Posts tagged design
Poster for Riverview Amusement Park, c.1930s, Chicago.
Siegel Cooper & Co. spring/summer catalog, 1914, Chicago.
State and Washington, Reliance Building retail, 1977, Chicago. John Kimmich Javier
Adams and Wabash, 1933, Chicago.
Free wash or grease at the garage…(what’s a grease?)
Promotional collateral featuring a conceptual design called, television, 1934, Chciago.
Take the Canadian Pacific to the Century of Progress World’s Fair, 1933, Chicago.
Looking south on Dearborn from Van Buren, 1892, Chicago.
The Manhattan (431 S Dearborn) is the tall building on the left; when it was completed, it was the tallest building in the world. It still stands and is cited as the world’s oldest surviving “skyscraper.”
Love the signage.
Nice use of the city’s municipal device (the Y representing the 3 branches of the river) on a poster promoting one of Mayor Byrne’s many failed attempts to revitalize the Loop in the early 1980s.
Cubs Official Program, 1953, Chicago.
via Cubs by the Numbers
Chicago Has Everything (stylized art deco skyline), 1933, Chicago.
Russell’s Silver Bar, corner of Van Buren and State, 1933, Chicago.
Posters commemorating the decennial of long distance flight between Rome and Chicago, 1933.
Night Club Beverages label, c.1930’s, Chicago.
Members of the New Bauhaus School of Design, looking down the stairwell at their offices, which were first set in a former home of Marshall Field, 1938, Chicago
A wall paper border sampler from Marshall Field’s, 1908, Chicago.
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