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Chicago, Illinois by David Plowden — VisualArtsDB

Chicago, Illinois

Chicago, Illinois

1981

Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: Image: 27.8 × 26.7 cm (11 × 10 9/16 in.); Paper: 35.3 × 27.9 cm (13 15/16 × 11 in.)
Genre: gelatin silver (developing-out-paper) pr
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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photographic techniquesphotographyphotographic processesblack-and-white photographyChicagogelatin silver (developing-out-paper) prphotographphotographic processphotographic paper

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David Plowden, 1974

Sydney and Louisburg Railway, North Sydney Engine Terminal, Nova Scotia

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David Plowden, 1959

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IS 1482, Inland Steel Company, Charging Open Hearth Furnace Number 2 with “Pig Iron”, East Chicago, Indiana

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Textile Mills, Lawrence, Massachusetts

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David Plowden, 1974

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Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta, Georgia

David Plowden, 1966

R. H. Birkhead, Stationmaster

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