Nathaniel Owings – Historic Print
![Nathaniel Owings, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/0d/0dbd3109060c-L.webp)
(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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Nathaniel Owings. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Nathaniel Owings
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Nathaniel Owings, the architect, is shown in this studio portrait made by Stone and Steccati, a San Francisco photography firm, and the caption card's subject tracings mark it as architecture-related. The card records no date, so the sitting cannot be placed with certainty. Owings is best known as a co-founder of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the firm whose postwar office towers, such as Lever House in New York, helped shape American corporate design. The portrait offers a glimpse of one of the profession's most influential figures at a time when his firm was rising to prominence.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photoprint by Stone and Steccati, San Francisco, Calif. No. 17836 #41. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: B.I.; Geogr.; Arch. Unprocessed in PR 13(H) 1979:318. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,067 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-155909 |
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