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Title: Authentic guide to Chicago and the World's Columbian exposition
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Merchants' World's fair bureau of information company, Chicago. (from old catalog)
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: (The H. Sellschopp printing and publishing company)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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by the pro-
prietors of Puck, the comic newspaper, published in New
York. In this building is exhibited a gallery of those cele-
brated cartoons which have made the paper famous. Cur-
rent issues of the paper are printed on the grounds.
Directly west of the Horticultural Building and side by
side are the Green Houses and the Official Photograph-
ers Studio. Southward, and in close proximity to the lat-
ter is the Choral Building, a beautiful structure and the Office
of The Grounds and Buildings. Leaving the Choral
Building and crossing the lagoon on to the Wooded Island
the visitor can visit the Hunters Camp, at the southern end
of the island. Traversing the entire length of the island he
arrives at the building errected by
JAPAN—The chief exhibit of Japan is the reproduction
of the ancient Phoenix Temple of Nji. In shape the building
represents a Phoenix. The centre forms the body of the bird,
the rear corridor the tail and the two collonades at the sides

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WOMEN'S BUILDING

WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION. 199

the wings. It is built of wood and carved in the curious
style of the Japanese. The interior is decorated with panels
inlaid with the mother-of-pearl. The doors, walls and altars
are gorgeously ornamented. Proceeding eastward and crossing
the lagoon the visitor now finds himself at the Fisheries
Building. The Fisheries Building embraces a large central struc-
ture with two smaller polygonal buildings, connected with
it on either end by arcades. The extreme length of the
building is 1,100 feet and the width 200 feet. It is located to
the northward of the United States Government Building.
In the central portion is the general fisheries exhibit.
In one of the polygonal buildings is the Angling exhibit and
in the other, the aquaria. The exterior of the building is
Spanish Bomansque, which contrasts agreeably in appear-
ance with that of the other buildings.
To the close observer the exterior of the building cannot
fail to be exceedingly interesting, for the architect, Henry
Ives Cobb, exerted all his ingenuity in arranging innumer-
able forms of capitals, modillions, brackets, cornices, and
other ornamental details, using only fish and other sea
forms for his motive of design. The roof of the building is of
old Spanish tile, and the side walls of pleasing color. The
cost is about $200,000.

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