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James Parker collection

James S. Parker owned the firm Copelin Commercial Photographs that operated continuously in Chicago beginning in 1856. The collection's photographic negatives and prints extensively record Chicago's built environment.

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Bridges, viaducts, and underpasses: 18th St. Bridge 1 (AKA Grove St.) (Folder 48)
31 Images
Bridges, viaducts and underpasses included: 18th St. Bridge 1 (AKA Grove St.) (undated 4 x 5 negatives, 1935, 1966, 1967)
Date:
1935-1967
Collection:
James S. Parker Collection
Access:
Public access
Bridges, viaducts, and underpasses: Moveable bridges of Chicago (Folder 59)
246 Images
Community Activities bring the city's government into the neighborhood. Mayor Richard J. Daley's campaign for a cleaner Chicago reached out to students in Chicago's schools and made them part of the Junior Citizen's Committee for a Cleaner Chicago.
Date:
1994
Collection:
James S. Parker Collection
Access:
Public access
Bridges, viaducts, and underpasses: N. Halsted St. Viaduct through Jackson Blvd. Viaduct (Folder 41)
29 Images
Bridges, viaducts and underpasses included: N. Halsted St. Viaduct (rendering, 1960); Harrison St. Bridge (1940, 1958); Jackson Blvd. Bridge (1953); Jackson Blvd. Viaduct (over Kennedy) (1958)
Date:
1940-1960
Collection:
James S. Parker Collection
Access:
Public access

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Collection Details

Repository
University of Illinois Chicago. Library. Special Collections and University Archives Department (Richard J. Daley Library)
Collection Type
Manuscript Collections
Collection Location
Richard J. Daley Library
Theme
Natural & Built Environments
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3 Commercial art 3 Construction workers 3 Signs and signboards 3 Viaducts 2 Advertising 2 Construction and demolition debris 2 Movable bridges--Design and construction 2 Steel, Structural 1 Accidents 1 Aerial photographs 1 Anchors 1 Architectural design 1 Architectural ironwork 1 Architecture 1 Automobiles 1 Benches 1 Billboards 1 Boats and boating 1 Bridge railings 1 Bridges--Design and construction--Equipment and supplies 1 Buildings 1 Buses 1 Cables 1 Children 1 City planning 1 City traffic 1 Columns, Concrete 1 Concrete bridges 1 Concrete--Corrosion 1 Construction equipment 1 Decoration and ornament, Architectural 1 Dedication services 1 Drums (Containers) 1 Elevated highways 1 Expansion joints 1 Factories 1 Footbridges 1 Foundations 1 Hand-railing 1 Iron and steel bridges--Design and construction 1 Iron and steel bridges--Maintenance and repair 1 Landscapes 1 Lighting 1 Local transit stations 1 Machine industry 1 Metal castings--Welding 1 Movable bridges 1 Municipal officials and employees 1 Parking meters 1 Pavements, Asphalt 1 Pavements, Brick 1 Pavements, Concrete 1 Pedestrian areas 1 Pencil drawing 1 Plank roads 1 Play 1 Railing 1 Railroad tracks 1 Railroad yards 1 Railroads 1 Railroads--Freight 1 Reinforced concrete 1 Reinforced concrete--Corrosion 1 Riparian areas 1 Road work zones 1 Roads 1 Roads--Interchanges and intersections 1 Roads--Work zones 1 Scaffolding 1 Ships 1 Sidewalks 1 Sidewalks--Maintenance and repair 1 Skyscrapers 1 Stairs 1 Steel I-beams 1 Steel--Corrosion 1 Street lighting 1 Street-railroads 1 Tall buildings 1 Teenagers 1 Telephone lines 1 Traffic safety 1 Traffic signs and signals--Lighting 1 Truck-mounted cranes 1 Underpasses 1 Watchtowers 1 Welders (Persons) 1 Windows 1 Wooden beams 1 Wooden fences