Amateur photographs have a frolic at the Open House. Here is a group of graphic arts students from Northwestern University who made an organized your of the Open House. They took their pictures in connection with their journalism and graphic arts...
Aerial views; Government facilities; Construction;
Text from photo: Fine Arts Commission approval then and now: In 1923 the under-construction U. S. Chamber of Commerce building shows the classic appearance in concert with the Lafayette Square scene. In 1980 the U. S. Chamber retains its classic...
Typed caption: "In a virtual blackout, operators inspect motion picture film at DuPont's Photo Products plant at Parlin, New Jersey. The company also makes x-ray film, portrait film, and special products for the graphic arts field at this plant."
Collection guide; Business leaders; Construction and building industry
Collection guide for John McShain papers. McShain was a Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.,-based building contractor. His major projects included the White House renovation (1950-1951), the Pentagon, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library...
Photo of 12 volumes of an encyclopedia-type book. Possibly related to the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes (International Exposition of Modern Industrial and Decorative Arts), a World's fair held in Paris,...
Typed caption: Elegant and very feminine-showing Balmain's glamorizing touch in every graceful line-is this evening gown in snowy white nylon point d'esprit, designed in the flattering princess line so prominent in the Paris couture collections...
Interior decoration; Interior design; Interior design drawings; Interior design drawings; Exhibitions; Art deco; Color in interior decoration
Portfolio of fifty color images of contemporary French interiors. The images were part of the Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes (1925 : Paris, France).
Out of an inexhaustible source of raw material- coal, air and water- chemists in recent years have been producing new and vitally important products for modern life. Among these are textiles, dyes, antifreeze solutions, perfume bases and plastics....
