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Garden City hat : Packer, McDonald & Bliss : 149 & 151 Market St. Chicago

Description: Image of three scenes flanked by advertisement text and ship masts, a barrel, and anchor; bird's eye view of the bustling city of Chicago, Illinois, along the shore of Lake Michigan with docks, ships, and city buildings visible, bottom center; Native Americans on foot and on horseback with a rifle and spears look out over a lake and a settlement, top left; the city of Chicago engulfed in flames during the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, top right.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1881-1887
Call number: priJLC_FASH_001672
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)

View of the great fire in New-York, Decr. 16th. & 17th. 1835 : as seen from the top of the bank of America. Cor. of Wall & Wm. St

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Image of an elevated view of the ruins of the Merchants' Exchange and surrounding buildings at Wall Street and William Street in New York City engulfed by flames during the Great New York Fire of December 16-17, 1835, with rows of firefighters, spectators, men moving cargo boxes and barrels, and some horse-drawn wagons; one building on fire has the sign "Fulton Fire Insurance Company."

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Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul R'y. : The tourists and sportsman's favorite route

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Image of a poster advertising the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul railroad divided into three panels with a center engraved image of a steam locomotive, tender, and U.S. Mail car on tracks beside a lake in the countryside, with a centered logo of a horseshoe labeled "Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul Ry. / They strike the right road." The top and bottom panels have silhouette images of individuals carrying items related to tourist activities including mining, hunting, and fishing, with a lower caption, "Happy return of the pilgrims."

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View of the great fire in New York, Decr. 16th & 17th, 1835 as seen from the top of the Bank of America. Cor. of Wall & Wm. St

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Image of an elevated view of the ruins of the Merchants' Exchange and surrounding buildings at Wall Street and William Street in New York City engulfed by flames during the Great New York Fire of December 16-17, 1835, with the street filled with rows of firefighters, spectators, men moving cargo boxes and barrels, and some horse-drawn wagons; one building on fire has the sign "Fulton Fire Insurance Company."

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This is to certify that Charles M. Tainter has served as a Fireman in the city of Buffalo

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Image of a firefighter's exempt membership certificate from the City of Buffalo made out in manuscript for Charles M. Tainter (presumably Charles M. Taintor) dated February 23, 1857, and signed by Mayor Frederick P. Stevens and City Clerk William H. Albro, with a top center vignette of a fireman standing in the center of a town square in Buffalo, New York, next to a woman and child, a man dressed in a costume similar to that of a Roman soldier with a robe, spear, sandals, and hat, and a kneeling woman writing a document that begins "Certificate of Disch[arge]", with firefighting equipment in the foreground including a hose, ladder, hat, rope, and speaking trumpet, and buildings, a statue, fire hydrant, lighthouse, steamboat, ship masts, and the shores of Lake Erie in the background and a flying angel with wings and a trumpet at top center obscuring a banner that reads "Buffalo Fire Department."; the certificate has a blue embossed seal of the City of Buffalo and a vignette at bottom center of firefighting equipment including preventers, censers, and ax.

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Pan-Handle route : Union Passenger Station, Chicago, Ill

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Image of an elevated street view of the brick Union Passenger Station building in Chicago, Illinois, with a busy street scene in the foreground containing pedestrians, horse-drawn carriages and wagons, two men riding high-wheel bicycles, and people on horseback; a locomotive and train car are visible to the left and ship masts are visible behind the buildings; two lower corner vignettes depict an empty waiting room and porch.

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Image of an aerial landscape view of the city and harbors of Sydney, Australia, showing the urban landscape and ports bustling with ships.

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