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Chicago, Ill., Texas Building at World's Columbian Exposition"" – Antique Photo Print

Chicago, Ill., Texas Building at World's Columbian Exposition"", 1893 Sept. — antique lithograph
Chicago, Ill., Texas Building at World's Columbian Exposition"", 1893 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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Chicago, Ill., Texas Building at World's Columbian Exposition"" comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Chicago, Ill., Texas Building at World's Columbian Exposition""

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Texas built its own pavilion on the grounds of the 1893 fair, and this lithograph preserves the design as J. Riely Gordon, the San Antonio architect who drew it, presented it. The World's Columbian Exposition in Jackson Park marked the four hundredth anniversary of Columbus's voyage, and states and territories paid for their own buildings to display their resources and character. The print appeared in the *Inland Architect and News Record* in September 1893, while the fair was still open, so it shows how the building was introduced to architects and readers that season.

Created / published1893 Sept.
Medium1 print : lithograph.
NotesJ. Riely Gordon & Co., Archs., San Antonio, Texas. Illus. in: Inland Architect and News Record, v. 22, no. 2, Sept. 1893. 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 × 1,101 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-148457

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