• Unknown (photographer)

Album of architectural ornaments

1927-1931

This volume contains 285 photographs on 44 leaves, of designs commissioned by Graham Anderson Probst & White for the decoration of the buildings below. They date from 1927 to 1931, and most bear the approval marks of Mr. Alfred Shaw. Firms identified on the photographs include the Northwestern Terra Cotta Co., Flour City Ornamental Iron Co, and Havlick stone Co. The designs, executed in plaster, were for doorways, panelling, cornices, plaques, ceilings, etc., for:
The Morton Building, Chicago
The Pittsfield Building, Chicago
The Koppers Building
20 Wacker Drive Building (Civic Opera House)
Merchandise Mart
Northwestern National Bank, Minneapolis, Minn.
Marshall Field Store, Oak Park, Illinois.
Pennsylvania railroad Office Building, Philadelphia, Pa.
Higbee Department Store (location?)
and at least one unindentified building.
J. Gregg
3/22/70"
Note by J. Gregg, dated 3/22/70, typewritten on white paper glued on first page of album

Gelatin silver prints

album: 31,2 x 26,3 x 5 cm comps. (max.): 24,9 x 19,5 cm comps. (min.): 2,3 x 2,5 cm

PH1980:0657:001-288

- Album with red cloth covers and spine and title imprinted in gold lettering on spine - photographs are glued on secondary support; two are attached with tape on one side of photo to the album page; one is not attached

inscribed, signed, dated and numbered

Philadelphia Pennsylvania États-Unis

• architecture
• ornement

• people
• figures (representations)
• doorways
• bas-reliefs
• sculptures
• railings
• vase
• vestibule
• columns (architectural elements)
• cornices
• entablatures
• pediments
• paneling
• pedestals
• boats
• fluting
• ceilings
• grille
• mantels
• musical instruments
• ceiling ornaments
• panels (ornament areas)
• friezes (entablature components)
• console
• latticework
• scrolls (motifs)
• motifs
• capital (column component)
• leaf (plant material) motifs
• shield (motif)
• brackets
• numerals
• foliation (pattern)
• decorations
• medallions (ornament areas)
• letters (signs)
• measuring devices
• geometric patterns
• plasterwork
• horses
• plaques (flat objects)
• fluted columns