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A work made of color lithograph on cream wove paper.

All the Sights of London by Underground (Central Area), 1928

E. G. Perman

A work made of wool and cotton; tapestry weave.

Josephine Baker, 1974

Robert Emmet Brady

A sepia-tones aerial plan drawing of a park with trees cut by roads and nonlinear paths, confined by less detailed gridded blocks.

Plan of Chicago, Plate 63, Plan of a Proposed Park, 1909

Daniel Hudson Burnham

An aerial site plan drawing of a park with trees and various nonlinear paths, confined by less-detailed gridded blocks.

Plan of Chicago, Plate 62, Plan of a Proposed Park, 1909

Daniel Hudson Burnham

A work made of ink and watercolor on paper.

Plan of the Center of the City, the 1909 Plan of Chicago, 1909

Daniel Hudson Burnham

A sepia-toned aerial perspective drawing of Chicago's lakefront and the city behind it.

Plate 49 from Plan of Chicago 1909: Chicago. View of the City from Jackson Park to Grant Park, Looking Towards the West. The proposed shore treatment as a park enclosing a waterway (or a series of lagoons) is shown, together with the enlarged yacht harbor, recreation piers, and a scheme for Grant Park., 1907

Daniel Hudson Burnham

An aerial drawing of a city plan depicting streets, railway lines, piers, and parks, "Yacht Harbor" written on a body of water at bottom. Transit pathways form a dense grid intersected by diagonal lines, many of which coverage near the center.

Plate 110 from The Plan of Chicago, 1909: Chicago. Plan of the Complete System of Street Circulation; Railway Stations; Parks, Boulevard Circuits and Radial Arteries; Public Recreation Piers, Yacht Harbor, and Pleasure-Boat Piers; Treatment of Grant Park; the Main Axis and the Civic Center, Presenting the City as a Complete Organism in which All its Functions are Related One to Another in such a Manner that it will Become a Unit, 1909

Daniel Hudson Burnham

A work made of cotton, plain weave; screen printed; permanently pleated.

Soft Sand, 1954

Astrid Sampe

A work made of graphite and watercolor on paper.

View of the Proposed Civic Center Plaza and Buildings, The 1909 Plan of Chicago, 1908

Daniel Hudson Burnham

An elevation drawing of an ornate, large central building with a tall dome flanked by two shorter flat-roofed buildings and hazy flat-roofed buildings in the background.

Plate 131 from The Plan of Chicago, 1909: Chicago. Elevation Showing the Group of Buildings Constituting the Proposed Civic Center., 1909

Daniel Hudson Burnham

A work made of graphite on paper.

Plate 119 from The Plan of Chicago, 1909: Chicago. Sketch Plan of the Intersection of Michigan Avenue and Twelfth Street, 1907

Daniel Hudson Burnham

A detailed sepia-toned map of Chicago with areas labeled and marked by red stars and boundary lines marked with colored ink and paint.

Plan of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, Diagram Showing City Growth, 1909

Daniel Hudson Burnham

A work made of graphite and watercolor on paper.

Plate 122 from The Plan of Chicago, 1909: Chicago. Railway Station Scheme West of the River Between Canal and Clinton Streets, Showing the Relation With the Civic Center., 1905

Daniel Hudson Burnham

A work made of colored ink on a printed map.

Plate 75 from The Plan of Chicago, 1909: Chicago. Diagram of the City, Showing Complete System of Inner Circuits, 1909

Daniel Hudson Burnham

A work made of ink and wash on paper.

The Plan of Chicago Plate 106, Chicago, Illinois, Presentation Drawing, 1909

Daniel Hudson Burnham

A work made of graphite and colored pencil on paper.

Plate 35 from Plan of Chicago 1909: Chicago, and Diagram of Lake Michigan. Proposed Roadway to connect all the towns along the shores of the Lake., 1909

Daniel Hudson Burnham

Perspective aerial drawing of Chicago's lakefront and harbor, park, and cityscape sprawling beyond the bottom of the page.

Plate 137 from The Plan of Chicago, 1909: Chicago. View of the Proposed Development in the Center of the City, from Twenty-Second Street to Chicago Avenue, Looking Towards the East Over the Civic Center to Grant Park and Lake Michigan, 1907

Daniel Hudson Burnham

An elevation drawing with a tall domed building at the center flanked by more buildings. A park and harbor in the foreground.

Plate 125 from The Plan of Chicago, 1909: Chicago. Elevation of Grant Park and Harbor; the Eastern Facade of the City on Michigan Avenue, and the Dome of the Administration Building of the Civic Center, Looking from Lake Michigan., 1909

Daniel Hudson Burnham

A work made of colored ink and paint on a printed map.

Plan of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, Railroad Circuits Diagram, 1909

Daniel Hudson Burnham

A work made of pastel on paper.

Plate 50 A from Plan of Chicago 1909: Chicago. View of the Proposed Park on the South Shore Looking Northwest Towards the City., 1896

Daniel Hudson Burnham

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