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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: 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.

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

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