J.W. Taylor photograph collection, ca. 1880-1910.

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J.W. Taylor photograph collection, ca. 1880-1910.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79736117

The collection contains architectural and landscape photographs taken by J.W. Taylor in Chicago. Buildings represented are or were primarily downtown office buildings and were designed by noted architects of the day, including Adler and Sullivan, Solon S. Beman, William W. Boyington, Burnham and Root, Cobb and Frost, and Holabird and Roche. Additionally, there are several images of Chicago parks and statuary.

1 box (0.5 linear feet)

Aurora University, Phillips Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8235928

Aurora University, Phillips Library

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Jenney & Mundie.

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Burnham and Root

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Daniel Burnham was born in Henderson, New York in 1846. He studied at the New Church School in Waltham, Massachusetts and received private tutoring. He worked for William Le Baron Jenney in his Chicago office for a short time. After several failed attempts in other businesses, he eventually joined the architectural firm of Carter, Drake and Wright. Burnham's future partner, John Wellborn Root was born in Lumpkin, Georgia, and raised in Atlanta. When Union troops occupied Atlanta in ...

Rookery Building (Chicago, Ill.)

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Jenney, W. L. B. (William Le Baron), 1832-1907

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Taylor, J. W., 1846-1918

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J.W. Taylor (1846-1918) was an architectural photographer in Chicago. From the description of J.W. Taylor photographs of Chicago, circa 1880s-1910s. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367933758 ...

Palmer, Charles Maldon, 1845-1928.

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Beman, S. S. (Solon Spencer), 1853-1914

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The Pioneer Press Building (now known as the Pioneer Building) was designed by architect Solon Beman of Chicago. It was erected in downtown St. Paul in 1888-1889 to house the offices and presses of the St. Paul Pioneer Press newspaper. Critic Montgomery Schuyler called the building an "uncompromising parallelopiped of brown brick [which] rears itself to the height of twelve stories" and was "eminent for the strictness with which the design conforms itself to the utilitarian conditions of the str...

Chicago Auditorium Building (Chicago, Ill.)

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MacMonnies, Frederick William, 1863-1937

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Frederick William MacMonnies (1863-1937) was a sculptor from New York, N.Y. From the description of Frederick William MacMonnies papers, 1874-1997. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 756820999 Sculptor; New York, N.Y. From the description of Frederick William MacMonnies letters and typescript, 1908-1911. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81919240 From the description of Frederick William MacMonnies letters and clippings, 1885-1937. (Unknown). WorldCat record id...

Cleveland, H. W. S. (Horace William Shaler), 1814-1900

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Horace William Shaler Cleveland was born in 1814 in New England. After spending time in New England, New Jersey and New York working in landscape architecture, Cleveland settled in Chicago in 1869, establishing a landscape architectural firm. In 1886, he moved his firm to Minneapolis. Considered a visionary landscape architect, Cleveland was responsible for the design of the Minneapolis park system. In the late 1890s, Cleveland moved to Honsdale, Illinois to live with his son Ralph. H. W. S. Cle...

Holabird & Roche (Chicago, Ill.)

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Van Osdel, John M., 1811-1891

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Warren, Clinton J., 1860-

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Haymarket Square Police Monument (Chicago, Ill.)

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Cobb and Frost.

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Adler and Sullivan

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Richardson, H. H. (Henry Hobson), 1838-1886

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Architect Henry Hobson Richardson was born and raised in Louisiana. He attended Harvard College (class of 1859) and was the second American to enroll in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Upon his return in 1866, he opened a small office in New York City in partnership with Charles Gambrill. In 1872 he received the design commission for Trinity Church in Boston and in 1874 he moved his home and office to Brookline to handle his growing practice in New England. The following years were to be the ...

Olmsted, Olmsted, and Eliot

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Baumann, Frederick

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Olmsted and Vaux (Firm)

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Monadnock Building (Chicago, Ill.)

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Boyington, William W., 1818-1898

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Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 1848-1907

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Sculptor. From the description of Papers of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, circa 1848-1907. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71071553 Sculptor and artist. From the description of Augustus Saint-Gaudens papers, 1891-1920. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981198 Sculptor, New York. From the description of Letter, 1893 April 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122553768 American sculptor. From the description of Saint-Gaudens National...