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Fine Arts Building, Chicago, Ill. – Antique Photo Print

Fine Arts Building, Chicago, Ill., [ca. 1900] — historic photograph
Fine Arts Building, Chicago, Ill., [ca. 1900]. 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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Fine Arts Building, Chicago, Ill.

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The Fine Arts Building stood at 410 South Michigan Avenue in Chicago, and this glass negative records it as a stop on the city's cultural map around 1900. The building was completed in 1898 for the Studebaker Brothers' carriage company's showroom and was later remodeled into a home for artists, musicians and theater people, housing studios and the Studio Building's Auditorium theater-era crowd nearby. Made by the Detroit Publishing Company, whose photographers traveled widely to document American cities for color and black-and-white views, the negative shows the building's ornate terra-cotta facade and its place along Michigan Avenue's busy street life.

Created / published[ca. 1900]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesDate based on Detroit, Catalogue J Supplement (1901-1906). 23" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 013259. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsCultural facilities.United States--Illinois--Chicago.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan829 × 646 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-58161

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