• Charles Dudley Arnold (photographer)
• Henry Codman (role unspecified)
• John Wellborn Root (architect)
• Solon S. Beman (architect)
• Van Brunt and Howe (architectural firm)
• Daniel Hudson Burnham (architect)
• Frederick Law Olmsted (landscape architect)

View of the north and east façades of the Electricity Building from the east bank of the Lagoon with the Mines and Mining Building in the background, 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exhibition, Chicago, Illinois

1892

- This photograph shows a bridge connecting the Electricity Building to the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building on the left and a bridge connecting the Electricity and Mines Buildings to the Wooded Island on the right, both across the Lagoon. The towers of the Machinery Building are under construction in the left background.

Albumen silver print

comp.: 10.5 x 17.4 cm

PH1981:0492

• exterior view

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 Electricity Building and the name of the architect inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the sheet, verso, c.l. to c.: with title

Chicago; Illinois; United States;

• architecture

• entrances
• balcony
• domes
• towers (building divisions)
• bridges (built works)
• exhibition buildings
• construction
• cupolas
• world's fair
• artificial lagoon