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Grain Elevators, Chicago by David Plowden — VisualArtsDB

Grain Elevators, Chicago

Grain Elevators, Chicago

1979

Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: Image: 22.2 × 34 cm (8 3/4 × 13 7/16 in.); Paper: 27.8 × 35.3 cm (11 × 13 15/16 in.)
Genre: gelatin silver (developing-out-paper) pr
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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