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image list for job-file HB-22694 of the
Hedrich-Blessing photograph collection, part 1, at Chicago History Museum,
Research Center
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Title: Models of possible configuration of buildings for Chicago Federal Center, 1959 Sept. 16.
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View A: http://chsmedia.org/media/hb/01/HB22694a.jpg
View A: Model with one high building and one low building (from negative)
View B: http://chsmedia.org/media/hb/01/HB22694b.jpg
View B: Similar to A, but with 2 high buildings at right-angle to each other (from negative)
View C: http://chsmedia.org/media/hb/01/HB22694c.jpg
View C: Similar to B but with 2 high buildings aligned (from negative)
View D: http://chsmedia.org/media/hb/01/HB22694d.jpg
View D: Similar to B with low-rise building very closed to a high-rise (from negative)
View E: http://chsmedia.org/media/hb/01/HB22694e.jpg
View E: Similar to B, but with three high-rise buildings surrounding plaza (from negative)
View F: http://chsmedia.org/media/hb/01/HB22694f.jpg
View F: Aerial view of A model (from negative)
View G: http://chsmedia.org/media/hb/01/HB22694g.jpg
View G: Aerial view of B model (from negative)
View H: http://chsmedia.org/media/hb/01/HB22694h.jpg
View H: Similar to G with slightly different position for low-rise building (from negative)
View I: http://chsmedia.org/media/hb/01/HB22694i.jpg
View I: Aerial view of C model (from negative)
View J: http://chsmedia.org/media/hb/01/HB22694j.jpg
View J: Aerial view of E model with three high-rise buildings (from negative)
View K: http://chsmedia.org/media/hb/01/HB22694k.jpg
View K: Model with one high building and one low building, viewed from the side of the low-rise building (from negative)
View L: http://chsmedia.org/media/hb/01/HB22694L.jpg
View L: Side view of model B with 2 high buildings at right-angle to each other and a low-rise building (from negative)
View M: http://chsmedia.org/media/hb/01/HB22694m.jpg
View M: Similar to L
View N: http://chsmedia.org/media/hb/01/HB22694n.jpg
View N: Similar to L with different shadows (from negative)
View O: http://chsmedia.org/media/hb/01/HB22694o.jpg
View O: Similar to model E with three high-rise buildings surrounding low-rise building, viewed from side of low-rise building (from negative)
View P: http://chsmedia.org/media/hb/01/HB22694p.jpg
View P: Similar to K (from negative)
ID#: HB-22694
Creator: Hedrich-Blessing (Firm), photographer.
Title: Models of possible configuration of buildings for Chicago Federal Center, 1959 Sept. 16.
Originals:
16 negatives : b&w ; 8 x 10 in.
14 photographic prints : b&w ; 8 x 10
in.
1 transparency : b&w, slide ; 35 mm.
Summary: Views from high angles of exterior of models containing
possible configurations of a low-rise post office building, plaza, and
surrounding high-rise office buildings for the complex known as the Chicago
Federal Center. Buildings are not detailed.
Forms
part of the Hedrich-Blessing photograph collection, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
series.
Details: Views: A: Model with one high building
and one low building (from negative); B: Similar to A, but with 2 high
buildings at right-angle to each other (from negative); C: Similar to B but with 2 high buildings
aligned (from negative); D: Similar to B with low-rise building very closed to
a high-rise (from negative); E: Similar to B, but with three high-rise
buildings surrounding plaza (from negative); F: Aerial view of A model (from
negative); G: Aerial view of B model (from negative); H: Similar to G with
slightly different position for low-rise building (from negative); I: Aerial
view of C model (from negative).
J: Aerial view of E model with three
high-rise buildings (from negative); K: Model with one high building and one
low building, viewed from the side of the low-rise building (from negative); L:
Side view of model B with 2 high buildings at right-angle to each other and a
low-rise building (from negative); M: Similar to L; N: Similar to L with
different shadows (from negative); O: Similar to model E with three high-rise
buildings surrounding low-rise building, viewed from side of low-rise building
(from negative); P: Similar to K (from negative).
Slide is unmounted.
Subjects:
Dirksen Federal Building (Chicago, Ill.)
219 South Dearborn Street (Chicago, Ill.)
Kluczynski Federal Building (Chicago, Ill.)
230 South Dearborn Street (Chicago, Ill.)
Loop Post Office (Chicago, Ill.)
211 South Clark Street (Chicago, Ill.)
Chicago Federal Center (Chicago, Ill.)
Architectural models—Illinois—Chicago—1950-1959.
Office
buildings—Illinois—Chicago—1950-1959.
Courthouses—Illinois—Chicago—1950-1959.
Chicago
(Ill.)—Buildings, structures, etc.—1950-1959.
Form/genre:
Film negatives.
Gelatin silver prints.
Slides.
Added entries:
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969, architect.
Henry, Hubert, photographer.
Call# for originals:
HB-22694 PPL
HB-22694 PPN
