Join us on Thursday, October 26, from 6:00-7:00 for the Ryerson & Burnham Archives&rsquo

Join us on Thursday, October 26, from 6:00-7:00 for the Ryerson & Burnham Archives’ Chicago Open Archives event, The Skyscraper: Innovation and Icon in Chicago.Examine Chicago’s unique contribution to the most iconic building type of the modern era through a wide variety of papers, drawings, and photographs from the Ryerson & Burnham Archives collections, presented by our Archives staff.

Here you see a photograph of William Le Baron Jenney’s Home Insurance Building (1884-1885) from the Historic Architecture and Landscape Image Collection; a working drawing of the Carbide and Carbon Building (1929) by the Burnham Brothers from the Daniel H. Burham, Jr., and Hubert Burnham Papers; and Mies van der Rohe’s 860-880 Lake Shore Drive (1948-1949), in a photograph from the Richard Nickel Collection.