The Lost City!: Drama of the Fire Fiend! Or Chicago, as it Was, and as it Is! and Its Glorious Future! a Vivid and Truthful Picture of All of Interest Connected with the Destruction of Chicago and the Terrible Fires of the Great North-west ...Wells, 1872 - 316 pages "Numerous plates from art engraved by the Actinic Engraving Co., Moss Process...These are some of the earliest photo-engravings done in the United States."--Hanson Collection catalog, p. 43. |
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