Chicago Tribune glimpses of the World's fair; a selection of gems of the White city seen through the Tribune's camera
A photographic souvenir book published in Chicago by Laird and Lee in 1893, collecting views of the World's Columbian Exposition for visitors who wanted a keepsake of the White City. The pictures are black-and-white halftone photographs of exhibition grounds, state buildings, a foreign pavilion and the illuminated Administration Building, shot from elevated and street-level angles with dense crowds, trees and promenading figures; a designer could draw on their Beaux-Arts architecture, sepia-grey tonality and the nighttime lighting effects for period-styled layouts.
