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| Title | View toward Near North Side from railroad yard |
| Creator | Alschuler, Alfred S. (Alfred Samuel), 1876-1940 (Alfred Samuel), 1876-1940
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
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| Description | View from a railroad yard looking toward the Near North Side. On the right, behind the passenger train, is the John Sexton Building located at Illinois and Orleans Streets, then a warehouse but now condominiums. Behind that is the John Hancock Center. The Wallace Press Building is partially visible on the extreme left of the image. |
| Notes | Photograph credit: Brubaker, C. William, 1970 |
| Date | 1917 (John Sexton Building); 1969 (John Hancock Center) |
| Geographic coverage | Near North Side (Chicago, Ill.)
River North (Chicago, Ill.)
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| Community Area Number | 8 |
| Subject | high-rise buildings
mid-rise buildings
office buildings
commercial buildings
warehouses
railroad yards
bridges
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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_09_qF |
