The artistic guide to Chicago and the World's Columbian Exposition. Illustrated
A promotional guidebook published in Chicago in 1891 by R. S. Peale Co., written to introduce visitors to the city and the coming World's Columbian Exposition. The pictures are black-and-white photographs and engravings of civic buildings, streets and monuments, showing late nineteenth-century Chicago architecture in dense masonry, tall office blocks and formal public scenes that a designer could use for period urban references.
