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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…
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…
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…
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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Edward H. Bennett Collection

A collection of materials relating to architect and planner Edward H. Bennett (1874-1954).
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