Acme Coke Plant

Open URL Acme Coke Plant
  • Title Acme Coke Plant
  • Description View of the Acme Coke Plant, located west of South Torrence Avenue and north of 116th Street. A quenching tower, used for cooling high temperature exhaust gases with water vapor, is on the left of the photograph next to the smokestacks. The Acme plant was shut down in 2001.
  • Notes Photograph credit: Brubaker, C. William, 1974
  • Iso Date 1905; 1929; 1974
  • Date 1905-1929 (Acme Coke Plant)
  • Geographic Coverage South Deering (Chicago, Ill.)
  • Community Area 51
  • Subject industrial districts; industrial buildings; factories (structures)
  • Subject Vocabulary Scheme AAT
  • Language English
  • Language Code eng
  • Type Image
  • Form architecture
  • View Description general view
  • Physical Description 35 mm. slide
  • Slide Binder Book12
  • Slide Accession Number 12-9-E
  • Collection C. William Brubaker Collection (University of Illinois at Chicago)
  • Repository University of Illinois at Chicago. Library. [Visual Resources].
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  • Local Identifier bru012_09_eF
  • Item Url http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/u?/uic_bru,1426
  • Digital Collection C. William Brubaker Collection
  • Rights The University of Illinois at Chicago College of Architecture and the Arts holds reproduction and licensing rights. For more information, please email: lib-permissions@uic.edu.