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Chapter V, "The World's Columbian Exposition" from Volume V of "History of the United States" by E. Benjamin Andrews (1905) is included to provide a contemporary description of the Exposition. ]
OFFICIAL VIEWS OF THE WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION
ISSUED BY THE
DEPARTMENT OF PHOTOGRAPHY
C. D. ARNOLD H. D. HIGINBOTHAM Official Photographers
1893
PRESS CHICAGO PHOTO-GRAVURE CO.
INDEX.
Scene Plate Administration Building 23, 25, 33 Agricultural Building 18 Arabian Village 112, 113, 114 Austrian Exhibit 9 Band Stand 26 Battle Ship "Illinois" 69 Belgian Exhibit. 10 Bell Telephone Exhibit 32 Blarney Castle 93 Brazilian Building 74 Cafe de la Marine 52 Cairo Street 103 Ceylon Building 79 Chocolate Pavilion 14 Choral Hall 42 Cliff Dwellers 90 Colonnade 20 Columbian Fountain 24, 28 Columbus' Caravels 85, 86 Court of Honor 15, 115 Dahomey Village 110 Donegal Castle. 95 Electricity Building 28, 29, 30, 31, 32 Ferris Wheel 91, 105 Fine Arts Palace 59, 60, 61 Fisheries Building 46, 53 French Exhibit 10 French Government Building 73 General Views 4, 16, 17, 19, 21. 27, 28, 33, 38, 44, 46, 48, 62, 66, 68, 97, 98 German Government Building 72 German Exhibits 8, 40, 87 German Village 99, 100 Government Buildings 54, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79 Guatemala Building 78 Hagenbeck's Arena 94 Hayti Building 75 Horticultural Building 43, 57 Illinois Building 47 Indian Pavilion 81 Indians' Wigwams, etc. 88, 89 Japanese Exhibits 49, 50, 51, 54, 55 Johore Bungalow
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: Official Views Of The World's Columbian Exposition
- 2: Plate 13 peristyle and quadriga
- 3: Plate 24 the columbian fountain
- 4: Plate 100 german village midway
- 5: THE WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION Illustration Parade
- 6: In Louisiana and Alabama Republicans fused with Populists
- 7: Early on the opening day of the Exposition
- 8: Swarms visited the Midway Plaisance