Photograph of a photomontage showing a bird's-eye view of the Commonwealth Promenade Apartments, Chicago, Illinois

People:

Hedrich-Blessing (Firm) (photographic studio)
Friedman, Alschuler, Sincere and Ernest A. Grunsfeld (architectural firm)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (architect)
Herbert S. Greenwald (client)

Title:

Photograph of a photomontage showing a bird's-eye view of the Commonwealth Promenade Apartments, Chicago, Illinois

Date:

negative exposed 1956

Description:

- Among the inscriptions on the verso of this copy print is the negative number 19309 C.

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

composition: 14,9 x 22,4 cm sheet: 20,8 x 25,3 cm

Reference number:

DR1994:0014:011

Point of View:

bird's-eye view
exterior view

Inscription:

inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the print, verso, c.l. to c.r.: "900 & 910 COMMONWELTE / APT. BLDGS / ORIGINAL 4 BLDGS" [sideways] stamped - by an unknown hand, in blue ink, on the print, verso, l.l.: "HEDRICH-BLESSING / 450 EAST OHIO STREET CHICAGO / NEG. No. 19309 C"

Subject:

architecture

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Gift of Edward Austin Duckett

Photograph © Chicago History Museum

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