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How to photograph the Marshall field clock?
Iconic landmarks, the clocks were designed by the firm of Graham, Anderson, Probst and White, for the store's architect D.H. Burnham.
Each clock is made of 7¾ tons of cast bronze.
The face of the clock is 46" across, the minute hand is 27" and the hour hand is 20½" long. The clock is impulse operated from a master timepiece located in the store. The timepiece is checked twice daily with the Arlington time signal and corrects the clocks every hour.
Photographed over the century countless times, I wanted to present it not as a clock, but as part of the history of our city. Melding it into the city-scape as a face in the crowd.
The clock you see was installed at State and Washington in 1907 and as time moves "One Way" - second by second, minute by minute it is suddenly 2023.
I love how that "one way" sign becomes crucial in the narrative and an anchor for the deep perspective.
camera: Ricoh FF-3 AF (1982)
film: Kono Monolit 35mm
Mosaic vaulted Tiffany ceiling, in what was once the beautiful Marshall Field's department store in Chicago.
Post Christmas visit to The Walnut Room - Marshall Fields Department Store in Chicago. 4-shot Vertical Panorama
Looking down on the atrium from high above on 9th floor in Chicago's iconic Marshall Field's Building. (Now Macy's). The upper floors are now vacant with no public access.
Macro Mondays: Redux 2017 - Souvenir. My favorite theme of the year.
I found this souvenir among items I received from my mother. What a delightful souvenir of a famous Chicago place.
The matchbook is 3" long.
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Looking out from the Marshall Field's 'furniture floor' of their flagship store at State & Washington. .
This store was once the pinnacle of elegance when the company was taken over by Macy's, which has never been able to rise to the level of quality and service that the original Marshal Field & Company was known for.
The Tiffany ceiling was installed in 1907. It is both the first ceiling to use favrile iridescent glass and is the largest glass mosaic of it's kind containing over 1.6 million pieces. The State Street side of Marshall Field's (now Macy's State Street) was designed by the firm of Daniel Burnham and Company in 1902 and 1907. Marshall Field's is on the National Register of Historic Places #78001123, and is also a National Historic Landmark.
"Friends, Romans, countrymen... um... lend me your ears!"
It's Charlie Brown!
Hi, Charlie Brown!
We're listening!
Ears lent and bent!
"I found Rome as clay, I... um... I leave her as marble!"
Ooohh, very Caesariffic!
Ipsum Roma!
"I came, I saw, I'm bonkers!"
...laughter...
Charlie Brownus around townus!
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
Westland
No. 8430
Charlie Brown Around Town
Charlie Brownus Around Townus
Artist: D'Lee Dreyer and Heidi Rose
Sponsor: Marshall Field's
2001, Westland Giftware
The neon lights from a nearby building illuminate the Randolph CTA stop in Chicago's Loop. It was a very foggy night so maybe that has something to do with how purple the station got. But you can also see how the street lights in the distance got very illuminated. I like how the old Marshall Field's sign is still up in the lower left of the composition. This photo reminds me a lot of the "Chicago L: Madison Stop" that I shot in January 2007.
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Shopping in Marshall Field's...now Macy's. Once "The" shopping destination of Chicago, Marshall Field's was purchased by Macy's with less than stellar long term results. The locals really hated changing the iconic name and many essentially boycotted the store. Perhaps best not to mess with a good thing.
. . . The "Great Clocks" outside the former Marshall Fields landmark store in Chicago reminds us to get that extra hour of sleep on Saturday night!
"The first of the Marshall Field's great clocks and was installed at the corner of Washington and State Streets on November 26, 1897. It soon became Chicago's landmark.
- The Great Clock at State & Washington was first installed in 1897. It was replaced in 1907 with the one that we see today..
- The Great Clock at State & Randolph was installed in 1904.
Designed by the firm of Graham, Anderson, Probst and White, each clock is made of 7¾ tons of cast bronze and hung by ornamental ironwork projected several feet from the building.
The face of the clock is 46" across, the minute hand is 27" and the hour hand is 20½" long. The clock is impulse operated from a master timepiece located in the store. The timepiece is checked twice daily with the Arlington time signal and corrects the clocks every hour. On November 3, 1945 the clock was immortalized in a Norman Rockwell Saturday Evening Post cover with a repairman setting the landmark clock by his own pocket watch."
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One of two clocks that adorn Macy;s formerly Marshall Fields, State Street Store. The store is a Designated Chicago Landmark, thus the Marshall Field's signs must remain in place.
The Marshall Field monument was designed by Henry Bacon and sculptor Daniel Chester French sculpted the statue "Memory". Graceland Cemetery is on the National Register of Historic Places #00001628.
Formerly the iconic Marshall Field’s store, Macy’s on State Street in Chicago’s Loop is home to a sprawling, beautiful feature – you just have to look up seven stories. Above the cosmetic counters, there is a 6,000-square-foot mosaic made of over one million pieces of glass. Completed in 1907, the mosaic was designed by Louis C. Tiffany, art director of famed Tiffany & Co. Favrile glass is a type of iridescent art glass developed by Louis Comfort Tiffany. He patented this process in 1894 and first produced the glass for manufacture in 1896 in Queens, New York. It differs from most iridescent glasses because the color is ingrained in the glass itself, as well as having distinctive coloring. Tiffany won a grand prize at the 1900 Paris Exposition for his Favrile glass. This is the largest Favrile Tiffany dome. (The actual largest Tiffany dome is a few blocks away at the Chicago Cultural Center)
Marshall Field's Great Clock
Chicago, Illinois
The Great Clock was installed on Marshall Field’s State Street Store on November 26, 1897. Marshall Field envisioned his great clock as a beacon that could be seen for miles and attract crowds to his store which he saw as a meeting place. Norman Rockwell immortalized this famous clock when he produced a painting of the clock called The Clock Mender for the cover of the Saturday Evening Post on November 3, 1945.
Selected for inclusion in the Schmap guide of Chicago: Marshall Field's and Company
In 1897, the old 1879 store was rebuilt and had two additional floors added, while the first of Marshall Field's Great Clocks was installed at the corner of Washington and State Streets on November 26.
State Street. Chicago, IL.
Photo by John Lishamer Photography (www.johnlishamer.com) All Rights Reserved.
Shown is the iconic Great Clock of the former Marshall Field & Company flagship store (now Macy's) at the corner of State and Washington St. in Chicago's Loop. The clock was installed in 1907, and replaced an earlier clock hung at this intersection in 1897. Although this clock is more famous, there is a second Great Clock at the State and Randolph St. corner of the store that was hung three years earlier in 1904.
Each of the clocks weigh 7-3/4 tons and are hung by ornamental ironwork. The Marshall Field & Company building is a National Historic Landmark.
The Marshall Field's Christmas tree in the Walnut room that has been a tradition for 100 years (1907 - 2007) since the store opened. This year the tree was decorated by Martha Stewart.
Visiting Marshall Field's and grabbing a bite to eat at the Walnut Room on the 7th floor is a tradition for most Chicago folks...
The holiday season begins this week, so one of my favourite places during this time... near the iconic Marshall Field’s clocks. Yes. Marshall Field’s. Not Macy’s. Never. Just no.🚫
A rarity for Santa Cruz County, first seen by Phoebe Barnes on Christmas by Phoebe Barnes. It took a while, but many top birders kept looking. I was very fortunate to get to see and photograph this bird! This Phoebe is often found in barns in the East. I can't resist, and not by Barnes on the West Coast. But this Phoebe was, and is. This one has an eponymous call, and an eponymous finder. It say, "Phoebe, phoebity, phoebity." Well, that's a lot to parse!
Christmas in the Good Old Days: Uniformed soldiers of the Salvation Army playing for dollars & cents in front of Marshall Field's flagship store on State Street.
Canon FTBn + FD 50mm f/1.8 on Kodachrome 25 film.
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In 1953 Joseph Kennedy, wanting “to immortalize outstanding American merchants,” commissioned eight bronze busts, each four times life-size, for what came to be known as the Merchandise Mart Hall of Fame. Resting on white pedestals along the Chicago River and facing north toward the gold front door of the building are busts of Frank Winfield Woolworth, Marshall Field, Aaron Montgomery Ward, Julius Rosenwald and Robert E. Wood (both associated with Sears, Roebuck and Company), John Wanamaker, Edward A. Filene, and George Huntington Hartford (founder of the A&P grocery chain).
A little mist in the air.
When I was a teenager I had the maddest crush on then 21 JumpStreet rising star, Johnny Depp. The cast were signing autographs at the old Marshall Field's in downtown Chicago. Here I am about to shake his hand. I got to meet him and TOUCH him! He's looking at me and now he's looking at you! So cute!
Haven't we met
You're some kind of beautiful stranger
You could be good for me
I've had the taste for danger
-Madonna
The Tiffany ceiling was installed in 1907. It is both the first ceiling to use favrile iridescent glass and is the largest glass mosaic of it's kind containing over 1.6 million pieces. The State Street side of Marshall Field's (now Macy's State Street) was designed by the firm of Daniel Burnham and Company in 1902 and 1907. Marshall Field's is on the National Register of Historic Places #78001123, and is also a National Historic Landmark.
1965 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu SS convertible.
Downtown, The Loop, Chicago, Illinois.
Wednesday, May 7, 2015.
The original Marshall Fields building on State Street in downtown Chicago The dome was completed in 1907 and contains more than 1.6 million pieces of Tiffany’s own handmade iridescent glass.
The former Hudson's / Marshall Field's / Macy's department store at the Northland Center.
Northland Center revisited - I have a large album of pictures from this mall here (www.flickr.com/photos/fanofretail/albums/72157651157963320) and a write-up on the mall here (www.deadanddyingretail.com/2015/03/northland-center-in-so...). These pictures are from my return visit in January 2016 after the mall closed in April 2015. These pictures were taken from quite a distance away since the mall has security and police all over the place.
The Northland Center was opened in March 1954 and closed in April 2015. The shopping center was designed by Victor Gruen and developed by the J.L.Hudson Company. Northland Center was the largest shopping center in America when it opened and had the largest department store branch in the world. In 1974, the shopping center was enclosed plus JCPenney, and Montgomery Ward were added as anchors. MainStreet / Kohl's and Target were later anchor stores as well. Kohl's closed 1994, Montgomery Ward closed 1998, JCPenney closed 1999, Target closed 2015 (February 1st), and Macy's closed 2015 (March 22nd).
Northland Center - Greenfield Road, John C Lodge Freeway, and West 8 Mile Road - Southfield, Michigan
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