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About The Field Museum The Field Museum resides on the ancestral homelands of the Three Fires Confederacy: The Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi. The area was also a site of trade, gathering and healing for more than a dozen other Native tribes. Illinois is currently home to more than 100,000 tribal members. Our respect and gratitude to the many Native people who live here today, as well as their ancestors. The Field Museum is an educational institution concerned with the diversity and relationships in nature and among cultures. It provides collection-based research and learning for greater public understanding and appreciation of the world in which we live. Its collections, public learning programs, and research are inseparably linked to serve a diverse public of varied ages, backgrounds and knowledge.

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Page 71 of Accounting Administration from Financial Ledger from World's Columbian Exposition 1893 uploaded October 2013
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Young girl holding a newspaper uploaded October 2010
C.C. & P. Railway log train uploaded September 2010
Man on horse behind oxen uploaded September 2010
Hilton Dodge and Company, Lower Bluff Mill. uploaded September 2010
Men rolling logs down ramp uploaded September 2010
General view of Darien uploaded September 2010
"Old Tabby," ruins of abandoned building uploaded September 2010

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Mammoth and Giant Octopus

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Hart Noecker said:
Mortal enemies in the wild, best of friends in captivity.
Total Kamok said:
go for the roof octo !
Exclusive Bear said:
Is that the same Octopus that is hanging in the "What is an Animal?" exhibit at the Field Museum today?
Peter D. Tillman said:
That Octo is one creepy-looking critter. Added to commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:World_Columbian_Expos... Thanks for posting these!
Virginia Weir said:
I have a pre-columbian embroidary that hung in the Chicago World's Fair. It was given to my Great Grandfather by Arlon Higginbothem of Joliet Il. How would I get it appraised? It still has the original fair tags.

Unloading dirt at the Tabernilla dumps

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Retired at last said:
Easier than the navvies had it with their wheelbarrows.
nzdetective said:
Thanks for sharing this image. I looked it up as it is mentioned in a book called The Works of Man (1985), by author David W Clark, although he spelled it Ledgerwood with an e. The single quote marks are used within this excerpt as he wrote it, to quote his sources: EXCERPT from page 104: As work at the [Culebra] Cut progressed, 200 miles (320 kilometres) of railway line were laid down, tier above tier, to move the excavated soil. Scores of steam shovels and thousands of men were employed to keep the movement going and special equipment was designed and built to help them. There was, for instance, the Ledgerwood Unloader. 'Railway trucks provided with flaps were used, these flaps making a single platform of the whole train,' it has been written of the contraption. 'At the rear of the train was a plough which could be drawn by a wire road attached to a drum carrier on a special car in the forepart of the train. When the car arrived at the dumping ground the drum was started, and the plough, advancing from the rear, swept the 320 cubic yards of rock from the sixteen cars in seven minutes.' Progress was also helped by the 'track shifter', invented by one of the canal workers, which raised track and ties clear of the ground and laid them down up to nine feet away."