Arthur Siegel Photograph Collection (63 boxes of photographic prints of various sizes, 5 Daguerreotype photographs, 8 boxes of slides and transparencies, 7 boxes of non-graphic material ) consists primarily of photographs by professional photographer Siegel of people, places and events in the Chicago area, including many photographs by Siegel and other photographers taken for the book Chicago's Famous Buildings. Includes photographic work for Chicago area businesses and student photographs and transparencies from Siegel's students at Chicago's Institute of Design. Contact sheets are from Siegel's assignments with Time-Life publications. There is a small amount of Siegel's early work in Detroit and his experimental photographs. One box contains photographs and slides of Siegel, his family, students, and other images relating to his personal life. Also includes one box of copy photoprints and slides from material retained by Irene Siegel.