The Buildings of the World's Columbian Exposition

Publisher Brentano's American

Printer New York Photogravure Company American

1892

Not on view

A large flat souvenir publication with cardboard covers, and a cloth spine bound with tape. The cover decorated with printed imagery that includes an image of Columbus discovering America, and the dates 1492 and 1892 within panels of ornament. It contains four pages of text and ten photogravures reproducing watercolor drawings of the primary buildings at the exposition.

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Title: The Buildings of the World's Columbian Exposition
Publisher: Brentano's (New York)
Printer: New York Photogravure Company
Date: 1892
Medium: Illustrations: photogravure
Dimensions: 10 1/4 × 13 7/16 × 3/8 in. (26 × 34.2 × 1 cm)
Classification: Books
Credit Line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1969
Object Number: 69.558.235
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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