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Steel Mill, Inland Steel Co., East Chicago, Indiana by David Plowden — VisualArtsDB

Steel Mill, Inland Steel Co., East Chicago, Indiana

Steel Mill, Inland Steel Co., East Chicago, Indiana

1979

Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: Image: 31.6 × 26.7 cm (12 1/2 × 10 9/16 in.); Paper: 35.2 × 27.8 cm (13 7/8 × 11 in.)
Genre: Gelatin silver (developing-out-paper) pr
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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