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Howdy from Chicago

Date
Date unconfirmed
State
Illinois
City
Chicago
Format
Postcard

A broad waterfront view dominates this card. The compact greeting and city name frame the skyline without breaking it into individual letter windows.

Chicago’s twentieth-century lakefront was shaped in part by the 1909 Plan of Chicago, which called for public open space along Lake Michigan. The waterfront perspective on this postcard shows how closely the lake and the city’s skyline are tied together.

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