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Grant Park, Chicago, north of Monroe Street
The new Grant Park (Chicago), designed by Edward H. Bennett, is shown here looking from Monroe Street at the edge of the Illinois Central Railroad tracks (right, not shown) north to the 1917 Peristyle designed by Bennett. This has been replaced in…
Grant Park, aerial view, including the Illinois Central Railroad tracks
This aerial view of Grant Park was possibly photographed from the Peoples' Gas Company building (completed in 1911) with Monroe Street going to Lake Michigan at the top. An alternative vantage point is from the top of the Railway Exchange Building,…
Grant Park, aerial view, Illinois Central Railroad Tracks (no.1)
This view taken by Bennett from the rooftop of the Railway Exchange Building, Michigan Avenue, shows the future Grant Park prior to its development and to the infill land to the south where the Field Museum later would stand, at this time still in…
Grant Park, aerial view, Illinois Central Railroad Tracks (no. 2)
This is one of two aerial views, which focuses on the land east-south-east of the photographer Edward Bennett's vantage point on the Railway Exchange Building, Michigan Avenue. The occasion is a military encampment, 1909-1912, with many small tents…
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 Avenue, perhaps for the November 11, 1918 Armistice. The park west of the Illinois Central Railroad…
Freight cars in yard south of Grand Central Station, Chicago
Pictured are trains of freight cars on tracks in a below-grade freight yard south of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad's Grand Central Station, Harrison Street, Chicago. Visible is the Grand Central Station 242 ft., flat-topped tower standing center…
First studies for San Francisco Exposition 1915
"First studies for S.F. Exposition 1915. before Even site was selected Chicago. 1910 EHB." Sketch is fastened in notebook. Comments in pencil by Edward H. Bennett.
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 scrapbook, retained by Bennett in 1953 when he donated much of his material to the Art Institute of Chicago.…
Edward Bennett's second watercolor sketch 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 scrapbook, retained by Bennett in 1953 when he donated much of his material to the Art Institute. Also…
This is one of two such sketches found on a few pages of a scrapbook, retained by Bennett in 1953 when he donated much of his material to the Art Institute. Also…