View of the east façade of the Woman's Building from the north bank of the Lagoon, 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exhibition, Chicago, Illinois

People:

Charles Dudley Arnold (photographer)
Frederick Law Olmsted (landscape architect)
John Wellborn Root (architect)
Henry Codman (landscape architect)
Daniel Hudson Burnham (architect)
Sophia G. Hayden (architect)

Title:

View of the east façade of the Woman's Building from the north bank of the Lagoon, 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exhibition, Chicago, Illinois

Date:

1892

Description:

- This photograph shows the Children's Building under construction on the left.

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 10.9 x 18.2 cm

Reference number:

PH1981:0491

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

inscribed - by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink, on a label inserted within the mly-board holding the photograph: with the name, dimensions and cost of the building and the name of the architect inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the sheet, verso, c.l. to c.: with title [diagonally]

Location:

Chicago; Illinois; United States;

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

entrance
stairs
figures (representations)
parapets
balconies
statues
exhibition buildings
construction
world's fair
artificial lagoon
day care centre
peristyle (colonnade)

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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