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Chicago River before 1871


Title	Chicago River before 1871
Description	Caption: "Looking east from Rush Street bridge in days before the Great Fire, when a forest of masts distinguished the traffic of the Chicago River. Permission of International Harvester Company."
Date	1860-1869
Type	Photographs
Identifier	chicagohistoryfo00harp_raw_0042.jp2
Source	http://www.archive.org/stream/chicagohistoryfo00harp#page/36/mode/1up
Physical Location	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Format	image/jp2
Subject	Sailing ships Shipping
Coverage-Spatial	The Loop (Chicago, Ill.) Chicago River (Ill.)
Date of Content	1860-1869
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	Waterfronts
Collection	Picture Chicago
Book Title	Chicago, a history and forecast
Author of the Book	Harper, William Hudson, 1857-
Link to the Full-Text	http://hdl.handle.net/10111/UIUCOCA:chicagohistoryfo00harp