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Corner of Clark and Water Streets; Louis Kurz for Jevne & Almini, Lithograph, 1866-67 (ichi-62077)

Corner of Clark and Water Streets; Louis Kurz for Jevne & Almini, Lithograph, 1866-67 (ichi-62077)

Bygone Days in Chicago

from Frederick Francis Cook, Bygone Days in Chicago:  Recollections of the "Garden City" of the Sixties, 1910

(4840 words)
Chicago as It Was

from Grace Greenwood [Sara Jane Clarke Lippincott], New Life in New Lands:  Notes of Travel, 1873

(1942 words)

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