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Stanley Appelbaum
Peter B. Hales
Our Price$50.00
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 1606600060
Page Count: 176
Dimensions: 12 x 9
The World's Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago in 1893, combined nostalgia for the United States' European roots with a celebration of the nation's emergence as a world power. A splendid tribute to the exposition's "White City" of shining Beaux-Arts buildings, this volume offers a grand photographic record, printed in duotone in a sweeping landscape format. Essays and captions by a noted historian offer a guided tour of this prelude to 20th-century America's artistic and industrial might. 128 photographs.
A special Calla Editions™ created from the 1980 Dover Original publication The Chicago World's Fair of 1893: A Photographic Record.

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