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Chicago, Ill., Accepted design for the Texas State Building at the World's Columbian Exposition"" – Historic Photo Reproduction

Chicago, Ill., Accepted design for the Texas State Building at the World's Columbian Exposition"", 1892 Sept. — antique lithograph
Chicago, Ill., Accepted design for the Texas State Building at the World's Columbian Exposition"", 1892 Sept.. Antique lithograph from the Chicago collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Here is the accepted design for the Texas State Building at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, dated September 1892, shown as a lithograph by J. Riely Gordon & Co., architects of San Antonio. The drawing was published that month in the *Inland Architect and News Record*, a trade journal that followed the fair's building plans. The exposition, held in 1893 to mark the 400th anniversary of Columbus's voyage, invited states to put up their own pavilions in Jackson Park, so a design like this one carried civic pride as well as architectural ambition. It is a useful glimpse of how a Texas firm reached a national showcase.

Created / published1892 Sept.
Medium1 print : lithograph.
NotesJ. Riely Gordon & Co., Archs., San Antonio, Texas. Illus. in: Inland Architect and News Record, v.22, no. 2, Sept. 1892. No ref. copies. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Exhibitions; Architecture; Arch. Index.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,085 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-148456

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