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A Map of Chicago's gangland from authentic sources: designed to inculcate the most important principles of piety and virtue in young persons, and graphically portray the evils and sin of large cities.
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| Filename | NL000067.tif |
| Call Number | Map oversize G 10896.548 |
| Creator | Bruce-Roberts, Inc. |
| Title | A Map of Chicago's gangland from authentic sources: designed to inculcate the most important principles of piety and virtue in young persons, and graphically portray the evils and sin of large cities. |
| Date (Original) | 1931 |
| Physical Description | 1 map, col.; 48 x 62 cm. |
| Language | eng |
| Source | Digital image scanned from original map. |
| Publisher | [Chicago]: Bruce-Roberts, Inc., 1931. |
| Description | Map of Chicago gang locations showing Little Italy, Little Sicily, Cicero, Capone Territory, Westside O'Donnell Territory, Stickney, Saltis Territory, Southside O'Donnell Territory, Little Africa.; Numbers in red circles give the sequence of important events in Chicago's gangland war.; Insets include: Mrs. O'Leary's cow, lawyer running to spring his client, an armored car, bootleggers stealing wheels from prohibition cars, machine gunners arriving from Detroit, World's Fair grounds of 1933, police tipping over a speakeasy. |
| Subject | Chicago (Ill.); Crime; Gangs; Prohibition; Capone, Al, 1899-1947; Pictorial Maps |
| File Size | 397.719 kb |
| File Height | 480 |
| File Width | 593 |
| Type | Image |
| Publisher (Digital) | The Newberry Library, Chicago. |
| Rights | All rights reserved by the Newberry Library. Permission to reproduce in any format must be requested in writing. Contact Photoduplication Department, Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton St., Chicago, IL 60610. Phone: 312-255-3566. E-mail: photoduplication@newberry.org |
| Collection | Great Lakes Digital Collection (Newberry Library) |
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