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An Early Encounter with Tomorrow

- Europeans, Chicago's Loop, and the World's Columbian Exposition

About An Early Encounter with Tomorrow

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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  • Language:
  • English
  • ISBN:
  • 9780252069659
  • Binding:
  • Paperback
  • Pages:
  • 376
  • Published:
  • January 10, 2001
  • Dimensions:
  • 175x254x46 mm.
  • Weight:
  • 739 g.
Delivery: 2-4 weeks
Expected delivery: December 8, 2024

Description of An Early Encounter with Tomorrow

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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