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Documents the mixture of amazement and alarm with which European visitors greeted 1890s Chicago: as a futuristic city animated by a crass, frenetic mercantile class. This volume contains a bibliography, arranged by country and profiles of the foreign observers. It is illustrated with over seventy photographs, drawings, paintings and cartoons.

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Winner of the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History, the American Philosophical Society, 1998.

An Early Encounter with Tomorrow

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      Publisher: University of Illinois Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 11/01/2001
      ISBN13: 9780252069659, 978-0252069659
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      Book Synopsis
      Documents the mixture of amazement and alarm with which European visitors greeted 1890s Chicago: as a futuristic city animated by a crass, frenetic mercantile class. This volume contains a bibliography, arranged by country and profiles of the foreign observers. It is illustrated with over seventy photographs, drawings, paintings and cartoons.

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      Winner of the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History, the American Philosophical Society, 1998.

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