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Dome and Grand Stairway
Chicago: its history and its builders, a century of marvelous growth

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Title
Dome and Grand Stairway
Description
Caption: "Dome and grand stairway of Art Institute, completed in 1912. Courtesy of Art Institute of Chicago". From text: "There are now in 1911, fifty public exhibition galleries, of which twenty-seven are skylighted, and plans are being made to extend the building eastward by bridging the Illinois Central railroad tracks with skylighted galleries and building new museum halls upon the land reclaimed from the lake. Work has been begun on the building of the great central staircase, which will add immensely to the dignity and beauty of the main rotunda. This staircase will for the immediate future be surmounted by a plain, lofty skylighted roof, which will later be replaced by a dome, and the whole finished with impressive architectural work."
Date
1912  
Type
Photograph  
File Name
chicagoitshistor02curr_0325.jp2
Source Page
http://www.archive.org/stream/chicagoitshistor02curr#page/266/mode/2up
Link to the Full-Text
http://hdl.handle.net/10111/UIUCOCA:Serial/chicagoitshistor
Subject
Galleries & museums  
Coverage-Spatial
The Loop (Chicago, Ill.)  
Coverage-Temporal
1910-1919  
Publisher
  • University of Illinois at Chicago  
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  
Rights
No Copyright - United States
Rights Description
Images in this collection were digitized through the University of Illinois Library's participation in the Open Content Alliance and may be used freely. Attribution to the University of Illinois is appreciated. High-resolution images can be downloaded from the Internet Archive at www.archive.org. For further information, contact dcc@library.uiuc.edu.
Book Title
Chicago: its history and its builders, a century of marvelous growth  
Author of the Book
Currey, J. Seymour (Josiah Seymour), b. 1844  
Collection Title
Picture Chicago
Collection
Picture Chicago
TitleDome and Grand Stairway
DescriptionCaption: "Dome and grand stairway of Art Institute, completed in 1912. Courtesy of Art Institute of Chicago". From text: "There are now in 1911, fifty public exhibition galleries, of which twenty-seven are skylighted, and plans are being made to extend the building eastward by bridging the Illinois Central railroad tracks with skylighted galleries and building new museum halls upon the land reclaimed from the lake. Work has been begun on the building of the great central staircase, which will add immensely to the dignity and beauty of the main rotunda. This staircase will for the immediate future be surmounted by a plain, lofty skylighted roof, which will later be replaced by a dome, and the whole finished with impressive architectural work."
Date1912  
TypePhotograph  
File Namechicagoitshistor02curr_0325.jp2
Source Pagehttp://www.archive.org/stream/chicagoitshistor02curr#page/266/mode/2up
Link to the Full-Texthttp://hdl.handle.net/10111/UIUCOCA:Serial/chicagoitshistor
SubjectGalleries & museums  
Coverage-SpatialThe Loop (Chicago, Ill.)  
Coverage-Temporal1910-1919  
Publisher
  • University of Illinois at Chicago  
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  
RightsNo Copyright - United States
Rights DescriptionImages in this collection were digitized through the University of Illinois Library's participation in the Open Content Alliance and may be used freely. Attribution to the University of Illinois is appreciated. High-resolution images can be downloaded from the Internet Archive at www.archive.org. For further information, contact dcc@library.uiuc.edu.
Book TitleChicago: its history and its builders, a century of marvelous growth  
Author of the BookCurrey, J. Seymour (Josiah Seymour), b. 1844  
Collection TitlePicture Chicago
CollectionPicture Chicago

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