Item #2682 History of the Great Chicago Lake Tunnel, the Causes Which Led to its Conception, the Great Undertaking, Obstacles Encountered, How the Work Was Performed, Launch of the Crib, the New Water Works Building, Etc. Together With Sketches of the Visits of Several Illustrious Parties to the Works, and a Midnight Train of Cars Beneath Lake Michigan. Also the Successful Completion of the Great Enterprise.
History of the Great Chicago Lake Tunnel, the Causes Which Led to its Conception, the Great Undertaking, Obstacles Encountered, How the Work Was Performed, Launch of the Crib, the New Water Works Building, Etc. Together With Sketches of the Visits of Several Illustrious Parties to the Works, and a Midnight Train of Cars Beneath Lake Michigan. Also the Successful Completion of the Great Enterprise.
History of the Great Chicago Lake Tunnel, the Causes Which Led to its Conception, the Great Undertaking, Obstacles Encountered, How the Work Was Performed, Launch of the Crib, the New Water Works Building, Etc. Together With Sketches of the Visits of Several Illustrious Parties to the Works, and a Midnight Train of Cars Beneath Lake Michigan. Also the Successful Completion of the Great Enterprise.
History of the Great Chicago Lake Tunnel, the Causes Which Led to its Conception, the Great Undertaking, Obstacles Encountered, How the Work Was Performed, Launch of the Crib, the New Water Works Building, Etc. Together With Sketches of the Visits of Several Illustrious Parties to the Works, and a Midnight Train of Cars Beneath Lake Michigan. Also the Successful Completion of the Great Enterprise.
History of the Great Chicago Lake Tunnel, the Causes Which Led to its Conception, the Great Undertaking, Obstacles Encountered, How the Work Was Performed, Launch of the Crib, the New Water Works Building, Etc. Together With Sketches of the Visits of Several Illustrious Parties to the Works, and a Midnight Train of Cars Beneath Lake Michigan. Also the Successful Completion of the Great Enterprise.
History of the Great Chicago Lake Tunnel, the Causes Which Led to its Conception, the Great Undertaking, Obstacles Encountered, How the Work Was Performed, Launch of the Crib, the New Water Works Building, Etc. Together With Sketches of the Visits of Several Illustrious Parties to the Works, and a Midnight Train of Cars Beneath Lake Michigan. Also the Successful Completion of the Great Enterprise.

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History of the Great Chicago Lake Tunnel, the Causes Which Led to its Conception, the Great Undertaking, Obstacles Encountered, How the Work Was Performed, Launch of the Crib, the New Water Works Building, Etc. Together With Sketches of the Visits of Several Illustrious Parties to the Works, and a Midnight Train of Cars Beneath Lake Michigan. Also the Successful Completion of the Great Enterprise.

Chicago: Published by Jack Wing, 1868. McNally & Co., 81 Dearborn Street, Dealers in Books, Stationery and Periodicals. Western Agents for the Trade. Hazlitt & Reed, Printers, 90 Washington St. 4to (12” x 9.5”), original purple cloth, gilt title at cover, blind-stamped borders to both covers. [9], 12–72, [2] pp., illus., ads. CONDITION: Good, head and foot of spine chipped, covers discolored, especially along lower edge of front cover, small losses of cloth at lower edge of front cover and corners, light foxing to paste-downs, light damp-stain in upper margin of text block.

Second edition, identified on the title page as “Hotel edition.” Scarce account of the construction of the Chicago Lake Tunnel, built as a means of supplying the city with clean water, and generally considered one of the most remarkable engineering feats of the period. By the 1860s the waters in the immediate vicinity of Chicago were so badly polluted that the city faced a water supply crisis. Various solutions were proposed before the city adopted that of engineer E. S. Chesbrough to build a tunnel two miles in length beneath the floor of Lake Michigan, in order to tap the clean water at a distance from the city. The first edition of this fascinating account was published in 1867. This “Hotel Edition” was expanded with various advertisements, several of which incorporate the illustrations of tunnel construction that appeared in the first edition. OCLC records only three copies of the Hotel Edition, at the Library of Congress, the Newberry Library and the Chicago History Museum. A very interesting ante-fire publication. 

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