[Chicago Tribune Tower building, Chicago, Ill.] – Vintage Photo Print
![[Chicago Tribune Tower building, Chicago, Ill.] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/26/262f1bda8719-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.)
Description
This rare historic print captures [Chicago Tribune Tower building, Chicago, Ill.] in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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[Chicago Tribune Tower building, Chicago, Ill.]
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Among the entries to the 1922 Chicago Tribune competition, this reproduction preserves an architectural drawing by Walter Gropius, the German architect who later led the Bauhaus. Where the winning design by John Mead Howells and Raymond Hood took the form of a Gothic-style skyscraper, Gropius proposed a spare, unornamented building that anticipated the modernist style he would later champion. The drawing was published in the competition's illustrated record, which helped make the rejected entries nearly as widely discussed as the winner.
| Medium | 1 print. |
|---|---|
| Notes | 1922 |
| Subjects | of architectural drawing by Gropius. Illus. in: Tribune Tower Competition, 1922, p. 197. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Arch. Colls.; BI--Works; Arch.--Drawings; Ill.--Chicago--Bldgs.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 799 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-136860 |
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