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Conception by Hugh Ferriss of how the Ford Exhibition building will look at night
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The building is nine hundred feet long and ten stories in height at its center. It faces upon a five acre park fronting Lake Michigan. Albert Kahn of Detroit is the architect, and Walter Dorwin Teague of New York, the industrial designer, is in charge of the interior display.
Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access


Bridges, viaducts, and underpasses: Moveable bridges of Chicago (Folder 59)
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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: 18th St. Bridge 5 (Folder 55)
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Bridges, viaducts and underpasses included: 18th St. Bridge 5 (1966)
Date:
1966
Collection:
James S. Parker Collection
Access:
Public access


Concept drawing for the Ford Building
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Date:
1933-1934
Collection:
Century of Progress records
Access:
Public access


Apartment buildings, West North Shore Avenue
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View looking northeast across West North Shore Avenue at apartment buildings on the north side of that street. 1054-1056 W. North Shore Avenue is on the left side of the image; 1050 W. North Shore Avenue is next to it on the right. Lake Michigan is visible on the far right.
Date:
1982; 1917 (1054-1056 West North Shore Avenue); 1921 (1050 West North Shore Avenue)
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access


Bridges, viaducts, and underpasses: 23rd St. Viaduct through 91st St. Bridge (Folder 57)
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Bridges, viaducts and underpasses included: 23rd St. Viaduct (1952, 1953, undated ); 31St St. and California Bridge (1954); 31st St. and Western (Bridge (1954); 35th St. Bridge (undated drawing); 91st St. Bridge (1944)
Date:
1944-1954
Collection:
James S. Parker Collection
Access:
Public access