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 ...
A illustrated survey published in Chicago in 1893 by Hubert Howe Bancroft, describing the Columbian Exposition for a general readership interested in the world's science, art, and industry. Its pictures are black-and-white halftone photographs of exhibition halls, a railway car interior, machinery, and a lobster-pot capital, offering a designer period views of industrial interiors, ornament, and fairground display layouts.
