View of the north and west façades of the Government Building from the Wooded Island with the Fire and Guardhouse on the right and the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building in the background, 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exhibition, Chicago, Illinois

People:

Charles Dudley Arnold (photographer)
Windrim (architect)
Daniel Hudson Burnham (architect)
George B. Post (architect)
Henry Codman (landscape architect)
Frederick Law Olmsted (landscape architect)
W.J. Edbrooke (architect)
John Wellborn Root (architect)

Title:

Date:

1892

Description:

- This photograph shows a bridge connecting the Government Building to the Fisheries Building on the left across the Lagoon.

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 18.0 x 20.8 cm

Reference number:

PH1981:0490

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

inscribed - by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink, on a double-sided label inserted within the mly-board holding photograph PH1981:0489: with the name, dimensions and cost of the Government Building and the name of the architect imprinted and dated - in typescript and white ink ? in the image, l.r.: "COPYRIGHT 1892 BY C.D.ARNOLD. [sic]"

Location:

Chicago; Illinois; United States;

Subject:

architecture
temporary architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

entrances
figures (representations)
statues
dome
bridge (built work)
exhibition buildings
world's fair
guardhouse
artificial lagoon
fire station

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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