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Hotel and apartment building with painted advertisements

 

View looking northeast, showing a nineteenth-century hotel and an apartment building on West Ohio Street at the northwest corner of North Dearborn Street. The sides of the buildings are painted with advertisements for nearby businesses. There is a street-level parking lot in the foreground. The upper part of Water Tower Place and the John Hancock Center are visible behind them. On the right of the image, the rear of the Hotel Cass (now part of Holiday Inn Express) is visible.

About this item


Title:
Hotel and apartment building with painted advertisements
Date of Original:
1976; 1925 (Cass Hotel)
Identifier:
bru007_10_bF.tif
Permalink:
https://n2t.net/ark:/81984/d3bt2x
Type:
Image
Caption:
Brubaker's caption on the original slide reads "excessive signs - Nantucket Cove and Morry's".


Rights:
In copyright - non-commercial use permitted
Access:
Public access

Subject--Topic
Cities and towns
Streets
Signs and signboards
Architecture
Skyscrapers

Photographer:
Brubaker, Charles William, 1926-2002
Contributor:
Oldefest & Williams

Form:
Photographs
Medium:
color slides
Extent:
35 mm

Collection Information


Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Show more details:
Folder:
7
Repository:
University of Illinois at Chicago. Library. Special Collections and University Archives Department (Richard J. Daley Library)
Repository Collection Type:
Manuscript Collections
Repository Location:
Richard J. Daley Library

Geographic Information

Near North Side (Chicago, Ill.)
River North (Chicago, Ill.)