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Steel Mills, East Chicago, Indiana by David Plowden — VisualArtsDB

Steel Mills, East Chicago, Indiana

Steel Mills, East Chicago, Indiana

1979

Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: Image: 28.3 × 26.8 cm (11 3/16 × 10 9/16 in.); Paper: 34.9 × 27.8 cm (13 3/4 × 11 in.)
Genre: Gelatin silver (developing-out-paper) pr
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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