Title & Author:

Grand illusions : Chicago's World's Fair of 1893 / Neil Harris, Wim de Wit, James GIlbert, and Robert W. Rydell.

Publication:

[Chicago] : Chicago Historical Society, 1993.

Description:

xvi, 176 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 22 x 26 cm

Notes:
"Exhibition ... was on view at the Chicago Historical Society from May 1, 1993 to July 17, 1994"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Memory and the White City / Neil Harris -- Building an illusion : the design of the World's Columbian Exposition / Wim de Wit -- Fixing the image : photography at the World's Columbian Exposition / James Gilbert -- A Cultural Frankenstein? : the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 / Robert W. Rydell.

ISBN:

0913820180 (paperback)
9780913820186 (paperback)

Subject:

World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) History.
World's Columbian Exposition
World's Columbian Exposition (1893 Chicago, Ill.) History

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition publications.
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
History
Illustrated works.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Harris, Neil, 1938- contributor.
Wit, Wim de, contributor.
Gilbert, James, 1939- contributor.
Rydell, Robert W., contributor.
Chicago Historical Society, issuing body.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 87274
Call No.: T500 (ID:93-B2067)
Status: Available