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    612-822-4611

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The artistic guide to Chicago and the World's Columbian Exposition, illustrated

The artistic guide to Chicago and the World's Columbian Exposition, illustrated

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ISBN10: 9353706580
ISBN13: 9789353706586
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Jun 1 2019
Pages: 430
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.96 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Chicago lit up the globe. In 1893, the World's Columbian Exposition turned a fast-growing city into an international stage of art, engineering, and ambition. The artistic guide to Chicago and the World's Columbian Exposition, illustrated is an illustrated travel guide and historical guidebook in one: a Victorian city guidebook that pairs practical orientation with the visual pleasure of a Victorian souvenir book. Expect a richly textured sense of place, from an on-the-ground Chicago architecture tour of streets, parks, and landmarks to clear direction through the worlds fair exhibits, supported by exposition grounds maps that help you picture how the great fair was laid out and experienced. Read it as a Chicago history reference, or browse it as you would a cabinet of curiosities from Gilded Age Chicago, where the modern city was being designed in public view. Its significance is twofold: it captures a defining moment in the Chicago 1893 exposition, and it preserves the period voice of how Americans wanted their city and their fair to be seen. For worlds fair collectors, it is a tactile bridge to worlds fair memorabilia and the collecting culture that grew around it; for casual readers, it is an inviting, image-led route into a turning point in urban and cultural history. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint -- a collector's item and a cultural treasure.

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