Valparaiso
Valparaiso names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Valparaiso a city and county of Porter co.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city and county of Porter co., Ind.; on the Pennsylvania, -seat the New York, Chicago and St. Louis, and the Chicago and Grand Trunk railroads; 44 miles E. of Chicago. It is in an agricultural section. Here are the Valparaiso University, the Northern Indiana Normal School, several National and State banks, and a number of daily and weekly newspapers. The city has clock factories, machine shops, an iron foundry, etc. Pop. (1910) 6,987; (1920) 6,518. VALPARAISO ("the vale of Paradise"), the chief seaport of Chile; in a province of the same name; area, 1,775 square miles; pop. about 350,000); 90 miles W. N. W. of Santiago, the capital, with which it is connected by railway. It is built at the base of steep, bare hills about 1,600 feet high, and round the head of a bay which possesses good anchorage, but is exposed to S. winds, and therefore unsafe in winter. The streets are narrow and often steep, but are well paved, and some of them are traversed by tramways. The houses are substantial, and often elegantly decorated. The public buildings include a number of important educational and charitable institutions, besides churches and theaters. The city has been greatly damaged by earthquakes on various occasions (notably in 1822, 1829, 1851, and 1906), as well as by a bombardment by a Spanish fleet on March 31, 1866. The climate is good, but dry, little rain falling except during the three winter months. The annual mean temperature is 58°. The chief items of export are copper and copper ore, gold, silver, cereals, wood, hides, and tallow. Pop. (1918) 212,659.
Valparaiso val-pa-ri'so
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
val-pa-ri'so, the chief seaport of Chile. It is situated opposite Santiago, the capital. Charleston, South Carolina , and Valparaiso are about equally distant from the equator. The city has a fine harbor and is advantageously situated to command a large amount of the Pacific coast trade. There are large floating docks. The city is substantially built, with railroads, telegraphs, and telephone lines, and a sewage system. A bountiful supply of water is obtained from an artificial reservoir in the mountains capable of holding, it is said, 25,000,000,000 gallons. The population in 1907 was 160,800. See Chile
Valparaiso CHILE THE ARSENAL, VENICE CHARLOTTE AMALIE
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
CHILE THE ARSENAL, VENICE CHARLOTTE AMALIE, VIRGIN ISLANDS HARBOR OF VLADIVOSTOK GRAND CANAL, VENICE Opposite page 276 ERUPTION OF STROMBOLI VOLCANO MT. PELEE, WHICH DESTROYED ST. PIERRE A LAVA FLOW ON KILAUEA GRAND OPERA HOUSE, WARSAW
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's put Chilean Valparaíso's population at 212,659 in 1918 and listed copper ore, cereals, hides and tallow as its exports; the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914 had already begun draining away the Cape Horn traffic that made it the Pacific's great entrepôt. The city itself now holds roughly 300,000 people within a metropolitan area of about a million, its steep hillside quarter was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2003, and since 1990 it has housed Chile's National Congress, moved there from Santiago. It remains a major port, though the neighbouring harbour of San Antonio has taken much of the container trade. The Indiana namesake has grown the other way from Collier's declining 6,518: a Chicago exurb of some 34,000, still the seat of Porter County and home to Valparaiso University, which grew out of the Northern Indiana Normal School the entry lists separately.
Written for this edition, 2026.