1893 Chicago World's Fair Missouri Building Gunn Curtis ORIGINAL HISTORIC FAIR3

The Missouri Building. This is an original 1893 halftone print of the Missouri Building at the 1893 Chicago Worlds Fair. The architects were Gunn & Curtis, of Kansas City. The material was donated by Missouri manufacturers, and the women of the State produced the interior decorations. The cost was $45,000, and the area eight-six feet square; the dome was seventy feet high. (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 were 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, Chicag