Album of views of the Fine Arts Building (now the Museum of Science & Industry), World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, Chicago, Illinois, United States

People:

Unknown (photographer)
Charles B. Atwood (architect)

Title:

Album of views of the Fine Arts Building (now the Museum of Science & Industry), World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, Chicago, Illinois, United States

Date:

between 1893 and 1894

Description:

- Binding consists of blue cloth-covered boards and spine. There is a silver gilt inscription on a grey paper label attached to the spine. Endpapers are of black paper. Title page is of white paper. Secondary supports are of black paper.

Form:
photographs

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver prints

Dimensions:

album (closed): 17.4 x 25.2 x 1.9 cm (6 7/8 x 9 15/16 x 3/4 in.) secondary supports (approx.): 16.8 x 24.6 cm (6 5/8 x 9 11/16 in.)

Reference number:

PH1993:0430:001-027

Point of View:

exterior views
interior views

Inscription:

stamped - embossed in typescript and silver gilt, on a grey paper label attached to the spine, c.: "WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION CHICAGO / 1893-1894" inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the title page, u.c.: "Chicago. World's Columbian Exposition, 1893-94. / [Views of the Fine Arts Buildings]* / 27 photographs."; l.l.: "*later, the Museum of Science & Industry"

Location:

Chicago; Illinois; United States;

Subject:

architecture

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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