1893 Print Chicago World's Fair Fisheries Building - ORIGINAL HISTORIC FAR1

Fisheries Building. This is an original 1894 halftone print showing the Fisheries Building, located on the north bank of the North Inlet and across the canal from the Government Building. Overall the building maintains Romanesque order architecture with semilunar colonnades connecting with duplicated polygonal buildings. It is estimated that this building cost $200,000 to construct. (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 many other cities, Chicago was