1874 The City of Chicago
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Sketched and Drawn by: Parsons & Atwater
Originally Published by: Currier & Ives
Date of Original: 1874 (Published) New York
Original Size: 22.75 x 32.5 inches (57.8 x 82.5 cm)
This is a vintage map reproduction of the first issue bird's-eye-view print of the City of Chicago, originally sketched and drawn on stone by Parsons and Atwater and published by Currier and Ives. The work was later reprinted in 1892 by Currier and Ives in far greater numbers for the Columbian Exposition World's Fair in Chicago. This 1st edition lithograph print is rare to the market and OCLC notes just four other institutional examples.
Looking down on Chicago and out to an horizon of farms that would be known in the following century as Chicagoland, this fine print offers a vivid aerial perspective of Chicago as it was just 3 years after the Great Chicago Fire. Rebuilt on the ashes of old Chicago, the city has expanded along with its working class population and has established itself as an artery of a growing nation with regards to the massive amount of raw materials and manufactured goods making their way from the east to the Western Frontier via the canal and river systems or the rapidly growing railway.
Inventory # 12311