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[Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago], [1893] — historic photograph
[Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago], [1893]. Historic photograph 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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A window into the past: [Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago], preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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The Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building was the largest structure at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, covering roughly 32 acres of the fairgrounds in Jackson Park. Designed by architect George B. Post, it housed exhibits spanning industry, machinery, and the arts, and its enormous Beaux-Arts facade with its classical colonnades and arched entrances helped set the tone for the fair's "White City" look. Photographs like this one record the scale that impressed fairgoers, many of whom had never seen a building so vast. The fair's planners, led by Daniel Burnham, aimed for order and monumentality, and this view captures the grandeur they intended.

Created / published[1893]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1890-1900.
SubjectsWorld's Columbian Exposition--(1893 :--Chicago, Ill.)--Buildings. Exhibition buildings--Illinois--Chicago--1890-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,273 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-183801

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