Guyer, I.D.:

$400 · Offered by William Reese Company · No longer available

HISTORY OF CHICAGO; ITS COMMERCIAL AND MANUFACTURING INTERESTS AND INDUSTRY; TOGETHER WITH SKETCHES OF MANUFACTURERS AND MEN WHO HAVE MOST CONTRIBUTED TO ITS PROSPERITY AND ADVANCEMENT, WITH GLANCES ... A wonderfully illustrated ante-fire commercial digest, including sections of all manner of business concerns in Chicago, such as bookbinders, hide traders, hoop skirt manufacturers, jewelers, lithographers, India rubber makers, brewers, etc., with a chapter on "comedy in Chicago." The two tinted lithographic plates advertise a billiard table manufacturer and a lithographer. The double-page frontispiece compares a drawing of Chicago in 1820 to a bird's-eye view of the city in 1862. A scarce work providing a fascinating window on the bustling commercial activity of ante-fire Chicago.

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