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A work made of gelatin silver print, from "the americans" (1955/56).

St. Francis, Gas Station and City Hall, Los Angeles, 1956, printed 1977

Robert Frank

A work made of gouache with casein, on ivory wove paper, laid down on ivory wove paper.

Fragment of a City, n.d.

Robert Jay Wolff

A work made of wood engraving on paper.

A Snow Slide in the City, published January 14, 1860

Winslow Homer

Blue stained glass windows depicting angels, musicians, trees.

America Windows, 1977

Marc Chagall

A triptych glass window in an oak frame with an asymmetrical geometric pattern of circles, squares, and rectangles in clear, red, green, blue, and black glass.

Triptych Window from the Coonley Playhouse, Riverside, Illinois, 1912 (removed 1967)

Frank Lloyd Wright

A work made of lithograph on cream wove paper.

The City Destroyed/Angels Dropping Stones over a City, from War: Mystical Images of War, 1914

Natalia Goncharova

A work made of pen and brown ink on tan wove paper.

Seven Sketches of a City Apartment, c. 1922

Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret)

Cream-colored bust of General Andrew Jackson in his military uniform.

General Andrew Jackson, 1819

William Rush

A work made of gouache, with touches of graphite, on illustration board.

Study for Aspects of Negro Life: The Negro in an African Setting, 1934

Aaron Douglas

A work made of gelatin silver print.

At the curb of a city street, Loma Linda, California, 1983, printed 1986

Robert Adams

A work made of silver.

Tetradrachm (Coin) Portraying Emperor Otho, 69, issued by the city of Antioch

Ancient Roman

A work made of gelatin silver print.

Untitled (Children Playing on City Street), 1940s

Sidney Grossman

A work made of pen and black ink, with brush and gray wash, on ivory laid paper.

The City Walls of Utrecht by the "Plompetoren", 1763

Paul Liender

Historical black and white photographical portrait of Black man in a suit, gold frame.

Frederick Douglass, 1847-52

Samuel J. Miller

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 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 albumen print.

Paris Fire (The Facade of City Hall), from the series "Paris Incendié", May 1871

Charles Soulier

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

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