[1] The Chicago History Museum houses the archive of the first 50 years of photography (1929–1979), where it is available for viewing by the public.
[2] Hedrich Blessing collaborated with architects and designers both nationally and internationally[3] but also undertook non-architectural work; industrial, product, editorial, and corporate photography.
[4] The firm was founded by 21 year old photographer Ken Hedrich, who had studied his craft at the New York Institute of Photography,[5] and his business partner Henry Blessing.
[7] The studio became associated with documenting the modern architecture movement, for example, the work of Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, Albert Kahn, Buckminster Fuller, Eero Saarinen, Minoru Yamasaki, Harry Weese and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
In 2000-2001 the Chicago History Museum held an exhibition displaying images from the first 70 years of architectural photography from Hedrich Blessing.