Sidney Epstein photographs, 1968

Four photographs taken at the Graham Foundation in Chicago of a meeting of representatives of the four Chicago firms that were hired by the General Services Administration to design and construct the Everett McKinley Dirksen U.S. Courthouse and the Kluczynski Federal Building. These photos were probably taken in or around 1968 as Mies was present that day and died in the summer of 1969. Three of the photographs feature Mies alone, either seated at a table (1) or standing next to a bust of himself (2). The final photograph shows a table surrounded by the firms' representatives. They have been partially indentified by one who had been in attendance (Sidney Epstein). On the right side of the table, from foreground and then back, is: 1) Sidney Epstein; 2) Mies van der Rohe; 3) An unknown representative from Schmidt, Gardner, and Erikson. On the left side of the table (from foreground to back), starting with the first man who is fully in the picture: 1) Bruno Conterator; 2) Charles Murphy (looking to his left); 3) Raymond Epstein. Sidney Epstein was (as of 2013) not able to identify the men at the narrow ends of the table, nor the two men facing each other at the far end.