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Subject.TGM1 Advertisements (1) Buildings (1) Covers (Illustration) (1) Exhibition Buildings (1) Exhibitions (1) Fairs (1) Greenhouses (1) Hotels (1) Land (1) Ruins (1)

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1.		Daniel H. Burnham to Lyman J. Gage, President of the World’s Columbian Exposition, February 13, 1891.		Daniel H. Burnham’s original 1891 cost estimate for construction of the World’s Columbian Exposition topped $16,000,000. While the Exposition company was expected to bear the greatest financial responsibility...

2.		Illinois Central Rail-Road Company Offer (sic) for Sale Over 2,400,000 Acres, Selected Prairie, Farm and Wood Lands	Covers (Illustration); Advertisements; Selling; Land	In the decade between 1850 and 1860, the Illinois Central had transformed the face of the Chicago lakefront, and had stimulated the development of the city's outlying areas. The era of railroad growth...

3.		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...

4.		World's Columbian Exposition Horticultural Building	Exhibition buildings; Exhibitions; Water; Greenhouses; Fairs; Temporary buildings	The World's Columbian Exposition ran from May 1 to October 30, 1893. The Horticultural Building was "250 by 298 feet, with eight greenhouses, the dimensions of which are 24 by 100 feet each. The area covered...

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