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Winged Man sculpture by Richard Hunt 1987, Chicago

The structure and configuration of the elevated train system that gave downtown Chicago its nickname, “The Loop,” provided Louise Nevelson with the inspiration for her sculpture Dawn Shadows. Nevelson is best known for her large wooden relief…

Fountain of Time, or simply Time, is a sculpture by Lorado Taft, measuring 126 feet 10 inches (38.66 m) in length, situated at the western edge of the Midway Plaisance within Washington Park in Chicago, Illinois, in the United States.

A group of students practicing weaving on tabletop and lap looms.

Broadway Street, 9 foot sewer in Rokeby Street [now Fremont Street], part of Broadway Sewer System. Driving steel sheeting, above ground, August 24, 1927

Berteau Avenue, view inside 14 1/2 x 10 1/2 foot concrete sewer near outfall showing method of lagging by means of 6 inch ship channel ribs, October 23, 1930

Natchez Avenue Sewer System, junction chamber at 51st Street and Natchez Avenue, September 20, 1929

Leamington Avenue Sewer System, 1-A at alley east of Cicero Avenue in 49th Street, above ground, March 14, 1958

7 1/2 foot sewer tunnel under 111th Street at heading 1450 west of Eberhart Avenue. Kelly, Foscoe, and Raymond pictured in Pullman Tunnel, April 1938

Work Projects Administration poster advertising free craft workshops at the Hull House, including painting, pottery, sculpture, weaving, poster art, and children's classes. Poster shows a budding plant, a sculpture of a bird, and an artist's palette.