View of the north and east façades of the Machinery Hall showing the Agricultural Building on the left and the Administration Building on the right from across the Grand Basin, 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exhibition, Chicago, Illinois

People:

Charles Dudley Arnold (photographer)
McKim, Mead & White (architectural firm)
John Wellborn Root (architect)
Richard M. Hunt (architect)
Daniel Hudson Burnham (architect)
Peabody & Stearns (architectural firm)
Henry Codman (landscape architect)
Frederick Law Olmsted (landscape architect)

Title:

Date:

1893

Description:

- This photograph shows a bridge connecting the Machinery Hall to the Agricultural Building across the South Canal.

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 17.8 x 20.9 cm

Reference number:

PH1981:0493

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

inscribed - by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink, on a double-sided label inserted within the mly-board holding the photograph: with the name and dimenesions of the Machinery Hall and the name of the architect inscribed - by an unknown hand, in white ink ? in the image, l.l.: "COPYRIGHT 1893 BY C.D.ARNOLD. [sic]"

Location:

Chicago; Illinois; United States;

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

entrances
fountains
figures (representations)
statues
domes
towers (building divisions)
bridge (built work)
exhibition buildings
construction
world's fair
artificial canal

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

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