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Chicago Then and Now

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Chicago today is a diverse and dynamic city, melding her status as international capital of commerce with downn-home Midwestern good nature. Boston, philadelphia, and New York owe big debts to European tradition, but Chicago, with her broad, spacious streets so perfectly rectilinear, and her gigantic, rule-breaking architecture, is one hundred percent American. Chicago is America's immigrant city, a patchwork of outside of Warsaw, Chicago also contains tight-knit communities of Mexican, Russian, Irish, Italian Chinese, Vietnamese, Czech, ......rnChicago Then and Now pars archival, black-and white photos from the nineteenth and early twentieth century with full color views from today to tell a story of the city's history. Historic photos may not exist for every street or neighbohood; likewise, historic streets or neighborhoods in a boomstown like Chicago may themselves no longer exist. Pairs have been selected based on symmetry (or lack of it), historic importance, and popular interest

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R 776 NUL c

Publisher

San Diego, California : Thunder Bay Press., 1971

Collation

p. 146: 25 cm

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

1571452788

Classification

Fotografi

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Edition

Cet.1, 1971

Subject(s)

Fotografi
Chicago

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