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, compiled by Hubert Howe Bancroft and published by The Bancroft Company in Chicago and San Francisco for general readers. Its photographic plates show exhibition architecture, a class photograph before a school building, and figures in costume; the building views, with their dense trees and tiered roofs, suggest how to lay out a crowded civic scene with a strong diagonal.
