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Mail at Union Station

Mail at Union Station


Title	Mail at Union Station
Description	Caption: "The fast mail at Union Station". From text: "Chicago to-day is the greatest mail center on the continent. Seven hundred tons of this concentrated commerce flow through her gates every twenty-four hours. From every point of the compass, it comes to this great hopper to be ground out, separated, and sent to its destination. Why is this? It is because Chicago is the focal point of the continental fast mail lines. It is the point where the great links of the transcontinental mail chains are joined together."
Date	1906
Type	Photographs
Identifier	chicagogreatcent321906chic_0055.jp2
Source	http://www.archive.org/stream/chicagogreatcent321906chic#page/52/mode/2up
Physical Location	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Format	image/jp2
Subject Name	Union Station (Chicago, Ill.)
Subject	Postal service Railroad stations
Coverage-Spatial	Near West Side (Chicago, Ill.)
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	People Industry Interior Scenes
Collection	Picture Chicago
Book Title	Chicago, the Great Central Market : a magazine of business
Link to the Full-Text	http://hdl.handle.net/10111/UIUCOCA:chicagogreatcent321906chic

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