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

Nave of Agricultural Building. This is an original 1894 halftone print showing the interior of the Agricultural Building. This building had a vast amount of floor space, about 600,000 square feet where all the states and territories of the Union were represented by their soil products and tillage devices. The products shown included bread, biscuit, starch, gluten, sugars, syrups, confectionery, preserved meats and food preparations, tea, coffee, spices, animal and vegetable fibers, pure and chemical waters, wines, cider, liquors, malt beverages, tobacco, and cigars. (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 Colu