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 large illustrated survey published in Chicago in 1893 by Hubert Howe Bancroft, documenting the World's Columbian Exposition for a general readership interested in world science, art and industry. Its pictures are photographic and engraved views of the fair's white neoclassical buildings, lagoon, promenade crowds and sculpture, useful to designers looking for Beaux-Arts architecture and period fairground scenes.
