Chicago’s Busy Day – Beginning Preparations for the Great Fair
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A New Yorker’s perspective on the upcoming Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
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Description
Always eager to remind Chicagoans of the first behind the ‘Second City’, New York’s Puck magazine issued this sheet of cartoons mimicking the backwater host of the upcoming World’s Fair. Chicago narrowly beat out New York for Congressional approval the same year of publication, and apparently jealous feelings were still fresh.
The amusing panels note Chicago’s lack of sophistication, largely agrarian economy, and the industry of local, albeit raggedy, anarchists.
Map Details
Publication Date: 1891
Author: J. Ottman Lithograph Company
Sheet Width (in): 12.6
Sheet Height (in): 9.5
Condition: A-
Condition Description: Lightly toned around the outer edges and a small chip in the lower left corner. Very good.
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