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[Kent Chemical Laboratory, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.] – Antique Wall Art

[Kent Chemical Laboratory, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.], [between 1900 and 1910] — historic photograph
[Kent Chemical Laboratory, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.], [between 1900 and 1910]. 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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[Kent Chemical Laboratory, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.]

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The Kent Chemical Laboratory was one of the early science buildings on the University of Chicago campus, which opened in 1892 after the university's founding in 1890. This view is preserved as an 8 by 10 inch glass dry plate negative from the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm known for documenting American towns, landmarks and institutions in the decade or so around 1900. Campus architecture of this period often borrowed Gothic and Romanesque styles, and the image gives a sense of how the young university presented its scientific work to the public.

Created / published[between 1900 and 1910]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.
NotesTitle from jacket. Behm" on negative. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 034715. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SubjectsUniversities & colleges. Educational facilities. Laboratories.United States--Illinois--Chicago.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 791 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-67527

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