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Title: The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: White, Trumbull, 1868-1941 Igleheart, William, (from old catalog) joint author
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: Philadelphia and St. Louis, P.W. Ziegler & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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e North Lagoon and the Wooded Island.These State buildings, which have been named and located sohastily, are of remarkable interest, a fact which Is more apt to berecognized by foreign visitors than by our own Americans. Theycontain exhibits of the resources of the States, club-rooms andretiring-rooms for the people of the States, and rooms for publiccomfort. In almost every instance their architecture is character-istic of the State which they represent. It is unquestionably truethat they will be the headquarters for places of meeting. Appoint-ments will be made by visitors from every State in the Union tomeet at a place such as this, where, by their personal Interest inthe structure and their acqualntanc: with the people in charge, theymay feel entitled to use the headquarters at their own freedom.Some of them are large and some small, but without exception allare worthy representatives of the States which erected them.After this hasty glance at the location a somewhat more definite
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498 STATE BUILDINGS. description of the more prominent of the State Buildings and olthe exhibits which they contain should be of interest. Not all of the St-^tes to which locations were assigned as alreadynamed took r.a/antage of the assignment to erect buildings. Insome instances, appropriations made by legislatures were too small,and in others it was thought wiser to expend the money in makingbetter displays within the main buildings of the Fair. Alabama,Georgia, Mississippi, N jvada, North Carolina, Oregon, South Caro-lina, Tennessee, Wyoming and four of the Territories are thosewhich erected no buildings. The Nebraska Building, which is the first one to be reached asthe visitor enters the Fifty-seventh street gate and turns to theleft, is built in the colonial style of architecture. It measures 60x100feet, and is covered with staff to represent stone. On each sideof the building is a large portico, with eight massive columns run-ning the full height of both floors, and supporting

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