Caption
The Columbian Fountain, View of the Columbian Fountain by Frederick William MacMonnies at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, page, photomechanical print, number: 'Plate 24', 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 191 mm, ornamental fountain, world fair, world exhibition, World's Columbian Exposition, A wide plaza with a large ornate fountain in the foreground featuring multiple sculpted figures and tiered curved steps leading into water, a number of people walking and standing along the plaza and near the fountain, decorative lamp posts and balustrades lining the walkways, a tall column and other sculpted monuments rising behind the fountain, an elaborate classical building with columns, arches, statues, and a domed and towered central structure occupying the middle background, a long building with a colonnaded facade and a pitched roof extending across the right side, and a variety of small architectural pavilions and ornamental details scattered throughout the scene.
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Photo12/Liszt Collection
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LZT26B01_382
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