Wilde - Chicago Weltausstellung [Chicago World's Fair] (1893)

Wilde, Otto und Albert Ganzlin. Chicago Weltausstellung 1893. Berlin: Bendig and Krakau, 1893.

(260 x 165 mm) Title page + 32 loose, numbered pages with images from the Chicago World’s Fair in black and white or sepia. Complete. Housed in publisher’s cloth folder with scene from Chicago and ornamentation  as well as title and date in gilt. Image leaves in very good condition, folder shows some wear and has been strengthened at hinges with silk tape.

The plates show photographs of the opening ceremony and views of the exhibition palaces, including their size and height, as well as construction costs. The Government Palace, the Administration Palace, the Commerce Hall, the Machine Hall, the Horticultural Palace with Lagoons, the German House, the Fisheries Palace, the Electricity Palace, the Swedish House, the Agriculture Palace, the Women's Palace, the Palace of Transportation, the Mines Palace, the Palace of Fine Arts, the Swedish House, the Warship, as well as Lincoln Park, Niagara Falls, and captured Native Americans before their execution on August 9, 1890, at the Battle of Wounded Knee.