May 25
The first interview with Author Anne Durkin Keating on the footprint of the fort and some historical photos!
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The first interview with Author Anne Durkin Keating on the footprint of the fort and some historical photos!
Plan of Fort Dearborn in what is now Chicago, January 25, 1808.
Record Group 77: Records of the Office of the Chief of Engineers
Series: Fortifications Map File Plans of Military Forts
File Unit: Drawer 130
Image description: Drawing of buildings around a central square, and additional buildings further out. The front of each building is shown, oriented to the direction it faces, so that buildings facing north are upside down.
Image description: Detail of the plan, showing a few buildings with notations like “to be replaced”.
Image description: Detail of the plan, showing part of the circle of trees that surround the fort.
PRR train, engine number 3682, engine type 4-6-2 and engine number 1987, engine type 4-6-2 and engine number 5072, engine type 4-6-2 Train #75, The Fort Dearborn, on Horseshoe Curve; 16 cars, 35 MPH. Photographed: near Altoona, Pa., August 18, 1933.
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PRR train, engine number 5474, engine type 4-6-2 Train #75, The Fort Dearborn; 9 cars, 45 MPH. Photographed: at Chicago, Ill., August 7, 1937.
A little sneak peek of the Doc....with our author. Anne Durkin Keating....
On the way to screen my other Documentary The Murals, I went right past where the subject of my new project is....The Battle of Fort Dearborn Park...and other places in downstate Illinois....