1893 Chicago Worlds Fair Electricity Bldg. Ben Franklin ORIGINAL HISTORIC FAI4

"Hemicycle of the Electricity Building." This is an original 1893 halftone print of the front of the Electricity Building at the 1893 Chicago's Worlds Fair. The statue of Benjamin Franklin, by the Danish sculptor Carl Rohl-Smith, is in the Hemicycle of the Electricity Building. (Please note that, typical of halftone prints, there is printing on the reverse.) Period Paper has obtained a wonderful set of halftone prints of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, also known as the World Columbian Exposition. This original collection of the fair's many architectural, artistic, mechanical, agricultural, industrial, archeological, ethnological, historical, and scenic attractions was printed in 1893. The World Columbian Exposition was held from May to October 1893 in Chicago in honor of the 400th anniversary of Columbus' discovery of the new world. In competition with many other cities, Chicago was finally designated the official site and the Exposition was built on 630 acres in and around Jacks