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Wrigley Building, Chicago, Ill. – Vintage Photo Print

Wrigley Building, Chicago, Ill. — historic photograph
Wrigley Building, Chicago, Ill.. 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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This historic photograph of Wrigley Building, Chicago, Ill. brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Wrigley Building, Chicago, Ill.

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The Wrigley Building's clock tower sets this view apart from other Chicago skyline pictures, and its design draws on the Giralda, the bell tower of the cathedral in Seville, Spain. Completed in 1924 for chewing gum magnate William Wrigley Jr., the white terra-cotta complex stands on the north bank of the Chicago River along Michigan Avenue. The photograph was made by Underwood & Underwood, a firm known for stereographs and views of American places, though the caption card does not record its date. Its tracings point to tower clocks as a subject, so the picture rewards a close look at the tower's upper stories and ornament.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SubjectsPhoto by Underwood & Underwood, Chicago. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Arch. Colls.; Photog. I.; Tower-clocks; Ill.--C-; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,200 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-136811

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