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Title: Authentic guide to Chicago and the World's Columbian exposition
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Merchants' World's fair bureau of information company, Chicago. (from old catalog)
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: (The H. Sellschopp printing and publishing company)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ging and masonry. Hoisting and delivering at the surface, rock, ore orminers; pumping and draining by engines, buckets or byadits. Ventilating and Lighting. GROUP 68. Originals or Reproductions of Early and Notable Imple-ments and Apparatus used in mining and Metallurgy. East of the Mines and Mining Building is the Electri-cal Building, the seat of perhaps the most novel and bril-liant exhibit in the whole exposition, is 345 feet wide and 700feet long, the major axes running north and south. The southfront is on the great quadrangle or court; the north frontfaces the lagoon; the east front is opposite the Manufacturesbuilding, and the west faces the Mines Building. The general scheme of the plan is based upon a longitu-dinal nave 115 wide and 114 feet high, crossed in the middleby a transept of the same width and height. The nave andthe transept have a pitched roof, with a range of sky-lightsat the bottom of the pitch, and clear story windows. The 46 120 AUTHENTIC GUIDE TO CHICAGO AND
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WORLD S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION. 121 rest of the building is covered with a flat roof averaging 62feet in night, and provided with sky-lights. The second story is composed of galleries connectedacross the nave by two bridges, with access by four grandstaircases. The area of the galleries in the second story is118,546 square feet or 2.7 acres. The exterior walls of this building are composed of a con-tinuous Corinthian order of pilasters, 3 feet 6 inches wide and42 feet high, supporting a full entablature, and resting upona stylabate 8 feet 6 inches. The total height of the walls fromthe grade out side is 63 feet 6 inches. At each of the four corners of the building there is a pav-ilion, above which rises a light open spire or tower 169 feethigh. Intermediate between these corner pavilions and thecentral pavilions on the east and west sides, there is a subord-inate pavilion bearing a low square dome upon its lantern. The Electricity Building has an open portico extendingalong the whole so

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