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| Title | Chicago River and Sun-Times Building |
| Creator | Naess & Murphy (Chicago, Ill.)
Romanoff, Maya
Office of Mies van der Rohe
Graham, Anderson, Probst, White
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| Description | View looking west along the Chicago River from Columbus Avenue, with boat moorings along the south bank of the river. The Michigan Avenue bridge is in the center of the image, and behind it is the former Chicago Sun Times Building draped with twenty-eight multicolored fabric ribbons, an installation work by Maya Romanoff entitled Bess' Sunrise. The IBM Building (330 North Wabash) is visible behind it, and the Wrigley Building is on the right of the image. |
| Notes | Photograph credit: Brubaker, C. William, 1988 |
| Date | 1920-1924 (Wrigley Building); 1955-1958 (Sun-Times Building); 1969-1971 (IBM Building); 1988 (Bess' Sunrise) |
| Geographic coverage | Near North Side (Chicago, Ill.)
Loop (Chicago, Ill.)
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| Community Area Number | 8; 32 |
| Subject | riverfronts
high-rise buildings
commercial buildings
office buildings
printing plants
public art
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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 | bru005_13_gF |
