CHICAGO, IL.- The Richard Nickel Committee–a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving and making accessible the images and research work of architectural photographer Richard Nickel (1928-1972)–has recently donated Nickel’s archive documenting the work of Dankmar Adler, Louis H. Sullivan, and other noted Chicago architects to the Art Institute of Chicago‘s Ryerson & Burnham Libraries. The Richard Nickel Archive includes approximately 15,000 negatives, photographs, contact sheets, items of correspondence, documents, architectural drawings and reproductions, digital image files, realia, and other effects, including Nickel’s personal library. Everything in the archive was created or owned by Richard Nickel or by the Richard Nickel Committee. The acquisition of the Nickel archive makes the Art Institute the premier repository in the nation for architectural photography and enhances its holdings of material