Wonderful Chicago And The Worlds Fair Historical And Picturesque

Author : John Joseph Flinn
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330354964
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (549 download)

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Download or read book The Best Things to Be Seen at the World's Fair written by John Joseph Flinn and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Best Things to Be Seen at the World's Fair The Aim Of The Compiler has been to point out to the visitor the best things to be seen at the World's Columbian Exposition, and this includes everything that is remarkably beautiful, wonderful or curious. Hints are given here which, if followed, will assist the visitor in his efforts to see the greatest attractions of the fair without loss of time. It is presumed that many thousands of people will visit the fair who have at their command but a few hours or a few days. They cannot see everything. They will want to know where to find the things that are likely to be longest remembered and most talked of after the Exposition shall have passed away. One might spend a week in the great Manufactures building alone, and still come away without seeing many of the beautiful or the wonderful things displayed there. One might spend a month inside the Exposition and still discover that he had failed to see some of its greatest attractions. Midway Plaisance itself is so crowded with exhibits of an amazing, interesting and pleasing character, that some of them must necessarily be passed over by the visitor. In order that in hurrying through the Exposition and Midway Plaisance the visitor may not miss the very things it is most important that he should see, the hints in this book are given, and this is the excuse for its publication. I desire to give credit and thanks to The Chicago Graphic for the use of the originals of many of the sculptural sketches used in this work. The Graphic has done as much as any other American publication toward presenting to the public the unparalleled artistic features of the Fair. And I am equally indebted to the reporters of Chicago newspapers for valuable information and much matter of a discriptive character. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.