Universal Portland Cement Co. Interior Stable, Chicago--Gorgeous c. 1910s-20s Silver Print Mounted on Linen sinew but completely stable and sound

but completely stable and sound and probably indestructible

and here I think the wintery trees and traces of her skates on the ice are all the better felt in the negative

Very rare that I come across a whimsy as fancy and skillfully carved as this one

When the carousel is still

Universal Portland Cement Co. Interior Stable, Chicago--Gorgeous c. 1910s-20s Silver Print Mounted on Linen sinew but completely stable and soundI 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