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Lumber District,
Harper's Weekly, 1886
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An 1886
Harper's Weekly
engraving of Chicago's lumber district viewed from the West Side Water Works (near Ashland and Blue Island). The large factory on the top left is the McCormick Works at Western and Blue Island.
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