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Catalog: Details
Blanchard's Guide Map of Chicago.... Chicago, 1873. Folding map 20 x 16 with original but faded
hand-color and separations at folds repaired. Four round dark stains in title, possibly glue residue. Lacks
street directory. Pencil note in old hand verso of front fly. SOLD
This cerographic map is colored by wards and contains red over-printed notices referring to the
Crystal Palace Exposition Hall and indicating limits of the Great Fire in 1871. Marcia Selmer's
"Rufus Blanchard: Early Chicago Map Publisher" (in Chicago Mapmakers, Michael Conzon, ed.,
1984) discusses Blanchard's career.
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