1893 Print Chicago World's Fair Agricultural Building Interior HISTORIC FAR1

Transept of Agricultural Building. This is an original 1894 halftone print showing the interior of the Agricultural Building. This display shows the endless variety of natural resources from different countries. Coffees of Arabia, Brazil, and Mexico, the teas of China, Japan, and India, the spices of Malay Peninsula, the wines of Portugal, France, and Spain, the fruits of Greece and the West Indian Islands. (Please note that, typical of halftone prints, there is printing on the reverse.) Period Paper has obtained a wonderful set of halftone images of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, also known as the World Columbian Exposition. This collection of the fair's many architectural, artistic, mechanical, agricultural, industrial, archeological, ethnological, historical, and scenic attractions was published in 1894. 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 man