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Larger cities would be covered by multiple volumes of maps. Between editions of published volumes, map updates were sent out as correction slips. Sanborn employees, called "pasters" or "correctors", would visit subscribers' offices to paste the slips on top of the old maps. [4] [5] [6] The map volumes contain an enormous amount of information.
Goodspeed Publishing was established by Westin Arthur Goodspeed in the late 19th century and was based in Nashville, Tennessee, [1] St Louis, Missouri [2] and Chicago, Illinois. [3] By the early 1880s Goodspeed had success with a series of state and regional histories in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and other northern states, and went on to repeat that ...
Chicago Daily Telegraph, 1878–1881 (became Chicago Morning Herald) Chicago Daily Times, 1929–1948 (merged with Chicago Sun to form Chicago Sun-Times) Chicago Democrat, 1833–1861; Chicago Democratic Press, 1852–1857; Chicago Evening Mail, 1870–1875 (became Post & Mail) Chicago Evening Post, 1865–1875 (became Post & Mail)
1871 Map of Chicago: The shaded area was destroyed by the Great Chicago Fire. Many of South Michigan Avenue's elegant villas were destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. [13] The post-fire South Side of Chicago grew rapidly as all economic classes left the city's center. Many of Chicago's elite families settled along Prairie Avenue.
1870: 1,471: 123.6%: 1880: 2,314: 57.3%: 1890: ... Kirksville Area Economic Development; Historic maps of Kirksville in the Sanborn Maps of Missouri Collection at the ...
Books published in the 1870s. 1820s; 1830s; 1840s; 1850s; 1860s; ... 1870 books (2 C, 13 P) 1871 books (5 C, ... Pages in category "1870s books"
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By 1870, Chicago had grown to become the nation's second-largest city and one of the largest cities in the world. Between 1870 and 1900, Chicago grew from a city of 299,000 to nearly 1.7 million and was the fastest-growing city in world history.