Richard Nickel Archive
1850-2011 (bulk 1945-1972)
Richard Nickel (1928-1972)
The Richard Nickel Archive includes approximately 15,000 negatives, photographs, contact sheets, items of correspondence, documents, architectural drawings and reproductions, digital image files, realia, and other effects, including Nickel’s personal library. The central focus of the Nickel Archive is the photographs and historical files pertaining to the architecture of Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan, known during their partnership from 1880 to 1895 as Adler & Sullivan Architects. The collection also highlights the individual projects of both Adler and Sullivan separately after 1895. In addition to the material related to Adler and Sullivan and the architects of the Chicago School, the collection is particularly rich in the work of the Prairie School and Second Chicago School architectural movements.
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Black and white and color photographs, black and white and color contact prints, black and white and color slides, black and white and color transparencies, black and white and color negatives, photostats, correspondence, printed papers, photocopies, typescript papers, holograph papers, printed papers, maps, drawings, architectural reprographic prints, realia, VHS videocassettes and CD-ROMs.