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Chicago by day and night (1892)

[Vynne, Harold Richard] [from old catalog] · Chicago, Thomson and Zimmerman · leaf 208

An illustration from Chicago by day and night, 1892, leaf 208
her portion of the city. Itmight almost be called a negro colony, so manycolored people reside in it; but there are also largenumbers of foreigners—the scum of the laro-ecities of Europe—who are fruit-peddlers and or-gan-grinders by day and by night—heaven onlyknows what! They herd together like… … 202 several families, as many as a score of personssleeping in one room. So desperate are many of Cheyennes knowncharacters that no policeman who patrols a beat inthat locality is permitted to do so alone. The of-ficers move about in squads, armed to the teeth,for they never know when a gang of…

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