The Illinois Building and exhibits therein at the World's Columbian Exposition 1893.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Illinois. Board of World's Fair Commissioners.

Contributor:

World's Fairs and Expositions Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

World's Columbian Exposition.

Exhibitions.

Illinois--Exhibitions.

Illinois.

Exhibitions--Illinois--Chicago--Pictorial works.

Illinois--Chicago.

Genre:

Pictorial works.

Conference papers and proceedings.

Exhibition catalogs.

Illustrated works.

Penn Provenance:

Zinman, Michael (donor)

Funk, Lafayette (autograph)

McDarell, M.K.(?) (inscription)

Physical Description:

152 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Illinois State Building 1893

Place of Publication:

Chicago : John Morris Company, [1893]

Contents:

Bureau of Information.

Relief map of the State of Illinois.

Agriculture. Farm culture ; Railroad and Warehouse Commission, Department of Grain Inspection ; Horticulture and floriculture.

Department of Natural History and Archaeology. State Laboratory of Natural History ; Equipment of entomologists' office and insectary ; Ornithological exhibit ; Ichthyological exhibit ; State Fish Commission exhibit ; Department of Forestry ; Geological Department ; Floor cases, contain the following exhibit ; Glacial geology of Illinois ; Archaeology: relics of the Stone Age ; The clay exhibit.

Educational exhibit. University of Illinois ; Illinois State Normal University ; Southern Illinois State Normal University ; The exhibit ; Public free schools ; City of Chicago ; The model school-room.

State charitable institutions. Care of unfortunates ; The insane ; The blind ; Northern Hospital for the Insane, at Elgin ; The Eastern Hospital for the Insane, at Kankakee ; Central Hospital for Insane, Jacksonville ; Southern Hospital for the Insane, at Anna ; The Deaf and Dumb, Jacksonville ; Institution for the Education of the Blind, Jacksonville ; The Institution for the Feeble Minded ; Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, Quincy ; The Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans' Home, at Normal ; Eye and Ear Infirmary, Chicago ; Headquarters for the Soldiers and Sailors of Illinois.

Memorial Hall.

Penitentiaries. Southern Illinois Penitentiary ; Insane criminals ; The State Reformatory.

Seats of government.

The Illinois Woman's Exposition Board.

Notes:

"This volume has been prepared by order of the Illinois Board of World's Fair Commissioners ..."--p. [9].

Local Notes:

RBC copy has an illegible ms. inscription "to M. K. McDarell(?)", and the ms. autograph, in ink, of the President of the Illinois Board of World's Fair Commissioners that reads, "Compliments La-fayette Funk".

Cited in:

Dybwad & Bliss. Annotated bibliography, 1844

OCLC:

8540545