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> Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 1:07 PM
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> Subject: [BP] Cass Gilbert warehouse
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> 
> Sweethearts, that ain't the "original rendering" of 
> the building.  Among other things it bears a seven-digit 
> phone number (which took place well after the building was 
> constructed).  It's a letterhead, subject to all sorts of 
> foolishness (since not designed by Registered Architect, 
> among other things).  Not sure why somebody put the windows, 
> but they aren't there now, and weren't there originally.  

But judging from the trucks in the image itself, it would appear to be
an older image retained on the letterhead, even as it was reprinted to
incorporate the newfangled telephone exchange dialing information.

Certainly artist's license was frequently employed on these romantic
renderings of peoples' pride and joy intended to convey the magnificence
of their enterprise, but as I look at the picture, I see the faint
indication of the "mullion" elements, but they have been washed out,
maybe because the artist chose to do so, or it was a crappy lithograph
that over years of being re-done for each successive change of
letterhead, by the time this letterhead was produced, the windows are
now just a black blob.

D.


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