11-15-201511-15-2015
Skinner Auctions
Skinner AuctionsBoston MA
2865BBoston
November 15, 2015 11:00 AMCalender
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World's Columbian Exhibition, Chicago World Fair, and Other World Fairs, Ephemera Lot.

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$215$175
Auction: Books & Manuscripts - 2865BLocation: BostonDate / Time: November 15, 2015 11:00AM

Description:

World's Columbian Exhibition, Chicago World Fair, and Other World Fairs, Ephemera Lot.
Including thirty-four mounted cyanotypes; and twenty-four albumen prints, all mounted on card; twenty-eight full-color facsimile watercolor prints mounted on mat board from The Book of the Fair; twenty-three color lithographs published to accompany The Book of the Builders, 1894; official guides to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904, in St. Louis and the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, held in Philadelphia; five other small pieces of fair-related paper; approximately six issues, eight pages each, of The Book of the Builders; and twenty-five issues of Hubert's The Book of the Fair, Chicago & San Francisco: Bancroft Co., 1893.
Estimate $400-600


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Keywords

Chicago, Philadelphia, St. Louis