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Photographer/Artist Unknown (3) Date of Original 1871 (2) 1888 (1) Subject.TGM1 Clubhouses (1) Newspapers (1) Public Libraries (1) Bookplates (1) Circulars (1)

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1.		Circular Requesting Donations to the New Free Library of Chicago, 1871.	Circulars; Newspapers	Ironically, the total devastation of the city by the 1871 fire led directly to the establishment of Chicago's Free Public Library. Money and supplies poured into Chicago as the world responded to the terrible...

2.		Bookplate of the English Book Donation	Bookplates;	Presented to the City of Chicago, toward the formation of a free library after the great fire of 1871, as a mark of English sympathy, by [inscribed by a staff member] Her Majesty the Queen Victoria. The...

3.		Austin Library Association Building, exterior view, 1888	Public libraries; Clubhouses;	The Austin neighborhood, named for the Honorable Henry W. Austin, came into existence in the mid-19th century as an independent village seven miles west of Chicago. At the time that this photograph was...

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