Bldg. 51 Museum Collection
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very well-maintained late 1870's or early 1880's richly colored sapphire blue "attic" hutchinson style j.a. lomax blobtop soda bottle with original stopper -
nice assortment of original late 19th and early 20th century original chicago privy-dug druggist bottles with bold and deeply embossed markings -
mid-1880's transferware fragments, "blob top" bottles, salt-glazed stoneware and medicinal bottle fragments -
19th century chicago residential wood-lined privey medicinal and soda/ mineral water bottles and fragments -
six matching original 19th century antique american medical chicago privy dug richly colored cobalt blue squat neck bromo-seltzer glass bottles with embossed lettering -
simple yet elegantly designed original antique american ornamental cast iron reliance building interior office window sash lifts with a uniform brushed metal finish -
single 19th original and intact freestanding hand-hewn solid pine wood chicago worker cottage residential foundation piling or post with lightly sanded finish -
highly collectible c. 1920 russell and erwin manufacturing company's "catalogue of hardware" volume 11 -
two historically important early 20th century frank lloyd wright-designed francis w. little house art glass interior doors with copper-plated zinc caming -
large lot of early 20th century mailed hand-written letters to and from oyen family members pertaining to business and travel -
early 20th century moutned and signed oyen polychromatic watercolor interior architectural rendering of courthouse -
original early 20th century american wood framed gelatin silver print of the oyen decorating firm's artists on a residential jobsite -
original 1912-15 altered gelatin silver print of odin j. oyen's newly-built extant building (front facade) located at 507 main street -
rare all origjnal c. 1880's matted charcoal experimental rendering of intricately designed acanthus leaves by odin j. oyen -
massive alex soderburg hand-painted oil on canvas "justice" mural for courthouse building -
original early 1860's skillfully crafted emerald green hand-blown "pine tree tar cordial" dug bottle with pontil scar and slanted neck containing vertical straw marks ans seeds -
two matching original historically important early 1890's interior ornamental cast iron union trust building commercial door louis h. sullivan-designed backplates or escutcheons -
stunning all original and historically important ornamental gilded omolu cast bronze interior uptown theater single electric pendant light with richly colored cased glass shade -
all original c. 1855 historically important exterior residential oversized john kent russell residence yellow pine wood eave bracket or corbel constructed with square nails -
matching set of original museum quality frank lloyd wright-designed c. 1908 avery coonley living room leaded art glass door panes or insets removed in or around 1911 -
original undated richard nickel silver gelatin photograph or print depicting the facade of adler and sullivan's chicago stock exchange building -
rare mid-1950's original richard nickel silver gelatin photograph or print of the levi rosenfeld commercial building facade shortly before demolition -
original early 20th century unrestored historically important exterior cast concrete midway gardens diminutive building panel fragment with exposed rebar -
incredibly rare late 19th century oversized ornamental copper-plated cast iron guaranty building interior lobby ceiling medallion with richly ornate foliage