Made in Chicago

Colored lithograph folding map (706 x 408 mm sheet). (A few splits at folds neatly repaired on verso.) Folding into printed covers (Cover title: "Travellers' and Shippers' Railway guide Map of Chicago"). Rare folding map depicting parks and major thoroughfares in color, with a directory of city street at bottom. Published in the decade following the Chicago Fire, this map depicts the rapid growth of the city during the period of great rebuilding in the years leading up to the World Columbian Exposition.