View of the east façade of the Horticultural Building under construction from the Wooded Island with the Lagoon in the foreground, 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exhibition, Chicago, Illinois

People:

Charles Dudley Arnold (photographer)
Frederick Law Olmsted (landscape architect)
Daniel Hudson Burnham (architect)
John Wellborn Root (architect)
William LeBaron Jenney (architect)
Henry Codman (landscape architect)

Title:

View of the east façade of the Horticultural Building under construction from the Wooded Island with the Lagoon in the foreground, 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exhibition, Chicago, Illinois

Date:

1892

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 15.9 x 19.8 cm sheet: 17.6 x 21.0 cm

Reference number:

PH1981:0498

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 and dated - by an unknown hand, in white ink ? in the image, l.r.: "COPYRIGHT 1892 BY C.D.ARNOLD. [sic]"

Location:

Chicago; Illinois; United States;

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

entrance
greenhouse
domes
exhibition building
construction
world's fair
artificial lagoon
glass dome

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

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