Chicago’s River and NYC’s sixth boro share features, one of which is efforts of artists to attraction flighty attentions to the water, and one hopes to the next step . . . realization of commercial possibilities of the waterways.
What’s this? Here’s a start.
Here’s the next question: whose head
is memorialized in yellow?
in duplicate and
why is this significant?
Answers later. All photos by Will Van Dorp.
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September 20, 2017 at 2:50 pm
Rembert
A portrait of August Roterberg as a young man (i.e. without mustache)?
http://www.geniimagazine.com/magicpedia/August_Roterberg
September 21, 2017 at 10:07 am
tugster
That’s a good guess, the person depicted is an immigrant from another country and someone who arrived and departed Chicago before Roterberg arrived.
September 21, 2017 at 1:19 pm
Rembert
Beginning in the present time, I learned a lot about the history of Chicago, before I found: Jean Baptiste Point du Sable.