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| Title | Industrial buildings along North Branch of Chicago River |
| Description | View looking north along the North Branch of the Chicago River from north of West Division Street. On the left is the Chicago Rawhide Manufacturing company factory (demolished, formerly at 1301 North Elston Avenue). Beyond that, a coal yard and coal barge are visible at the riverfront. In the distance is the red brick Procter & Gamble plant (demolished, formerly located at 1232 North Avenue) with its two smokestacks. At the far right part is a Peoples Gas Light & Coke Company gas holder, part of the former Willow Street Station Manufactured Gas Plant Site (demolished, formerly located between North Kingsbury Street and the river, just west of the intersection with West Willow Street). |
| Notes | Photo credit: Brubaker, C. William, 1970 |
| Date | 1953 (Peoples Gas gas holder) |
| Geographic coverage | Near North Side (Chicago, Ill.)
West Town (Chicago, Ill.)
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| Community Area Number | 8; 24 |
| Subject | industrial districts
industrial buildings
storage facilities
gasholders
rivers
riverfronts
watercraft
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| Language | English
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| Type | Image
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| Form | architecture
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| View Description | general view |
| Physical Description | 35 mm. slide |
| Collection | C. William Brubaker Collection (University of Illinois at Chicago)
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| Repository | University of Illinois at Chicago. Library. [Visual Resources]. |
| Citation | Cite as [creator]. [title]. [file name]. [collection]. |
| Rights | The University of Illinois at Chicago College of Architecture and the Arts holds reproduction and licensing rights. For more information, please email: lib-permissions@uic.edu. |
| Downloads | Downloads of larger files for this image are available from the C. William Brubaker set in the UIC Library Flickr collections at http://www.flickr.com/photos/uicdigital/sets/72157625021131144/. |
| File Name | bru010_07_jF |
