1893 Chicago Worlds Fair Womans Building Sophia Hayden ORIGINAL HISTORIC FAIR3

The Woman's Building. This is an original 1893 halftone print of the Woman's Building at the 1893 Chicago Worlds Fair. Congress authorized a "Board of Lady Managers" and gave them a Woman's Building. The erection of this structure was entrusted to Miss Sophia Hayden, architect, of Boston. It was built in the Italian Renaissance style. Dimensions of the Woman's Building were one hundred and ninety-nine by three hundred and eighty-eight feet, sixty feet or two stories high. The cost was $138,000. (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