View of the south and west façades of the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building from the roof of the Machinery Hall with the Columbian Fountain on the left and Grand Basin in the foreground, 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exhibition, Chicago, Illinois

People:

Charles Dudley Arnold (photographer)
Frederick William MacMonnies (sculptor)
John Wellborn Root (architect)
Daniel Hudson Burnham (architect)
George B. Post (architect)
Henry Codman (landscape architect)
Frederick Law Olmsted (landscape architect)

Title:

Date:

1893

Description:

- This photograph shows two bridges connecting the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building with the Electricity Building across the North Canal.

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 18.1 x 21.6 cm

Reference number:

PH1981:0494

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 photograph PH1981:0493: with the name, dimensions and cost of the Manufacturers and Liberal Arts Building and the name of the architect imprinted and dated - by an unknown hand, in white ink ? in the image, l.r.: "COPYRIGHT 1893 BY C.D.ARNOLD [sic]"

Location:

Chicago; Illinois; United States;

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

entrances
fountains
figures (representations)
statues
bridges (built works)
exhibition buildings
world's fair
peristyle (colonnade)
artificial canal

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

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