City - Chicago, IL - Novelties and Jewelry 1868 Poster

Hand colored photo from between 1868
Original title: View from dome of City Hall, looking N.E
Photographer: Copelin & Melander
Location: Randolph & Clark, Chicago, IL

Col Woods museum, had a long history of burning down. The museum was founded in 1864, he had a great number of unusual finds (he was very similar to Barnum's museum). He had a sixty cases of birds, sheets of papyri that had once belonged to Joseph Smith (founder of the Latter Day saints movement), a pair of mummies, assorted reptiles, a panorama of London, many model ships, paintings of Indians, a rifle owned by Daniel Boone, a scale model of the Parthenon, the "Great Zeuglodon" (which was a 96 foot long skeleton of a Basilosaurus, and more, and all for just 25 cents ($4.80 in today's money).

Then it burned down in 1871 during the great fire, this entire area was destroyed. So he rebuilt it and opened in 1875, with all new exhibits. Then it burned down again. Then he opened it again in 18...

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