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Semi-Centennial Celebration Chicago Fire
Chicago, a history and forecast

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Title
Semi-Centennial Celebration Chicago Fire
Description
Text in image: "Chicago the Great Central Market. Semi-Centennial Celebration Chicago Fire October 2-15". Caption: "Poster proclaiming celebration of Great Fire anniversary. The personifying figure of Chicago was given to the city by The Inter Ocean, March 20, 1892, when that paper, now extinct, but long maintained as a Republican authority by Wm. Penn Nixon, was in possession of H. H. Kohlsaat. The artist, whose conception had the approval of a distinguished jury, was Charles Holloway. Here for the first time Chicago saw its characteristic vigor and purpose in symbolic portraiture, artistically executed, and its genius lastingly proclaimed in a perfect motto. Shortly after the Chicago Tribune produced a city seal for popular use, and later the Chicago Association of Commerce introduced therein the potent advertising legend, "The Great Central Market." The motto of the current Great Fire anniversary--"Undaunted--We Build"--is the happy invention of Maurice Blink, president of the Commercial Art Engraving Company.""
Date
1921  
Type
Photograph  
File Name
chicagohistoryfo00harp_raw_0014.jp2
Source Page
http://www.archive.org/stream/chicagohistoryfo00harp#page/n13/mode/1up
Link to the Full-Text
http://hdl.handle.net/10111/UIUCOCA:chicagohistoryfo00harp
Language
eng
Subject
Anniversaries  
Coverage-Spatial
Chicago (Ill.)  
Coverage-Temporal
1920-1929  
Publisher
  • University of Illinois at Chicago  
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  
Rights
No Copyright - United States
Rights Description
Images in this collection were digitized through the University of Illinois Library's participation in the Open Content Alliance and may be used freely. Attribution to the University of Illinois is appreciated. High-resolution images can be downloaded from the Internet Archive at www.archive.org. For further information, contact dcc@library.uiuc.edu.
Book Title
Chicago, a history and forecast  
Author of the Book
Harper, William Hudson, 1857-  
Collection Title
Picture Chicago
Collection
Picture Chicago
TitleSemi-Centennial Celebration Chicago Fire
DescriptionText in image: "Chicago the Great Central Market. Semi-Centennial Celebration Chicago Fire October 2-15". Caption: "Poster proclaiming celebration of Great Fire anniversary. The personifying figure of Chicago was given to the city by The Inter Ocean, March 20, 1892, when that paper, now extinct, but long maintained as a Republican authority by Wm. Penn Nixon, was in possession of H. H. Kohlsaat. The artist, whose conception had the approval of a distinguished jury, was Charles Holloway. Here for the first time Chicago saw its characteristic vigor and purpose in symbolic portraiture, artistically executed, and its genius lastingly proclaimed in a perfect motto. Shortly after the Chicago Tribune produced a city seal for popular use, and later the Chicago Association of Commerce introduced therein the potent advertising legend, "The Great Central Market." The motto of the current Great Fire anniversary--"Undaunted--We Build"--is the happy invention of Maurice Blink, president of the Commercial Art Engraving Company.""
Date1921  
TypePhotograph  
File Namechicagohistoryfo00harp_raw_0014.jp2
Source Pagehttp://www.archive.org/stream/chicagohistoryfo00harp#page/n13/mode/1up
Link to the Full-Texthttp://hdl.handle.net/10111/UIUCOCA:chicagohistoryfo00harp
Languageeng
SubjectAnniversaries  
Coverage-SpatialChicago (Ill.)  
Coverage-Temporal1920-1929  
Publisher
  • University of Illinois at Chicago  
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  
RightsNo Copyright - United States
Rights DescriptionImages in this collection were digitized through the University of Illinois Library's participation in the Open Content Alliance and may be used freely. Attribution to the University of Illinois is appreciated. High-resolution images can be downloaded from the Internet Archive at www.archive.org. For further information, contact dcc@library.uiuc.edu.
Book TitleChicago, a history and forecast  
Author of the BookHarper, William Hudson, 1857-  
Collection TitlePicture Chicago
CollectionPicture Chicago

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