SIXTH ANNUAL REVIEW OF THE COMMERCE, MANUFACTURES, AND THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE IMPROVEMENTS OF CHICAGO, FOR THE YEAR 1857: WITH A FULL STATEMENT OF HER SYSTEM OF RAILROADS, AND A GENERAL SYNOPSIS OF THE BUSINESS OF THE CITY. COMPILED FROM SEVERAL ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN THE CHICAGO DAILY PRESS.
Chicago, Illinois: Democratic Press Mammoth Steam Printing Establishment, 45 Clark Street, 1858. 56pp, disbound in original printed wrappers. Pages 49-56 are advertisements. Text printed in double columns, Very Good.
The Review is a detailed rendering of Chicago's bustling commercial activities during 1857, with valuable material on railroads, City improvements, the Illinois Central, water works and sewage; hotels, boarding houses, other retail establishments; the trade in flour, wheat, hogs, and other commodities; manufacturing data, with information on different city establishments. With excellent advertisements, some illustrated.
Tanner has identified two issues of this pamphlet, based on the wrapper imprint: our copy, with the "Democratic Press Mammoth Steam Printing..." imprint, is the first; the second has the imprint, "Press and Tribune mammoth steam printing..."
Ante-Fire Imprints 302. Byrd 2887. Tanner, Some Corrections and Emendations... 2887. Not in Eberstadt, Decker, Sabin. Item #31642
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