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| Title | Post Office |
| Description | Caption: "The Post Office The new Post Office Building, one of the most magnificent postal structures in the United States, is located in a square formed by Adams, Clark and Dearborn streets and Jackson Boulevard. The delay in its completion caused many spirited controversies. From this great central station radiate forty-seven carrier stations, four stations without carriers, and two hundred sub-stations, in all employing 1, 633 clerks, 1, 400 carriers and collectors. The annual receipts aggregate about $10, 000, 000 and more than 50, 000 tons of mail are handled each year." View is looking northwest. Building was designed by Henry Ives Cobb. |
| Date | 1906 |
| Type | Photographs
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| Identifier | chicago00lhne_raw_0009.jp2 |
| Source | http://www.archive.org/stream/chicago00lhne#page/6/mode/2up |
| Physical Location | University of Illinois at Chicago |
| Format | image/jp2 |
| Subject Name | Cobb, Henry Ives
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| Subject | Post offices
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| Coverage-Spatial | The Loop (Chicago, Ill.)
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| Date of Content | 1900-1909 |
| Publisher | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; University of Illinois at Chicago |
| Rights | Images in this collection were digitized through the University of Illinois Library's participation in the Open Content Alliance and may be used freely. Attribution to the University of Illinois is appreciated. High-resolution images can be downloaded from the Internet Archive at www.archive.org. For further information, contact dcc@library.uiuc.edu. |
| Sub-Collection | Buildings
Street Scenes
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| Collection | Picture Chicago
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| Book Title | Chicago |
| Author of the Book | L. H. Nelson Company |
| Link to the Full-Text | http://hdl.handle.net/10111/UIUCOCA:chicago00lhne |
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