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Subject: Re: [CZ] Re: CZECH-D Digest V01 #593
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 23:35:43 EDT
In a message dated 10/22/01 6:24:48 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
writes:
> My g-g-grandparents lived at 24 Wright, 6th Ward, late 1860's to early
> 1870's. Is this in the area some of you are discussing? Is there a city
> map
> directory that far back that would help me locate this address?
Dear Diane:
Several years ago I wrote to the Map Library at the Library of Congress in
Washington,DC to get a copy of a map for Chicago just before the Great Fire
of 1871. I needed a neighborhood between Congress and 28th Street - the near
West Side. They sent me a copy of that particular neighborhood from 1869.
It was FREE. The citation was "Illinois, Chicago, 1869, 1:31,000 ,
Blanchard."
If you go to the following web site, maybe you can find out where to write:
http://www.loc.gov
My map does not show Wright Street (Avenue). I think it is either east or
just south of my 1869 map. In 1869 Ward 6 was changed from east of my
neighborhood (Ward 9) described above, to south of the Chicago River.
Hopefully, this will help some.
Karen Langer
Laguna Niguel, CA
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