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  Title

  Grand illusions : Chicago's World's Fair of 1893

  Author

  Harris, Neil, 1938-  

  Publisher:

  Chicago Historical Society,

  Pub date:

  1993.

  Pages:

  xvi, 176 p. :

  ISBN:

  0913820180

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    Type/Location	Call Number	Copies	Format
    Adult: Non-fiction	977.311 GRA	1	Book

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  Title:

  Grand illusions : Chicago's World's Fair of 1893 / Neil Harris ... [et al.].

  Publication info:

  [Chicago] : Chicago Historical Society, 1993.

  Physical description:

  xvi, 176 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 22 x 26 cm.

  General Note:

  "Exhibition ... was on view at the Chicago Historical Society from May 1, 1993 to July 17, 1994"--T.p. verso.

  Contents:

  Memory and the White City / Neil Harris -- Building an illusion : the design of the World's Columbian Exposition / Wim de Wit -- Fixing the image : photography at the World's Columbian Exposition / James Gilbert -- A Cultural Frankenstein? : the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 / Robert W. Rydell.

  Conference Subject:

  World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)--History--Exhibitions.

  Added author:

  Harris, Neil, 1938-

  Added author:

  Chicago Historical Society.

  key:

  ocm28056146

  ISBN:

  0913820180