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Merchandise Mart building, Chicago, Ill. – Historic Photograph Print

Merchandise Mart building, Chicago, Ill. — historic photograph
Merchandise Mart 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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Step back in time with Merchandise Mart building, Chicago, Ill., a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Merchandise Mart building, Chicago, Ill.

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Few buildings of its era were as large as the Merchandise Mart, which rose on the north bank of the Chicago River as a wholesale trade center for the Marshall Field company. This photograph is dated April 8, 1930, when the enormous structure was nearly new and still a striking presence on the city's skyline. Built in the late 1920s, the mart was designed to bring manufacturers and buyers under one roof, and its sheer scale made it a symbol of Chicago's commercial ambitions just before the Great Depression took hold.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes1930 April 8.
SubjectsThis record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Arch. Colls.; Ill.--C-; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,247 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-136813

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