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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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ls, one represents tapestry work,one wood and stone work, one ceramic work, and one metal work.Over the south door is a painting representing the cave-dwellers;over the north, one typifying the triumphs of liberty ; over the east,a birds-eye view of Chicago in 1893 ; and over the west, Chicago in1492. Outside the building, over the east and west entrances, are UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT. 461 two pieces of statuary called the Liberty Groups, by A. Waagen,and huge bronze eagles surmount the pediments of all the entrances.While it is true that the architectural beauty of this structure winslitde favor, and is thought by some to be a minus quantity, yet it can-not be denied that it is thoroughly well adapted to the purposes forwhich it is intended. And it is also true that if a vote were takenby all visitors as to which building of the Fair contains the mostinteresting exhibits, this one would not fall far behind in the contest.Every great department of the United States Government has here
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U. S. ARMY HOSPITAI,. objects of immense interest to all, and there is little that is notworthy of attention. The War Department occupies the southeastcorner of the building, and its exhibits are classified in sections as fol-lows: Signal Bureau ; engineer section ; ordnance section ; gun-mak-ing machines; cartridge and stock-making machines, and relics ofInterest. Here Is one of the most interesting displays ever gatheredof weapons of every kind. Our big guns, such as the new breech-loading mortars and huge rifled cannon, 33 1-2 feet in length,attract great crowds. They do not compare with the big Kruppgun, though they excel In rapid firing, the largest being loaded andfired every two minutes. One of the mortars Is ten feet In length 462 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT. and has a twelve-inch bore. Its projectile weighs 630 pounds, andits range is seven miles. The largest of the cannon weighs 116,000pounds, and requires a charge of 460 pounds of powder to fire its1000-pound projectile. Its e

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