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Edward Bennett's watercolor sketch as a guide for frontispiece for 1909 Plan of Chicago
A bird's-eye view watercolor sketch of Chicago and environs by Edward H. Bennett. This is one of two such sketches found on a few pages of a…
Daniel Burnham writing in 1909 Plan of Chicago studio
The prominence of this image on scrapbook pages in Bennett's papers, retained by him in 1953, along with Burnham seen writing in the setting in the…
PARC de VERSAILLES, Le Bassin de Latone
The basin and fountain of Latona are seen here from the west looking east toward the Orangerie, Palace of Versailles.
This fountain and its basin…
Grant Park with peristyle
The 1917 Grant Park Peristyle appears in this photo looking north from the roof of the Railway Exchange Building during a 1918 parade on Michigan…
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Ragdale Scrapbook
The Ragdale Scrapbook is a thick three ring binder holding archival family and Ragdale photographs. The photos are labeled in...
