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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: Dearborn St. Bridge through Franklin-Orleans St. Bridge (Folder 39)
28 Images
Bridges, viaducts and underpasses included: Dearborn St. Bridge (1963); Division St. Bridge (1964 [ trash dumping], 1968); Franklin-Orleans St. Bridge (1935, 1953)
Date:
1935-1963
Collection:
James S. Parker Collection
Access:
Public access
Bridges, viaducts, and underpasses: Michigan Ave. Viaduct 10 (Folder 26)
14 Images
Bridges, viaducts and underpasses included: Michigan Ave. Viaduct 10 (1997)
Date:
1997
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: Ohio St. Bridge and Polk St. Bridge (Folder 44)
19 Images
Bridges, viaducts and underpasses included: Ohio St. Bridge (1958); Polk St. Bridge (1935, 1941, 1944, 1966)
Date:
1935-1958
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 Concrete bridges 3 Iron and steel workers 3 Pavements, Concrete 2 Bridge railings 2 Concrete bridges--Corrosion 2 Concrete bridges--Foundations and piers--Corrosion 2 Concrete construction 2 Construction and demolition debris 2 Elevated highways 2 Movable bridges--Design and construction 2 Signs and signboards 2 Viaducts--Design and construction 2 Watchtowers 1 Advertising 1 Aerial photographs 1 Architectural design 1 Architectural ironwork 1 Automobiles 1 Barges 1 Benches 1 Boats and boating 1 Bridges--Foundations and piers 1 Buildings 1 Buses 1 Cables 1 Cement mixers 1 Children 1 City traffic 1 Columns, Concrete 1 Construction workers 1 Control boards (Electrical engineering) 1 Decoration and ornament, Architectural 1 Drums (Containers) 1 Electric conduits 1 Electric wiring 1 Employees 1 Factories 1 Footbridges 1 Foundations 1 Gates 1 Hoisting machinery 1 Iron and steel bridges--Maintenance and repair 1 Landscapes 1 Lighting 1 Local transit stations 1 Movable bridges 1 Parking meters 1 Pavements, Asphalt 1 Plates 1 Plates, Iron and steel--Welding 1 Play 1 Public works 1 Railing 1 Railroads 1 Refuse and refuse disposal 1 Reinforced concrete--Corrosion 1 Riparian areas 1 Road work zones 1 Roads 1 Roads--Guard fences 1 Roads--Interchanges and intersections 1 Scaffolding 1 Ships 1 Sidewalks--Maintenance and repair 1 Skyscrapers 1 Stairs 1 Steel I-beams 1 Steel construction 1 Steel--Corrosion 1 Street lighting 1 Structural steel workers 1 Tall buildings 1 Teenagers 1 Telephone lines 1 Traffic safety 1 Traffic signs and signals--Lighting 1 Truck-mounted cranes 1 Truss bridges--Design and construction 1 Truss bridges--Maintenance and repair 1 Underpasses 1 Viaducts 1 Waterfronts 1 Windows 1 Wooden beams