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- Collection: Edward H. Bennett Collection
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Chicago skyline view, 1906-1909, showing smoke and smog in heating season
This is one of the planning photographs among Edward H. Bennett's groups of images from the era of the 1906-09 Plan and its implementation into the 1920s.
The view shows both the irregular character of the central business district's masonry…
The view shows both the irregular character of the central business district's masonry…
Chicago Loop interior rooftops, 1909 - 1920
This black and white photo by Edward H. Bennett awaits closer study and possibly comparison to outline drawings of rooftops in Frank A. Randall's History of Chicago Buildings (Urbana: U. of Ill. Press, 1949). It shows central city rooftops shrouded…
Looking south from 1/2 block north of Randolph Street
Edward H. Bennett labeled this photograph from 1913-1915 on the verso of the photographic print. The photograph is one of a series by planner Bennett in preparation for the design of Wacker Drive and redevelopment of the banks of the Chicago River…
Michigan Avenue -- looking south from the river
Edward Bennett labeled the title of this photograph on the verso of the photographic print. This view from 1913-1915 looks toward the future site of Grant Park, and it shows the narrowness of Michigan Avenue prior to the development of the bridge and…
Michigan Avenue parade, north of Jackson Street and the Art Institute of Chicago (partial double exposure)
This partially-double-exposed photo by Edward Bennett from the roof of the Railway Exchange Building shows the Pullman Building (two doors north), the Peoples Gas Company Building (across Adams Street north), and the Art Institute of Chicago (across…
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.…
San Francisco Fair 1915
Study sketch for the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition
Sketch of column from Chartres Cathedral, north portal (2)
A detailed sketch completed by Bennett while studying at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
Letter from Daniel Burnham urging Edward Bennett to return to Chicago
This letter was written by Daniel Burnham to Edward Bennett around the end of the planning for San Francisco. Burnham had just accepted the commission on the Plan of Chicago.
Sketch of an apartment in New York (not built)
Daniel H. Burnham informal sketches for an Fifth Avenue apartment (presumably not built), New York. A large residence in the style of a Parisian "hotel" or aristocratic residence.
This leaf of letterhead stationery with pencil sketches of plans…
This leaf of letterhead stationery with pencil sketches of plans…