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Title: Fort Dearborn
Publication Information: Max Rigot Selling Co
Contributing Institution: California State University, Fresno
Collection: Worlds Fair Collection
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Description: 1A857
Blockhouse and soldiers' barracks of the "third Fort Dearborn", reappear on the shore of Lake Michigan as part of the 1933 Century of Progress Exposition. Near here stood the original blockhouse and barracks of the old fort whose inhabitants were victims in 1812 of the Dearborn Massacre - eventful day in Chicago's pioneer history.
Type: image
Format: 13.9 cm. x 9.0 cm.
Identifier: EXP933a.107pc
http://digitized.library.fresnostate.edu/cdm/ref/collection/worldsfair/id/16246
Subject: Century of Progress International Exposition
Place: Chicago, Illinois
Source: Donald G. Larson Collection on International Expositions and Fairs
Relation: World's Fair Collection

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