Historic Maps and Views of Chicago: 24 Frameable Maps and Views - Softcover

Granger Collection

 
9781579129170: Historic Maps and Views of Chicago: 24 Frameable Maps and Views
Softcover
ISBN 10: 157912917X ISBN 13: 9781579129170
Verlag: Black Dog & Leventhal, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

Historic Maps and Views of Chicago contains twenty-four historic maps and views of Chicago and its environs? Dating from the 1700s through the present? Ready for framing in a custom format or in a standard 11? x 14? frame. This stunning and fascinating selection of images from The Granger Collection includes Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable's cabin in 1820, Abraham Lincoln's funeral, maps before and after the great fire of 1871, the first skyscraper, images of the "White City" from World's Columbian Exposition in1893, as well as art from the groundbreaking 1909 Chicago Plan. Each image's original printing information is provided, as well as additional information that places it in historic context and further illuminates its qualities. Each image is exquisitely reproduced to show off its color and detail.

The perfect gift for lovers of travel, history, or art.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

For nearly a half-century as the most convenient and reliable source for the history of the world in pictures, The Granger Collection holds millions of images spanning more than 25,000 years of world history, from before the Stone Age to the dawn of the Space Age. The Granger Collection specializes in the history of people, places, things, and events represented in a variety of mediums including photographs, paintings, engravings, lithographs, and more.

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Verlag
Black Dog & Leventhal
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
157912917X
ISBN 13 
9781579129170
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
56
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Black Dog & Leventhal
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