Curious City: Coastline maps at the Newberry by chicagopublicmedia ● portfotolio

chicagopublicmedia: The next step of our investigation into Chicago's coastline: The Newberry Library

chicagopublicmedia: WBEZ reporter Robin Amer, Newberry maps curator James Akerman and question-asker Miriam Reuter examine maps of Chicago's coastline at the Newberry library

chicagopublicmedia: James Akerman, maps curator at the Newberry Library, shows us an old road map from the 1960s

chicagopublicmedia: WBEZ reporter Robin Amer and question-asker Miriam Reuter learn more about the history of Chicago's coastline

chicagopublicmedia: Miriam Reuter, Curious City question-asker, takes a closer look at some of the coastline maps pulled from the Newberry

chicagopublicmedia: James Akerman, Newberry maps curator, points out

chicagopublicmedia: A map of the 1812 coastline shows very little detail or destructions, which change with later maps

chicagopublicmedia: Miriam reads aloud from an inscription on an old map of Chicago's coastline

chicagopublicmedia: WBEZ reporter Robin Amer, Newberry maps curator James Akerman and question-asker Miriam Reuter examine maps of Chicago's coastline at the Newberry library

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chicagopublicmedia: WBEZ reporter Robin Amer, Newberry maps curator James Akerman and question-asker Miriam Reuter examine maps of Chicago's coastline at the Newberry library

chicagopublicmedia: This is only a handful of the maps pulled for us from the Newberry Library map collection!