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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.
The book was published in the Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Volume 18, Part 2. Cyrus Thomas wrote the extensive introduction explaining the legal framework and land acquisition policies of various imperial entities.
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.
A History of Chicago from Town to Ciry 1848-1871 Vol II (1940) Pierce, Bessie Louise. A History of Chicago, Volume III: The Rise of a Modern City, 1871-1893 (1957) excerpt; Reiff, Janice L., Ann Durkin Keating and James R. Grossman, eds. The Encyclopedia of Chicago (2004), with thorough coverage by scholars in 1120 pages of text, maps and photos.
Vol. I. Chicago : Privately printed for the author by the Blakely Press. —— (1804). American bibliography: a chronological dictionary of all books, pamphlets and periodical publications printed in the United States of America, 1730-1750. Vol. II. Chicago : Privately printed for the author by the Blakely Press. —— (1805).
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"
Union Stock Yards, Chicago, 1947. The Union Stock Yard & Transit Co., or The Yards, was the meatpacking district in Chicago for more than a century, starting in 1865. The district was operated by a group of railroad companies that acquired marshland and turned it into a centralized processing area.
In 1890, James Clarke published the Americanized Encyclopædia Britannica, Revised and Amended which was only 10 volumes, as was the 1895 Belford-Clark issue by the same name (Chicago). In addition to American unauthorized copies, there were American supplements which were written to be appended to authorized copies of Britannica.