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.		K no	photo details	inscriptions	identification & refs	content
20		*16/5	'2517 / J.W. Taylor, Chicago, 151 Monr[oe St]' [cut off]	obv: 'Chicago' rev: 'Chambers of Commerce / Staircase Chicago / W.W. Buffington A [cut off]'	Chicago: Chamber of Commerce: could be Baumann & Huehl's Chamber of Commerce building, 1888-9, dem 1926 [illustrated in Condit, Rise of the Skyscraper, p 65; also Randall p 49, giving the construction date as 1890 - which cannot be correct - and the demolition as 1928].	three levels of staircase, climbing around open metal lift cages, gallery with floors in ?lino.
21		3/7	'1754'	obv: 'Ball Room Chicago' rev: 'R[..]sleys Ballroom / Chicago'	Chicago: R[..]sleys Ballroom	end of a tall room with a corner fireplace and a gallery over.
22		4/7	'7061 IWT / Union Club Chi'	obv: 'Union League Club Chicago' rev: 'Union League Club'	Chicago: Chicago, Union League Club, 110-114 Jackson St, by W L B Jenney 1887 [Randall, pp 111, 158]	dining room with table in foreground, Byzantine columns, inglenook and fireplace, bar.
23		6/7	'8025 / J W D'	obv: 'Chicago' rev: -	Chicago	end of a room, windows flanking a fireplace with a plain brick rectangular surround, & Franco-Byzantine superstructure
24		9/7	'2537 LWT.'	obv: 'Chicago' rev: 'Chicago'	Chicago	dining room with deep coved ceiling, interesting glazed tile chimneypiece and ornate wall clock
25		10/7	'155'	obv: 'Chicago' rev: 'Chicago / Mullet + Ristau[...]'	Chicago: by Silsbee, probably before 1885 [ref Payne]	hall with stair at one end, fireplace with highly elaborate Gothic arcaded superstructure
26		12/7	'2399'	obv: 'Chicago' rev: 'Chicago / by Silsbee'	Chicago: house by Silsbee. Could be Potter Palmer house, 1874, or J L Silsbee house, 1889.	end of room with bookcases, chimneybreast flanked by abacus top screens, rectangular fireplace and tiled surround, classical timber overmantel with mirrors
27		13/7	-	obv: 'Kinsleys Resaurant Chicago' rev: 'Chicago / Kinsleys Resaurant'	Chicago: Kinsley Building, 105-107 Adams St, by F L Charnley (or Charnley & Clay), 1885 [Lowe, p 188; Randall pp 110, 165]. See also no 69.	rectangular corner fireplace with sub-Talbertian surround, no chimneypiece over, papered walls
28		1/9	'Pullman. 2. arcade from N.W. / J.W. Taylor, Publisher / 146 La Salle St, Chicago'	obv: 'Pullman Chicago' rev: -	Chicago: Pullman Arcade (Administration) Building, cnr East 111th St & South Cottage Grove Avenue, by S S Beman, 1880-2. The central 3 storey portion, which housed the offices of the Pullman Palace Car Company, survives, the flanking wings, extending a total length of 210 metres, do not. [Condit, Rise of the Skyscraper, p 203; Bach & Wolfson, p 328; Bruegmann, p 28; Lowe, pp 60-61, Pullmania web site]	angle view of building, mainly 2 & 3 storeys broken up into pavilions, with mansard roofs at centres each elevation.
29		2/9	'Pullman. 2. arcade from N.W. / J.W. Taylor, Publisher / 146 La Salle St, Chicago'	obv: 'Pullman Chicago' rev: -	Chicago: Pullman Arcade	identical view, slightly clearer
30		3/9	'Pullman. 2. arcade from N.W. / J.W. Taylor, Publisher / 146 La Salle St, Chicago'	obv: 'Pullman Chicago' rev: -	Chicago: Pullman Arcade	identical view, substantially better contrast
31		4/9	'Pullman. [...] detail of South Entrance. / J.W. Taylor [Publisher] / 146 La Salle St, Chicago'	obv: 'Pullman Chicago' rev: -	Chicago: Pullman Arcade	detail of entrance to arcade in previous building, with an arcaded corbel table of an almost Furnessian character across the bressummer
32		5/9	'L W - Taylor - Photo Chi''853 / Pullman Bldg / JWT''[the 'L' is probably a 'J' in reverse, written backwards on the neg]	obv: 'Pullman Buildings Chicago' rev: 'Pullman Buildings / Chicago / S.S. Beman / Architects'	Chicago: Pullman Building [offices], 200 South Michigan Avenue, sw cnr Adams St, by S S Beman, 1884 (replaced by the Borg-Warner Building in 1958) [Condit, Rise of the Skyscraper, p 203; Bach & Wolfson, p 15; Randall p 100; 1883-4, pp 49-50, Pullmania web site]	corner view of 9 st building with angle turret, mainly segmental arch openings
33		6/9	'2103'	obv: 'Pullman Chicago' rev: 'Pulman [sic] Bldg / S.S. Beman / Chicago'	Chicago: Pullman Building [offices]	detail within main archway of previous, looking towards the exterior: square glazed skylights, Sullivanesque ornament
34		7/9	'852'	obv: 'Pulman [sic] Blds Chicago' rev: 'Pulman [sic] Bldgs / Chicago'	Chicago: Pullman Building [offices]	archway rto stairwell, apparently within the previous bldg
35		8/9	'272'	obv: 'Pullman Chicago' rev: 'Pulman [sic] Block / Chicago / Mr Beeman Arch'	Chicago: Pullman Building [offices]	detail of grd fl arcade & first floor windows with one edge of main arch
36		10/9	'2117'	obv: 'Chicago' rev: 'Pulman [sic] Bdgs / Chicago / S Beman Arch'	Chicago: Pullman Building [offices]	interior space with glazed screen & doors, glazed roof lights, balustraded edges of two light or stair wells
37		11/9 [A]	-	obv: 'Pulman [sic] Block Chicago' rev: 'Chicago / Pulman [sic] Block / Beeman [sic] Ar'	Chicago: Pullman Building [offices]	same as previous
38		11/9 [B]	'5069 Taylor'	obv: 'Palmer House Chicago' 'No 2' [plus Kilburn's stamp]rev: 'Palmer House / Barber Shop / Chicago' [plus Kilburn's stamp]	Chicago: Palmer House	Large barber's saloon with mirrors down either side & facing armchairs, central columns, elaborate Gothic marble stand with basins
39		12/9	'8023 / J.W.T'	obv: 'Palmer House Chicago' 'No 3' [plus Kilburn's stamp]rev: [Kilburn's stamp]	Chicago: Palmer House III, 17 East Monroe St, by J M Van Osdel & C W Palmer, 1874-5 (first fireproof hotel), replaced 1925 [Bach & Wolfson, p 44; Witheys, pp 616-7; Bruegmann, pp 16-18; Zukowsky, pp 268-9].	Large reception rm with elaborate shallow relief decoration on ceiling, ?stencilled wall surfaces; Corinthian pilastrated piers at one side, occasional chairs &c.