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Grant Park, showing Auditorium [Building] and [Congress Hotel and] Annex, Chicago, Ill. – Historic Photo Reproduction

Grant Park, showing Auditorium [Building] and [Congress Hotel and] Annex, Chicago, Ill., c1907. — historic photograph
Grant Park, showing Auditorium [Building] and [Congress Hotel and] Annex, Chicago, Ill., c1907.. Historic photograph from the Chicago collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Step back in time with Grant Park, showing Auditorium [Building] and [Congress Hotel and] Annex, Chicago, Ill., a historic photograph rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Grant Park, showing Auditorium [Building] and [Congress Hotel and] Annex, Chicago, Ill.

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Grant Park's lakefront view here is anchored by the Auditorium Building, the large masonry landmark designed by Adler & Sullivan and completed in 1889, with the Congress Hotel and its annex rising beside it. The park was built on land reclaimed from Lake Michigan, much of it filled with debris from the Great Fire of 1871, and by the early 1900s it had become a showcase for the city's civic and hotel architecture. This glass-plate negative comes from the Detroit Publishing Company, whose photographers recorded American towns and landmarks in the decades around 1900.

Created / publishedc1907.
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesBehm" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 070168. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsParks. Auditoriums.United States--Illinois--Chicago.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 791 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-71753

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