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Identifier: authenticguideto01merc (find matches)
Title: Authentic guide to Chicago and the World's Columbian exposition
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Merchants' World's fair bureau of information company, Chicago. (from old catalog)
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: (The H. Sellschopp printing and publishing company)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ing ornamented with heavypilasters with Roman caps and bases and Roman arches.The building is surmounted by a glass dome 22 feet in diam-eter. Above the entrance arch is the figure of a giganticelk. The interior is finised in Georgia pine. The visitor next passes the buildings erected by the statesof Arizona, New Mexico and Idaho. The Utah Building comes next in order. It is twostories high and has an area of 46 by 82 feet. The founda-tion, columns, pilasters and cornices are made in imitationof the different kinds of stone in Utah. This buildingsimple in design but attractive in its effect is a noticeableState building. Facing the West Virginia Building on thewest are the structures erected by the State of Kentucky,Louisiana and Alabama. The Missouri Building is directly north of theAlabama Building. It is two stories high and covers anarea of 80 by 86 feet. In the front and over the mainentrance is an eliptical dome 70 feet high, flanked by smaller i8o AUTHENTIC GUIDE TO CHICAGO AND
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