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"A Corner in Wheat" (in D.W. Griffith: Years of Discovery, 1909-1913). Dir. D.W. Griffith. DVD. Prod. for DVD by David Shepard. Blackhawk Films Collection. Dist. Image Entertainment, 2002.
“A Safe Elevator.” Engineering News. V. 11, 1884. p. 150.
Adler, Dankmar. "The First Elevators" (Letter to the editor). The Economist. V. 5, May 1891. p. 798.
American Society of Civil Engineers. Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers. New York: American Society of Civil Engineers, 1872-.
The Apartment. Dir. & Prod. Billy Wilder. Mirisch Company, 1960. VHS. MGM/UA Home Video, 1988.
Barney, G.C. Elevator Technology. New York: Halsted Press, 1986.
Bechdolt, John Ernest. Going Up: the Story of Vertical Transportation. Pictures by Jeanne Bendick. New York: Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, 1948.
Being John Malkovitch. Dir. Spike Jonze. Gramercy Pictures, 1999. DVD. USA Home Entertainment, 2000.
Bluestone, Daniel M. Constructing Chicago. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.
“Building Construction Details.” The Engineering and Building Record. November 12, 1887.
Burnham, Daniel H. and Edward Bennett, architects. Plan of Chicago prepared under the direction of the Commercial Club during the years MCMVI, MCMVII, and MCMVIII. Chicago Commercial Club, 1909.
Carson, Arthur. The Elevator Shaft. Oakland, CA: Hammerparp Press, 1972.
Castle, Alison, ed. Billy Wilder’s Some Like it Hot: the Funniest Film Ever Made: the Complete Book. Köln, New York: Taschen, 2001.
Chang, Kenneth. "Not Science Fiction: an Elevator to Space." New York Times, September 30, 2004. Section F, p. 1.
Chicago Daily News, Inc., photographer. “Cook County Hospital, Charles Moore, elevator operator, standing in elevator door.” Graphic. ca. 1911.**
Chicago Daily News, Inc., photographer. “Marshall Field’s and Company, Blanche Hildebrand, a woman elevator operator.” Graphic. 1918.**
Chicago’s Landmark Structures: an Inventory. Chicago: Landmarks Preservation Council & Service, 1974-5.
Cronon, William. Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. New York: W.W. Norton, 1991.
Dahl, Roald. Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972.*
“Direct Balance Lift at the Hotel Australia.” Engineering. V. 58, 1894. p. 830, illustration p. 828.
Eiffel, Gustave. La Tour Eiffel en 1900. Paris: Masson, 1902.
“Electric Lifts, Western of France Railway.” Engineering. V. 72, 1901. p.558.
“Electric Passenger and Goods Lifts.” Engineering. V. 76, 1903. p. 280, illustration p. 271.
“Electric Passenger Lifts for the Baker Street and Waterloo Railway.” Engineering. V. 82, 1906. p. 380-383 w/illustration.
“Electrically Driven Hydraulic Passenger Lifts.” Engineering. V. 77, 1904. p. 189, illustration pp. 1 86-187.
“Elevator Accident.” Engineering News. V. 18, 1887. p. 141.
“Elevator Accident.” Engineering Record. V. 50,
1904. p. 355.
“Elevator Safety Appliances.” Engineering. V. 74, 1902.
p. 256 w/illustration.
Engelert, Kerstin. Lifts in Berlin: 100 Years of History. Berlin: Jovis, 1998.
“Floor Area Ratios of Office Building Elevators.” Engineering Record. V. 49, 1904. p. 725.
Garwin, Richard L. "Shooting for the Sky." New York Times, September 30, 2004. Section F, p. 4.
Glessner, John George M., photographer. John George M. Glessner collection. Graphic. 1880s-1890s, bulk 1892-1893.**
Goodwin, Jason. Otis: Giving Rise to the Modern City. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2001.
Hedging Symposium for Country Grain Elevator Operators, Chicago, 1963. Proceedings of the Hedging Symposium for Country Grain Elevator Operators, Board of Trade of the City of Chicago, Dec. 11-12, 1963. Chicago, 1963.
Hedrich-Blessing (Firm), photographer. “Crane Company plant in Chicago (Ill.).” Graphic. N.d.**
Hedrich-Blessing (Firm), photographer. “Elevator cars for Mercantile Exchange in Chicago (Ill.).” Graphic. N.d.**
Hedrich-Blessing (Firm), photographer. “Elevator Operator.” Graphic. N.d.**
Hedrich-Blessing (Firm), photographer. “Elevator Shaft.” Graphic. N.d.**
Hedrich-Blessing (Firm), photographer. “Medals and awards for Crane Co.” Graphic. N.d.**
Hedrich-Blessing (Firm), photographer. “Skyride cab at the Century of Progress.” Graphic. N.d.**
Hedrich-Blessing (Firm), photographer. “Unidentified Department Store.” Graphic. N.d.**
The Hours. Dir. Stephen Daldry. Prod. Scott Rudin, Robert Fox. Paramount Pictures, 2002. DVD. Paramount Home Entertainment, 2003.
Howells, William Dean. The Elevator: [a] farce. Boston: Ticknor, 1885.
“Hydro-Electric Elevator in Tudor Apts., Chicago.” Engineering Record. V. 53, 1906. p. 225 w/photograph.
Illinois Department of Conservation; National Park Service. "Seneca Grain Elevator: Illinois & Michigan Canal State Trail, I&M Canal National Heritage Corridor." Washington, D.C.: The Service, 1988.
Journal (Western Society of Engineers). Chicago. V. 13, 1908.
Kaplan, Marilyn E. Replicating Historic Elevator Enclosures. Washington, D.C.: National Park Service, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1989.
Keen, Martin L. How it Works. Illustrated by Lloyd P. Birmingham. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1972.
The Lakeside Annual Directory of the City of Chicago. Chicago: Chicago Directory Co., 1875-1917.
Lambert, Théodore. Escaliers et Ascenseurs. Paris: C. Schmid, 1898. (Second image; Third image)
Lanza, Joseph. Elevator Music: a Surreal History of Muzak, Easy-Listening, and Other Moodsong. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994.
"The Lifts in the Eiffel Tower." The Engineer (London). July 19, 1889.
Macaulay, David. The Way Things Work. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988.
Magnano Lampugnani, Vittorio, et. al., eds. Vertical: Lift, Escalator, Paternoster: a Cultural History of Vertical Transport. Berlin: Ernst & Sohn, 1994.
Metropolis. Dir. Fritz Lang. Prod. Erich Pommer, 1927. DVD. Dist. Kino International Corporation, 2002.
Mitchell, S. Augustus. Mitchell’s New General Atlas. Philadelphia: S.A. Mitchell, 1872.
[Monadnock Cartoon]. Chicago Tribune. February 24, 1896.
North by Northwest. Dir. & Prod. Alfred Hitchcock. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1959. DVD. Criterion Collection. MGM/UA Home Video; dist. Voyager Company, 1988.
[Palmolive Building Advertisement]. Chicago [magazine]. December 2003.
“Passenger Elevators.” Engineering. V. 78, 1904. p. 603.
Patent No. 287,033. Pneumatic Elevator. Granted to Joseph Lewis, Chicago. Official Gazette. United States Patent Office. October 23, 1883.
Patents Collection. Chicago Historical Society. 1646-.**
Peterson, Leroy A. Elisha Graves Otis, 1811-1861, and his Iinfluence Upon Vertical Transportation. New York: Newcomen Society of England, 1945.
Ralph, Julian. Harper’s Chicago and the World’s Fair; the chapters on the exposition being collated from official sources and approved by the Department of Publicity and Promotion of the World's Columbian exposition. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1893.
Randall, Frank A. History of the Development of Building Construction in Chicago. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1971.
Some Like it Hot. Dir. & Prod. Billy Wilder. Mirisch Company, 1959. VHS. Dist. CBS/Fox Video, 1984.
Star Trek IV: the Voyage Home. Dir. Leonard Nimoy. Prod. Harve Bennett. Paramount Pictures, 1986. DVD. Paramount Pictures, 1999.
Tyler Company (Cleveland Ohio). Elevator Cars [and] Elevator Entrances. Cleveland: The Tyler Company, 1927.
Vernon, William W. William W. Vernon writings (manuscript). 1885-1921.**
Vogel, Robert M. Elevator Systems of the Eiffel Tower. 1889. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1961.
Walker, Henry C. “Protection of Lift Shafts, and Safety Devices in Connection with Lift-Doors and Controlling Gear.” Engineering. V. 81, 1906. pp. 423-426 w/illustration.
Water & Sewage Works. Chicago: Scranton Pub. Co. Extent of publication: v. 1-127, no. 12; 1890-Dec. 1980.
"Where No Man Has Gone Before." Star Trek, the Original Series. Volume 1, Episode 2, 1966. DVD. Paramount Home Video, 1999.
*This edition of Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator was anonymously lent to the library for the duration of the exhibit. The 2001 edition, from Alfred A. Knopf, has since been ordered for the Main Curriculum Collection.
**Material located at the Chicago Historical Society.
