Fort Dearborn - Chicago World's Fair

Original Vintage Card
  
Sale Price: $9.95
Original Price: $15.95

Stock #:601537
Type: Postcard
Era: Linen
City: Chicago
State: Illinois (IL)
County: Cook
Publisher: Max Rigot Selling Co.
Postmark: 1931 May-13
Postmark City: Chicago
Postmark State: Ill.
Stamp: 1c
Philatelic Notes: Englewood Sta.
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)

Additional Details:
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 Massacre--eventful day in Chicago's pioneer history.

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