sand; Settlements	Chicagoans lived in houses built of wood, and the city extended several miles along the sandy dry shore of Lake Michigan. Literary description by James W. Sheahan. Illustrations by the Chicago Lithographing...

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