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  • Collection: ITT Collection

arriving_ellis.jpg
Immigrants and urban life at the turn of the 20th century

home_insurance_chicago.jpg
Print shows the 10-story building that is considered the world's first skyscraper. Designed by architect William LeBaron Jenney, it stood in Chicago 1885 - 1931. The print is in an original custom frame.

first_flight.jpg
The invention of the airplane

interior_tenement.jpg
A photograph of the inside of a New York City tenement building

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Composite of five scenes showing a slum and views of an improved apartment building with playground, clubroom, and library.

chicago_traffic.jpg
An image that captures a very large traffic jam in Chicago, Illinois

new_york_city_industrial.jpg
Includes inset continuation map of Richmond and lists of manufacturing lines in New York City and the 5 boroughs.
1 map : col., mounted on linen 88 x 90 cm.

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Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated several experimental telephones at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition in 1876. This unit features a single electro-magnet and could be used both as transmitter and receiver. Bell approached the problem of…
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