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Hutchinson Hall, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.. – Antique Wall Art

Hutchinson Hall, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.., [between 1910 and 1920] — historic photograph
Hutchinson Hall, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.., [between 1910 and 1920]. 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 Hutchinson Hall, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.., a historic photograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Hutchinson Hall, with Mitchell Tower rising beside it, anchors the Gothic-style Main Quadrangle of the University of Chicago, the campus that Henry Ives Cobb and other architects laid out in the early 1890s after the university was refounded on the South Side. The Detroit Publishing Company, a commercial firm that sold views of American towns, landmarks and scenery, made this large-format glass negative in the years before 1920, when the campus was becoming a model for collegiate architecture in the Midwest. The building's stone walls and pointed arches reflect the era's admiration for English university design, and the tower's bells gave the campus one of its best-known landmarks.

Created / published[between 1910 and 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesIncludes Mitchell Tower. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 072293. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsUniversities & colleges. Educational facilities.United States--Illinois--Chicago.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 782 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-73373

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