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(COMMONWEALTH EDISON CO.)
Album containing 48 photographs chronicling the expansion of the Commonwealth Edison Company,
its Waukegan Generating [Energy] Company, outside of Chicago. The photographer recorded the
construction of the building over a period of several years and returned in the 1940s. The earliest
pictures are erector-set-like images depicting variant, well-composed views of a skeletal structure rising
in elevation, and general scenes of the work site, which lacks any human activity; the fully operational
building (with 3 billowing smokestacks), scenes of the conveyor system, plus underground pictures of
coal mills, manholes, duct lines, and laborers beneath the street replacing cables for the coal systems
fill out the narrative. Silver prints, 7
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inches (19.1x24.1 cm.), linen backed, with caption
information in the negative. Oblong 4to, leatherette, twin-bolt binding. 1926-1950
[700/1,000]
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