Identifier: randmcnallycosha02chic (find matches)
Title: Rand, McNally & co.'s handy guide to Chicago, and World's Columbian exposition ... What to see and how to see it
Year: 1892 (1890s)
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Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: Chicago and New York, Rand, McNally & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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feet 3 inches; fromwater line to top of main deck, 12 feet; from water line to top ofmilitary mast, 76 feet. Designer, Frank W. Grogan; cost,!f;ioo,ooo. The Government naval exhibit will be made in the battle-ship.The ship will be manned by a crew detailed by the Government,and the discipline and life on a man-of-war will be shown. Onthe berth-deck will be shown the various appliances that make upa man-of-war outfit, including samples of clothing, provisions,and other supplies of the sailors. The boat will have a full batteryof guns of the size and caUber of the actual ship. The guns willbe made of wood, and covered in imitation of steel. All the uni-forms of our sailors, from 1775 to 1848, will be shown by janitorsdressed in the costumes. Crossing the lagoon and turning west, the visitor passes thebuilding for Fish and Fisheries—dimensions, 165 by 365 feet.The annexes, connected with the main building by arcades, arecircular in form, and 135 feet in diameter. Total cost, $225,000.
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O <D ■t!^siu.Mm (190) WORLDS COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION. 191 Total floor area, 3.1 acres. Architect, Henry Ives Cobb, of Chi-cago. Material—2,000,000 feet of lumber, 600,000 pounds ofstructural iron. The building- is considered by many the handsomest on thegrounds. In the main building will be the general fisheries exhibitIn the west annex is the angling exhibit, and in the east is theaquaria. The glass fronts of the aquaria are 575 feet in length,and have 3,000 square feet of surface. The water capacity of theaquaria is 140,000 gallons. Salt-water fish will be shown in tanksof 40,000 gallons. The salt water is brought from the AtlanticOcean, being condensed for shipment to one-fifth its bulk, andthen restored at the tanks with fresh water. The visitor is now on the southern boundary of the territoryassigned to State and foreign buildings. Foreign Buildings.—Nearly all the great nations of theearth will erect special buildings on the grounds. Many ofthem will be reproductions of wo

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