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Lake View town hall
Chicago: its history and its builders, a century of marvelous growth

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Title
Lake View town hall
Creator
Watriss, A. W.  
Description
Caption: "Town Hall of the former city of Lake View: Built in 1872 at a cost of seventeen thousand dollars, corner Addison and Halsted streets. Photograph taken by A. W. Watriss". From text: "The name of the Township of Ridgeville was changed to Evanston on February 17th, 1857, accompanied by a change of boundaries. Lakeview Township, formerly a part of Ridgeville Township, was at the same time created, and has since been included within the city limits of Chicago."
Date
1912  
Type
Photograph  
File Name
chicagoitshistor02curr_0395.jp2
Source Page
http://www.archive.org/stream/chicagoitshistor02curr#page/328/mode/2up
Link to the Full-Text
http://hdl.handle.net/10111/UIUCOCA:Serial/chicagoitshistor
Subject
City & town halls  
Coverage-Spatial
Chicago (Ill.)  
Coverage-Temporal
1910-1919  
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: its history and its builders, a century of marvelous growth  
Author of the Book
Currey, J. Seymour (Josiah Seymour), b. 1844  
Collection Title
Picture Chicago
Collection
Picture Chicago
TitleLake View town hall
CreatorWatriss, A. W.  
DescriptionCaption: "Town Hall of the former city of Lake View: Built in 1872 at a cost of seventeen thousand dollars, corner Addison and Halsted streets. Photograph taken by A. W. Watriss". From text: "The name of the Township of Ridgeville was changed to Evanston on February 17th, 1857, accompanied by a change of boundaries. Lakeview Township, formerly a part of Ridgeville Township, was at the same time created, and has since been included within the city limits of Chicago."
Date1912  
TypePhotograph  
File Namechicagoitshistor02curr_0395.jp2
Source Pagehttp://www.archive.org/stream/chicagoitshistor02curr#page/328/mode/2up
Link to the Full-Texthttp://hdl.handle.net/10111/UIUCOCA:Serial/chicagoitshistor
SubjectCity & town halls  
Coverage-SpatialChicago (Ill.)  
Coverage-Temporal1910-1919  
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: its history and its builders, a century of marvelous growth  
Author of the BookCurrey, J. Seymour (Josiah Seymour), b. 1844  
Collection TitlePicture Chicago
CollectionPicture Chicago

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