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RECLAMATION
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newspaper
brochure
advertisement
title selected covers of the Metropolis Chronicle
materials offset printing, unbound, edition 2750
dimensions 33 x 48.3 cm, 16 pages
publishing date originally published 1911-1913, republished 2008
design Nina Støttrup Larsen with Kristin Posehn
Reclamation was a reproduction
of the last remaining façade from the ghost town of Metropolis,
USA. Metropolis was founded in 1910 as a real estate venture by
The Pacific Reclamation Company, though due to insufficient water
rights, by 1925 the town was largely abandoned.
Made possible by
the Jan van Eyck Academie
and Museum De Paviljoens
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a republishing of selected covers of the Metropolis Chronicle, the newspaper of Metropolis, USA
above image view of the newspaper open, the left page shows the architect's original drawing of the Lincoln School
bottom image detail view of the first cover of the first issue of the Metropolis Chronicle (image from microfilm)
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