Title: Mercer Sullivan Collection, ca. 1960-1969
Storage: Lot Folder File (1 folder), Color Photoprints (2 folders, CP0008, CP0009), Negatives (1 folder, N0010), Color Negatives (1 folder, CN0003), Transparencies (1 folder, T0006)
Accession Number: G1985.0474
Description of the Collection:
Summary: Panoramic and architectural views of Chicago made by Sullivan. Subjects include a few images each of Michigan Avenue, construction of the Hancock Tower, the Robie House designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, the Lincoln Park area, the Chicago skyline from Lake Michigan, demolition of the 1905 Federal Building, Chicago Housing Authority's Richard M. Hilliard Center complex, landfill at Northwestern University, O'Hare International Airport, Mies van der Rohe's 1961 Federal Office Building, and unidentified suburban residences after a snowfall.
Container List
Lot Folder
Michigan Ave. looking North from river, March, 1961
Wrigley Building toward Northwest from river, March, 1961
Sun-Times building, March, 1961
Along the Chicago River
Wacker and LaSalle Drives [?], March, 1961
Chicago Housing Authority, Hilliard Housing Complex, 1965-66
O'Hare International Airport; United Airlines jet, Sept, 1961
North Michigan Avenue at night during Christmas, 1960s
Signs for: Old Cathay Cantonese Restaurant, Maurice Seymour Photography, and Wimpy burgers
Negatives
Printed:
Michigan Ave. looking North from river, March, 1961
Sin-Times building, March, 1961
Along the Chicago River
Wacker and LaSalle Drives [?], March, 1961
Chicago Housing Authority, Hilliard Housing Complex, 1965-66
O’Hare International Airport; United Airlines jet, Sept, 1961
North Michigan Avenue at night during Christmas, 1960s
Signs for: Old Cathay Cantonese Restaurant, Maurice Seymour Photography, and Wimpy burgers
Not printed:Wrigley building toward Northwest from river, March, 1961
Along the Chicago River and north, Sept, 1961
Marina Towers construction, Nov, 1963
Chicago Housing Authority, Hilliard Housing Complex, some not printed
Chicago apartment houses, northside: Hawthorne House, Harbor House, and an unidentified high-rise, July 13, 1966
Oak and Rush, wrecking of unidentified building, July, 1966
Loop area (downtown) at night, 1960s
Color Photoprints
8 Lincoln Park, winter, Dec, 1963
Belmont Harbor and surrounding building, Sept, 1963
U.S. Gypsum Building and Annex, Wacker Drive, Aug, 1963
Chicago River vicinity Fall, 1964
Skyline from breakwater July 10, 1963
Skyline from lake, Aug, 1964
Northwestern University, Evanston Ill, landfill at lakeside construction, Sept 1964
9 Views from Lincoln Park area
City from top of 260 E. Chestnut May, 1967
University of Chicago, Robie House designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, Sept 2, 1967
Chicago Police and cars near Grant Park, May, 1967
Old Town Art Fair, June, 1967
Watertower, Palmolive Building, and John Hancock Center under construction, June 2, 1967
Lincoln Park, Horticultural Gardens and fountains, Sept 10, 1966
Lincoln Park, Horticultural Gardens, July, 1965
Burton Place Art Fair, June 11, 1967
Art Institute of Chicago, ext: Lorado Taft's fountain, Sept, 1966
Arlington Heights snowstorm, Jan, 1965
Snowstorm [Arlington Heights?], Jan, 1965
Skyline from Grant Park, June 11, 1965
Skyline from ?, July, 1965
Chicago Housing Authority, Hilliard Housing Complex, ext. 1965-66
Old and New Federal Buildings, Oct 10, 1965
Color Negatives
3 same list as color photoprints, above
Not printed:Holiday Inn and Lake Shore Drive from Oak Street beach, May, 1967
Watertower and Dental building, May, 1967
St. Joseph Hospital and Belmont Harbor, July, 1966
Lincoln Park Zoo: Farm in the Zoo, Jan 16, 1965
Color Transparencies
6 Sun-Times building and Wrigley building from Dearborn and Wacker, Nov 4, 1961
Oak St. beach, 1961
Lincoln Park, painters and flowers, 1961
Skyline from Grant Park, June, 1962
Belmont Harbor, 1963
Marina Towers under construction, Nov, 1963
South on Kennedy Expressway at Grand Avenue, 1963
North Wells St: Paul Bunyon and Purple Cow Restaurants, Oct 18, 1965
Sculpture at Congress Plaza and South Michigan Avenue, Sept 9, 1966
Art Institute of Chicago, Sept 19, 1966
Art Institute of Chicago, Sept 19, 1966
Lincoln Park Conservatory and Gardens, Sept 19, 1966
6 Lincoln Park, Horticultural Gardens, fountains, Sept/Oct, 1966
City from top of 260 E. Chestnut, May, 1967
Holiday Inn from Ohio St. and beach, May, 1967
Conrad Hilton Hotel, unidentified building, May, 1967
Chicago police cars near South Grant Park, May, 1967
Wrigley Building, Sheraton-Chicago Hotel, 1968
Sun-Times Building, 1968
Wrigley building from Wacker Drive
St. Joseph Hospital area (N. Sheridan Road near Belmont)
Watertower Place at night
Navy Pier and ships
Shriner Parade at Michigan Ave just south of Adams