This is half or a Stereoview showing Haymarket Square in Chicago, early 1900's. For those not up on Chicago history Harmarket was famous for ariot in the late 1800's where anarchists threw a bomb that killed something like eight police officers which is the cause of the monument seen in the photo. Chicago Historical or the police historical has a nice online site about it but I don't have it bookmarked. I'm sure a google search would turn it up for anyone with interest. This photo isn't great, the card pretty dirty and curved so hard to scan but you can see in it some of the architecture and in the lower left a policeman wearing the same period "keystone cop" kind of uniform as that on the statue.
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