1893 Chicago Worlds Fair Woman's Building Jackson Park ORIGINAL HISTORIC FAI4 XGFA7 Grover Alexander

Grover Alexander

Henry David Thoreau

This is an original 1892 black and white in-text wood engraving of the "Mac-Iver Peak" of Africa

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1893 Chicago Worlds Fair Woman's Building Jackson Park ORIGINAL HISTORIC FAI4 XGFA7 Grover Alexander"The Woman's Building." This is an original 1893 halftone print of the Woman's Building at the 1893 Chicago's Worlds Fair. Congress authorized a "Board of Lady Managers" and gave them a Woman's Building. The erection of this structure was entrusted to Miss Sophia Hayden, architect, of Boston. It was built in the Italian Renaissance style. Dimensions of the Woman's Building were one hundred and ninety nine by three hundred and eighty eight feet, sixty