Caption
Electricity Building and south west pavilion of Manufactures Building.- Chicago day, View of the electricity building and the pond with boats during the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, page, photomechanical print, number: 'Plate 32', photographer: Charles Dudley Arnold, Chicago, photographer: HD Higinbotham, clichémaker: anonymous, 1893, Charles Dudley Arnold, HD Higinbotham, photographer, clichémaker, 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 waterfront scene showing a large classical building complex with arched windows, domed towers, ornate columns, and decorative carvings, a tall column topped by a statue rising near the center, a broad archway entrance with sculpted relief above it to the right, flagpoles with flags flying atop parts of the buildings, a crowded promenade with many people along a balustrade, several small boats and gondolas with passengers and rowers on the water in the foreground, and rippling water extending across the bottom of the image.
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Photo12/Liszt Collection
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LZT26B01_389
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