CHICAGO RIVER-AND-HARBOR CONVENTION An Account of Its Origin and Proceedings . Together With Statistics Concerning Chicago
Published by Fergus Printing, Chicago, 1882
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12mo,208 pages, untrimmed wrappers, 1 short tear else fresh Fergus Historical Series no.18. Includes William Mosley Hall's speech, "A National Railroad to the Pacific," the first on this subject, Chicagoans focussed on getting support for the Illinois & Michigan Canal, which would tie together the western waters of the Great Lakes with the great inland navigable rivers. "The meeting of that Convention raised the value of the Chicago property at once, and was the starting point of its unheard of prosperity - Wm. M. Hall, Commissioner." This is a much expanded, annotated and indexed treatment of the original 1847 publication. This convention caused Abraham Lincoln's first visit to Chicago, which he addressed on two occasions in its 3 days. [see Howes C371; Gutter, Between the Waters and the Wind, 14].
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- CHICAGO RIVER-AND-HARBOR CONVENTION An Account of Its Origin and Proceedings . Together With Statistics Concerning Chicago
- Author
- FERGUS, Robert, compiler
- Publisher
- Fergus Printing, Chicago
- Publication year
- 1882
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Flexible covers
- Edition
- First Collected edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Americana, HISTORY::United States::19th Century, HISTORY::United States::State & Local::Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI), TRANSPORTATION::Navigation, TRANSPORTATION::Railroads::General
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Joyce And Company, established 1975, works out of an office near Chicago's Loop. There are usually 15-20,000 books on-site and available for browsing. Mr. Joyce was a founding partner of the former Chicago Rare Book Center, of Chicago and Evanston, Illinois. Proprietor Tom Joyce appeared regularly as the book appraiser on "The Appraisal Fair", seen on Home And Garden Television, HGTV. We still do appraisals on a wide variety of subjects, from literature to history, fine books, children's, presses, theology, law, medicine, maps, autographs. These topics are reflected in our inventory, and much more, including Sherlockiana. In addition to regional institutions nearby Chicago and Illinois, we have been able to place rare materials with the American Antiquarian Society, The Library of Congress, The Bodleian Library, Harvard and Yale Universities, the Presidential Libraries of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington, et cetera.
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