Caption

View of the agricultural building, designed by Charles McKim at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, Agricultural Building.- Chicago day, page, photomechanical print, number: 'Plate 18', photographer: Charles Dudley Arnold, Chicago, photographer: HD Higinbotham, cliché maker: anonymous, 1893, Charles Dudley Arnold, HD Higinbotham, photographer, cliché maker, North America, Illinois, paper, collotype, photoprint, height 133 mm x width 190 mm, rowing-boat, canoe, pond, pool, world fair, world exhibition, World's Columbian Exposition, A wide waterfront scene shows a large classical building with a domed central section and a long colonnaded facade adorned with sculptures and statues along its roofline, many flags flying from poles above the roof, and arched windows and decorative cornices; in front of the building a crowd lines a raised promenade and boats are on the water, including a foreground motor launch with a striped canopy carrying several seated and standing passengers and flags at its stern, with rippling water reflecting the vessels.

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Photo12/Liszt Collection

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LZT26B01_375

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40.4Mb (8.5Mb) / 14.4in x 10.9in / 4330 x 3260 (300dpi)

Keywords

View agricultural building designed Charles McKim World's Columbian Exposition Chicago 1893 Agricultural Building.- Chicago day page photomechanical print number Plate 18 photographer Charles Dudley Arnold HD Higinbotham cliché maker anonymous North America Illinois paper collotype photoprint height 133 mm x width 190 mm rowing-boat canoe pond pool world fair world exhibition wide waterfront scene large classical building domed central section long colonnaded facade adorned sculptures statues roofline flags flying poles roof arched windows decorative cornices front building crowd lines raised promenade boats water foreground motor launch striped canopy carrying several seated standing passengers flags stern rippling water reflecting vessels