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Identifier: worldscolumbiane02whit (find matches)
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
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tire length of the eastgallery are assembled mineral materials of the industries, separatedaccording to groups of the classification and along lines of affinity.From Group 48 to Group 42 one passes through a continual trans-formation scene ; the sulphurs, pigments and chemical salts at theone end giving place to the black pitches of the asphalt of Trini-dad, succeeded by exhibits of graphite in leads, crucibles and clays, MINES. 259 and the whole series of abrasives from grindstones to ladies rouge,building and ornamental stone, coals, cokes and mineral combus-tibles. This material is shown and arranged with all the skill andinterest of competing firms and individual effort. In building stone and coal a departure is to be noted. A cubeexhibit of the products of the quarries has been presented by themanagement of the Mining Department itself, and in the place ofhuge blocks of coal from one or two mines, specimens of uniformsize ha.ve been solicited from every coal miner in the country.
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VIEW ON WEST SIDE. These dressed specimens have been placed upon aluminum mounts,giving the analysis, locality and other valuable information, while alarge plate glass map upon the floor in the midst of the collectionshows the distribution of the coal areas, and, by numbered crossreference, the source of the specimens. An operating departmental laboratory, a mecharical testinglaboratory, and a chemical assay exhibit are open to the inspectionof the public at the southwest corner. A mining library, filled withbooks rare and ancient, as well as modern, is at the disposal ofthe public, and a reading-room is provided where they may sit and 26o MINES. pursue the information of the past and present on matters relatingto mining and metallurgy. Near at hand the Mining Engineershave their headquarters. In the metallurgical division complete collections In each metalbring out the metallurgy from the ore up to the finished product.In the mineraloglcal division many large dealers, as well as priv

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