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Picturesque world's fair : an elaborate collection of colored views : comprising illustrations of the greatest features of the Word's Columbian Exposition and Midway Plaisance : architectural, artistic, historical, scenic and ethnological : the magnificent water and landscape effects and charming vistas made realistic by the authentic reproduction in all of the colors of nature and art / under the direction of the celebrated landscape artist, John R. Key ; from photographs made by authority of the director-general, for the United States government, and by special artists employed expressly for this work ; each view accompanied by a graphic and accurate description.

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Format:
Book
Conference/Event
Contributor:
Davis, George R. (George Royal), 1840-1899, contributor.
Key, John Ross, 1832-1920, illustrator.
Conference Name:
World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) http://viaf.org/viaf/140256887, host institution.
Series:
Smithsonian collections online : world's fairs and expositions : visions of tomorrow.
Fine art series ; v. 1, no. 1-16.
Fine art series ; v. 1, no. 1-16
Smithsonian collections online : world's fairs and expositions : visions of tomorrow
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)--Pictorial works.
World's Columbian Exposition.
Genre:
Illustrated works.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (256 pages, 32 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations.
Place of Publication:
Chicago : W.B. Conkey Company, [1894]
System Details:
text file
Notes:
Issued in weekly numbers: volume 1, no. 1 (Feb. 10, 1894)-vol. 1, no. 16 (May 26, 1894). Each number includes contents page and added, engraved title page.
"Published with the endorsement and approval of George R. Davis, Director-General of the World's Columbian Exposition."
Pagination irregular: page 12 numbered 57, 25 numbered 40.
Chiefly illustrations.
Reproduction of the original from the Smithsonian Libraries.
Local Notes:
Scanned copy imperfect: dark or blotted print.
OCLC:
904660865
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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