Universal Portland Cement Co. Interior Stable, Chicago--Gorgeous c. 1910s-20s Silver Print Mounted on Linen funnel shaped Associated with logging and lumbering

Associated with logging and lumbering activities

This is a lovely late 19th century notebook of drawings

I especially love this little bit of reddish stamp giving the hat of the boy at right a little pompom

Wheels roll along smoothly

and certainly the most haunting

Universal Portland Cement Co. Interior Stable, Chicago--Gorgeous c. 1910s-20s Silver Print Mounted on Linen funnel shaped Associated with logging and lumberingI purchased this photograph and a second of the same Chicago cement company together but I think they are good for different reasons, so am listing them separately. This one for me is all about the formal gorgeousness of this industrial concrete interior, and the intensity of all of these suspended hooks, making it feel one part Brutalist's dream, one part meat locker, and one part Dia installation and rather haunting in its emptiness; absence ansd or