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1.		First Annual Statement of the Trade and Commerce of Chicago, for the year ending December 31, 1858: reported to the Chicago Board of Trade by Seth Catlin, Superintendent	Ships; Shipping; Documents; Commerce;	Included in this commerce report to the Chicago Board of Trade is a listing of the various craft which sailed between Chicago and other lake ports during the 1859 season. Schooners made up the majority...

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.		S.S. Alabama in the Chicago Harbor, 1934	Steamboats; Buildings;	Photograph. The most photographed Goodrich steamer of all time, the Alabama was commissioned in 1910, and served on the cross-lake passenger and cargo route for many years. The Goodrich Transit Company...

4.		S.S. Illinois in Chicago, 1917	Steamboats; Ships;	Photograph. A combination freight-and-passenger steamer, the all-steel Illinois, sister ship to the S.S. Missouri, was built in South Chicago in 1899 for the Northern Michigan Transit Company. In 1922,...

5.		S.S. Isle Royale on the Chicago River, 1933	Steamboats; Ships; Skyscrapers;	Photograph. The Isle Royale Line became the new owners of the former S.S. Manitou. The Isle Royale's run was Chicago and Lake Superior, but by the middle of the Depression, she was out of service and partly...

6.		S.S. Manitou on Lake Michigan, 1917	Steamboats; Lakes & ponds;	Photograph. Built in 1893 for the Lake Michigan & Lake Superior Transportation Company, the Manitou provided express service for the Chicago-Mackinac Island route for 40 years. During this period she changed...

7.		S.S. Minnesota, n.d.	Steamboats; Lakes & ponds;	The S.S. Minnesota began as the iron-package freighter, the Harlem, in Wyandotte, Michigan in 1888. In 1911, she was converted to a passenger steamer for her new owner, the Chicago & Duluth Transportation...

8.		S.S. Missouri, August 11, 1934	Steamboats; Lakes & ponds;	Built in 1904 for the Northern Michigan Transportation Company of Chicago, the Missouri was sister ship to the S.S. Illinois. In the days before highway transportation for freight and mail, these vessels...

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