The book of the fair : an historical and descriptive presentation of the world's science, art, and industry, as viewed through the Columbian exposition at Chicago in 1893 ...
The Book of the Fair is a large illustrated survey of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, written by Hubert Howe Bancroft and published in Chicago for general readers interested in world science, art and industry. The photographs show exhibition interiors and objects, including a silver vase, a display of ornate metalwork and glassware, and heavy machinery under bunting, and a designer might take from them the dense, formal arrangements of decorative objects and the period's grand exhibition-hall staging.
