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Fort Dearborn Chicago World's Fair

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Stock #: 175079
Type: Postcard
Era: White Border
City: Chicago
State: Illinois (IL)
County: Cook
Publisher: Max Rigot Selling Co.
Postmark: 1931 Dec-14
PM City: Chicago
PM State: Il
Stamp: 1C
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)

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Series 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 block house and barracks of the old fort whose inhabitants were victims in 1812 of the Dearborn Massacreeventful day in Chicago's pioneer history

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