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William Peirce Anderson
This image is a carte de visite (visiting card) sized small albumen print photograph, taken in Paris while future Chicago architect Peirce Anderson was studying there, in the 1890s. William Peirce Anderson, 1870-1924, was known as Peirce or as Andy…
An interurban roadway in 1950. Parallel teaming, trolley and pleasure ways.
Commercial Club of Chicago. Inter-urban Roadways: About Chicago. Chicago: Commercial Club of Chicago, Inter-urban Roadways Committee, 1908. (A rendering of a divided highway with two light rail tracks between the roadways appears facing p. 30: "An…
Jardin des Tuileries and Place de la Concorde (Paris, France)
Photo view of Paris's Tuileries gardens and Place de la Concorde, east of the Louvre, Paris, ca. 1890s. In the distance can be seen the 1889 Eiffel Tower.
This is a Swiss-process "Photochrom" image, colorized from black and white, for which the…
This is a Swiss-process "Photochrom" image, colorized from black and white, for which the…
Aerial drawing print of Paris prior to 1871
This albumen print photograph is part of series, "Le Nouveau Paris," by photographer "J. D." This view looking east from above the Arc de Triomphe prior to the May 23, 1871 destruction by fire of the Tuileries Palace shows Baron Haussmann's new…
Letter from Maybeck explaining the details of Bennett's scholarship
A letter from Bernard Maybeck to Edward Bennett regarding the details of a scholarship Mrs. Hearst awarded Bennett.
Letter from Charles Moore to Edward Bennett regarding the correction proofs of Chapters, I, IV, and VI for the Plan of Chicago
At the outset of the year in which the Plan is to be presented, Moore is in Detroit and writing to Bennett, who has been ill. Moore reports a letter from one of the committee members, Charles H. Thorne (Thornes were Montgomery Ward relations and…
Letter from Charles Moore to Edward Bennett regarding proofs of Chapters I-V for the Plan of Chicago
Moore details status of chapter revisions of Plan of Chicago. He also updates Bennett on events in a meeting with the Committee while making revisions.
Quayside intersection, with pedestrian and freight wagon traffic, river's edge
One of a series of Edward H. Bennett's 1913-1915 study photos of "before" images of the banks of the Chicago River north and west of the central business district prior to design of Wacker Drive.
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 were models for Grant Park planner Edward H. Bennett and associated French designers. They…
This fountain and its basin were models for Grant Park planner Edward H. Bennett and associated French designers. They…
Latona Fountain, Versailles
Fountain of Latone in the garden of Versailles, Paris.