'printing out' photograph of the ship PROGRESS at the South Pond area of the 1893 Columbian Exposition, Chicago

photograph

PHOTOGRAPHS
Harrison
USA, IL, Chicago
circa 1893
overall: 4 3/4 x 6 1/4 in.

A 'printing out' photograph of the ship PROGRESS at the South Pond area of the 1893 Columbian Exposition, Chicago; "PROGRESS" and "NEW BEDFORD" legible on her stern,"'PROGRESS" visible on port side, bow; dressed with flags, gangway visible on starboard side; moored near the Anthropological Building and at the site of the village of the Quackuhl Indians, with totem poles and tepees visible in background; originally named CHARLES PHELPS, part of the New Bedford fleet used in the Stone Fleet during the Civil War; later took part in the rescue of whalers in the Arctic in 1871; sold and renamed PROGRESS, she was towed up the St. Lawrence River to Chicago for the Exposition; later condemned by the City of Chicago


1965.171

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World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
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