<^' .^^ ^P-^^ '^^ rO^ y V ■^cy A ^. 'o , » » G^ A .>^"-. .G^ ^' o A ■^o ^"^4-. 'Is^^- b V ^--0^ ov-.. '.gm^^^; .-^o^ ^-^^^MW ^^^ ^^P- rS -3 ^.-s ^-^^ .-' » ^c^:^.^'" . o ^0^'b• . ' ^0^ O. "^ . . 5* .A. <* o I i. » I ■/ PLANS AND DIAGRAM /■:X/ IIBIT liiJJI -nTNf::-; I \ I III. Columhinn F^x position l'H(*M s//(;u/Ac. in,-. ! CliNT^. CI I ^o ¥ % I n igtiggmmeem IN W.B.GoNKEYConrs ^x PLANS SDIAGRA/nS OP ALL E^niBIT BUILDINGS / IN THE WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION COMPILED ERO/n THE OrriCIAL CATALOGUES SHOWING TME LOCATION Or EXhlBlTS. ! EDITED BY THE DEPART/nENT OE PUBLICITY AND PRO/nOTlON. A. P. Handy. Chief. CHICAGO: /q ^ , ^ ^ W. B. CONKEY CO/nPANY. Publishers to the World's Columbian Exposition. 1593- Entered according to Act of Congress in the year A. D. 1893, in the office of Librarian of Congress at Washington, D. C, by THE WORLD'S Columbian Exposition, For the exclusive use of W. B. Conkey Company, Chicago. W, B. CONKEY COMPANY, Printers and Binders CHICAGO. INDBX. Agricultural Building: T^^ . . , PAGE. iJescnption or Diagrams of '"o'q'a'k a Art Palace: 2,3,4,-5,6 Description of Diagrams of ^; Electricity Building: " Description of Diagrams of ;.....'.'.'. 04 or Fish and Fisheries Building: ' Description of Diagrams of *.".'........! 1814 r Forestry Building: o, 14, i.> Description of Diagram of Horticulture Building: Description of Diagrams of Krupp's Pavilion: ' Description of Diagram of 25 26 5HOE Trades Building: Description of OT Diagram of ' ° qp Live Stock Pavilion and Barns: Description of Diagram of " -Machinery Hall: ^^ Description of Diagram of ^^ Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building: ^^' '^^ Description of Diagrams of ^ Liberal Arts Portion: Description of. '.V *.'.'. ' ^^' ^^' oq Diagrams of ' ^^ Mines and Mining Building:' 40,41,42 Description of Diagrams of "^^ Transportation Building: " ^^' ■^^ Description of Diagrams of ^'^ United States Government BuiLDiNG: ^^' ^^ Description of Diagrams of j- ^^ Woman's Building: ' 50, 51, 52 Description of Diagrams of . . *^ 47,48 .1) >5 ^5t,' ^i#k,;.,.,.. ji HIm \ wmi'^^i -^ ~^^ ^pii fSif!! ^Hi ^^'1 ."SE ] piN'''''''''*'i*tif 1 ■^j-oAJ^^ ll E^-i.- ^i«Bti'H *"^^^Sffi Si«i*»2i-i^|j ■rll flBii '^ jp^^H "^s ^^^ M M fl? ^ |fe#| ■ ISlbi ,^>^': f-^' ."C^^t* i i^yr-''^'^^:f AGRICULTURE ■:■ BUILDING. The style of architecture is classic renaissance. The building is situated near the shore of Lake Michigan, and is almost surrounded by the lagoons that lead into the Park from the lake. The building is 500x800 feet, its longest dimensions being east and west. For a single story building the design is bold and heroic. The general cornice line is 65 feet above grade. On either side of the main entrance are mammoth Corinthian pillars, 60 feet high and 5 feet in diameter. On each corner and from the center of the building pavilions are reared, the center one being 144 feet square. The corner pavilions are connected by curtains, forming a continuous arcade around the top of the building. The main entrance leads through an opening 64 feet wide into a vestibule, from which entrance is had to the rotunda, 100 feet in diameter. This is surmounted by a mammoth glass dome 130 feet high. All through the main vestibule statuary has been designed, illustrative of the agri- cultural industry. Similar designs are grouped about all of the grand entrances in the most elaborate manner. The corner pavilions are surmounted by domes 96 feet high, and above these tower groups of statuary. Architects, McKim, Mead & White, of New York. Agriculture, and its kindred interests of forestry, dairy and live stock, has exhibition space.under roof, of 69 acres, the buildings costing $1,218,000. To the southward of the Agricultural Building is a spacious structure devoted chiefly to a live stock and agricult- ural assembly hall. This building is conveniently near one of the stations of the elevated railway. On the first floor, near the main entrance of the building, is located a bureau of information. This floor also contains suitable committee and other rooms for the different live stock associations. Broad stairways lead from the first floor into the assembly room, which has a seating capacity of about 1,500. Forty acres are covered by the buildings for the stock exhibit. The pavilion is a great oblong building, having a show nng for animals and an amphitheatre for spectators. The pavilion is 280x440 feet in size. The stock sheds are built after the style of the Spanish or Mexican hacienda. The totalcost of the build- ings for live-stock is $335,000. The Dairy Building is regarded by agriculturists as one of the most useful and at- tractive features of the whole Exposition. It was designed to contain not only a complete exhibit of dairy products but also a dairy school, in connection with which will be con- ducted a series of tests for determining the relative merits of different breeds of dairy cattle as milk and butter producers. The building stands near the lake shore in the south- eastern part of the Park, and close by the general live stock exhibit. It covers approxi- mately half an acre, measunng 95x200 feet, is two stories high and cost $30,000. In design it is of quiet exterior. On the first floor, besides office headquarters, there is in front a large open space devoted to exhibits of butter, and farther back an operating room 25x100 feet, in which the model dairy will be conducted. On two sides of this room are amphi- theatre seats capable of accommodating 400 spectators. Under these seats are re- frigerators and cold storage rooms for the care of the dairy products. The operating room, which extends to the roof, has on three sides a gallery where the cheese exhibits are f)laced. The rest of the second story is devoted to a cafe, which opens on a balcony over- ooking the lake. In the dairy barn are luxuriously stabled the fancy cows participating in the milk, butter and cheese tests conducted during the Exposition. KEY TO INSTALLATION. For the purpose of installation of exhibits the building is divided, on the first floor, into five sections, "A" being in the northeast, "B" the northwest, "C"the southeast, " D " the southwest, and " E " in the west section. On the second or gallery floor are " F " in the northeast, " G " in the northwest, " H " in the southeast, and " I " in the southwest section. Beginning at the center of the building in each section, each column is lettered '^rom"A"down the alphabet, toward the outside of the building. Beginning with the jutside, and going toward the center of the building, the columns are numbered from " 1 " ip. The columns in each section are lettered and numbered separately; that is, for example, in each section column "1-A" can be found. The location of an exhibit is indicated by two letters and a figure. For instance, an exhibit located in "H-G-5," means that it is in section " H" where the lines of the columns "G" and "5" cross. By con- sulting the ground plan in the front of the catalogue the sections can be readily located, and the columns are plainly lettered and numbered. All the agricultural machinery is in Sec. "D." All exhibits of butter and cheese are in the Dairy Building, the butter on the first floor, and the cheese on the second floor. Exhibits of honey are on the gallery floor, in the east end of Agricultural Building. The ground plan shows the location by name of each of the States and foreign countries. Visitors can take the elevated railroad and land at the Colonnade, and go immediately to the second floor of the Agricultural Building. 9 H S 9 Hi «— -^ j^pf^n^^% 1^ pf^Pf^f^^iiiiifAi^.— ■ n H • • • •_ • • • z o F . 2s n X u 0) 111 i^ - 2 u| Q U < 2 I- K m 3 1 >■ S u 2 «■ =2 e -■ S Oh >• z «t Q. s o . O O is o m i w \/c e^ l^ - S5 yil f a W p. 1^ as C -J W r 5i U £ p I 1 1 I 1 ■ I • ■ 1 ■ 1 ■ / N 1 i 1 ■ ■ ■ ■ ^ ^ h Z 1 ■ • < ■ • \ i- 1 .4' : 6= a tt- \, I t =4= siowmi -i-^ I. l-.tt^ ■ HORTICULTURE BUILDING. Immediately south of the entrance to Jackson Park from Midway Plaisance, and facing east on the lagoon, is the Hofticulture Building. In front is a flower terrace for out- side exhibits, including tanks for Nymphjea and the Victoria Regia. The front of the terrace, with its low parapet between large vases, borders the water, and at its center forms a boat landing. The building is 1,000 feet long, with an extreme width of 250 feet. The plan is a central pavilion with two end pavilions, each connected with the central one by front and rear curtains, forming two interior courts, each 88x270 feet. These courts are planted with bearing orange trees, ornamental shrubs and flowers, and include basins for aqyatic plants and a German wine cellar. The center of the pavilion is roofed by a crystal dome 187 feet in diameter and 113 feet high, under which are exhibited the tallest palms, bamb(?os and tree ferns that can be procured. There are galleries in each of the pavilions. The galleries of the end pavilions are designed in part for cafes, the situation and the sur- roundings being particularly adapted to recreation and refreshment, the balance for the overflow of exhibits from the lower floors. These cafes are surrounded by an arcade on three sides, from which charming views of the grounds can be obtained. In this building are exhibited all the varieties of flowers, plants, vines, seeds, horticultural implements, wines, etc. Those exhibits requiring sunshine and light are shown in the front curtains, where the roof is entirely of glass. The rear curtains are designed for fruits and other exhibits that require only the ordinary amount of light. Provision is made to heat such parts as require it, and during the severest weather of the past winter the palms and tree- ferns under the great dome pushed out their broad leaves and fronds, and the century plants shot up their giant flower stalks in the temperature of the tropics. The exterior of the building is in "staff," tinted in cream. The cost of this building was about $300,000. W. L. B. Jenny, of Chicago, is the architect. KEY TO INSTALLATION. As shown by the floor plans of the Horticulture Building, the entire ground floor proper is laid off into sections extending from east to west, and indicated by a number plainly marked at regular intervals on the walls. The floor spaces are crossed from north to south, and lettered from A to Z in regular order, each space being in the form of a square. The numbers on the second or gallery floor are the same as on the first floor. The location of an exhibit will be readily found by referring to the letter and figure placed in juxtaposition, and following it in the catalogue entry, or after the name of a country or State, in the catalogue, and by referring to these in the floor plans. . .; J-- 1-^ 1 1 1 sE 1 :,; 1 M S"'" 8 ' ^ If h- — i H ^ S; jl 1 -- s r % ' ^ jfc ! ' ( 1_. jj y t; K E • i _c - .: M f^ fc t^.jr K 1 r P 1 jl~ M- . 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Soo X X = kl 7 1 It . £00 Live Stock Pavilion. (^The HE Live Stock Pavilion in which all animals are shown for award is located at the ( jj| rear of the Colonnade which connects Machinery Hall with the Agricultural Building and is reached by four grand entrances, one in the center of the Colonnade and one at either end. In addition to these there are a large number of entrances, making it easy of access from all sides. The extreme measurements of the building are 300x440 feet, covering an area of three acres. The general arrangement of the structure is the same as the Colosseum at Rome, the structure of the former being Romanesque and the latter purely classic, of the Doric order. There is very little ornament on this building save the balustrade which tops the cornice. The seating capacity is 10,000. Under the Amphitheatre are the offices of the Chief of the Department and Superin- tendents of Divisions, with the entire office force of the Department except the Veterinary Surgeon, whose office is in Dairy Barn No. 6. The Pavilion is elliptical in outline and covers an area of 280x450 feet. The total area of the arena embraces about 60,000 square feet and is paved with white cedar blocks covered with tanbark, affording good footing for the animals. The Live Stock Barns are located south of the Pavilion, covering, with the intervening driveways, twenty-seven acres of ground. Accommodations are provided for some 3,000 animals in stalls, averaging from four feet six inches to 10 feet in width. They are pro- vided with water, scales for weighing animals, etc. The sleeping accommodations for men in charge of stock are on the gallery floor of the barns above the stalls. Every precaution has been taken to insure proper ventilation and safety of the animals on 'exhibition. The cost of the Pavilion, barns and roadways is $220,000. The sum of $150,000 cash premiums has been appropriated by the Exposition Directory for awards. This has been largely supplemented by special offerings of the several States and of the Live Stock Associations. In addition, valuable aid has been accorded by a number of State Commissions, who pay the shipping charges, feed, etc., on stock from their several states. a M 00" o lO o ol QO fO VO «> FISH AND FISHERIES BUILDING. The Fisheries Building embraces a large central structure with two smaller polygonal buildings connected with it on either end by arcades. The extreme length of the building is 1,100 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 othet the aquaria. The exterior of the building is Span- ish-Romanesque. The exterior of the building can not fail to be exceedingly interesting, for the architect, Henry Ives Cobb, has arranged innumerable forms of capitals, modillions, brackets, cornices and other ornamental details, using only fish and other sea forms for his motif 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. In the center of the eastern polygonal build- ing is a rotunda 60 feet in diameter, in the middle of which is a basin or pool 26 feet wide, from which rises a towering mass of rocks, covered with moss and lichens. From clefts and crevices in the rocks crystal streams of water gush and drop to the masses of reeds, rushes and ornamental semi-aquatic plants in the basin below. In this pool gorgeous fishes disport. From the rotunda one side of the larger series of aquaria may be viewed; these are ten in number,' and, have a capacity of 7,000 to 27,000 gallons of water each. Passing out of the rotunda a great corridor or arcade is reached, where on one hand can be viewed the opposite side of the series of great tanks, and on the other a line of tanks somewhat smaller, ranging from 750 to 1,500 gallons each in capacity. The glass fronts of the aquaria are in length about 575 feet, and have 3,000 square feet of surface. The total water capacity of the aquaria, exclusive of reservoirs, is 140,000 gallons. Of this amount about 40,000 gallons are devoted to the marine exhibit. The supply of sea water was transported in iron oil tank cars from the Atlantic coast. In the main building is the general fisheries exhibit, consisting of boats, seines, etc., and all manner of preserved fish and fish products, and in the western pavilion is the angling exhibit. In the lagoon adjoining are shown many out-of-door exhibits connected with the fisheries, which could not well be shown in the building. KEY TO INSTALLATION. The design of the Fish and Fisheries Building differs widely from that of nearly all the other department buildings, the main building being rectangular in form and orna- mented with two wings known as polygonal buildings. The ground floor of the central building is laid off into spaces for exhibits, indicated by numbers and the cross sections lettered, which by tracing the lines from the letter to the number, as for instance, A-4 (as also shown in the catalogue) will be easily found. By referring to the name of the exhib- itor, or the name of the country or State as shown in the catalogue, and then looking on the diagram indicates the space occupied by the exhibit. ANGLING PAVILION Copyrighted 1893, BY THE WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION For the Exclusive Use of W. B. CONKEY COMPANY, Chicago. FISH AND FISHERIES BUILDING, WORLD'S Columbian Exposition. MINES AND MINING BUILDING. Mines and Mining Building is located at the southern extremity of the western lagoon or lake, and between the Electricity and Transportation buildings. This building is 700 feet long by 350 feet wide. Its architecture has its inspiration in early Italian renais- sance. On each of the four sides of the building are placed the entrances, those of the north and south fronts being the most spacious and prominent. To the right and left of each entrance, inside, start broad flights of easy stairs leading to the galleries. The gal- leries are 60 feet wide and 25 feet high from the ground floor, arid are lighted on the sides by large windows and from above by a high clearstory extending around the building. The interior space enclosed is 630 feet long, 100 feet high in the center and 47 feet high at the sides. This space is spanned by steel cantilever trusses, supported on steel col- umns. The clear space in the center is 115 feet. The cantilever system, as applied to roofs, was never used on so large a scale before. The main fronts look southward on the great central court, and northward on the western and middle lakes and an island gorgeous with flowers. These principal fronts dis- play enormous arched entrances, richly embellished with sculptural decorations emblem- atic of mining and its allied industries. At each of these fronts are large square pavilions, surmounted by low domes, which mark the four corners of the building, and are lighted by arched windows extending through the galleries. Between the main entrance and the pavilions are richly decorated arcades, form- ing an open loggia on the ground floor, and a deeply recessed promenade on the gallery floor level, which commands a fine view of the lakes and islands to the northward and the great central court on the south. These covered promenades are each 25 feet wide and 230 feet long, and from them is had access to the building at numerous points. These loggias on the first floor are faced with marbles of different kinds and hues, which will be considered part of the mining exhibit, and so utilized as to have marketable value at the close of the Exposition. The loggia ceilings are heavily coffered and richly decorated in plaster and color. The ornamentation is massed at the prominent points of the facade. The exterior presents a massive, though graceful, appearance. The architect is S. S. Bee- man, of Chicago. . KEY TO INSTALLATION. For the purpose of indicating the location of exhibits in the mines building the col- umns extending north and south are numbered from 1 to 84, and those extending east and west are lettered from "A" to "U." By this system, each exhibit on the ir.ain floor or the gallery has a position of longitude and latitude. For example, the exhibit of Great Britain ■ is located on the main floor at "G-16," or at that point where a line drawn from column " G " would intersect with a line drawn from column " 16." The columns are plainly lettered and numbered. The location of each exhibit is indi- cated by a letter and a number, and exhibits in the gallery are indicated by the letter "g" following the letter and numbers. I Id H (0 Z X »S X > s o r; S 2» 32^ i IE _l " Z o o"o" O hO (0 MACHINERY HALL. The Palace of Mechanic Arts measures, with 500 feet extension, 1,350x500 feet, and with the Machinery Annex and Power House cost about $1,200,000. It is located at the extreme south end of the park, midway between the shores of Lake Michigan and the west line of the park. It is just south of the Administration Building, and west and across a lagoon from the Agriculture Building. The building is spanned by three arched trusses, and the interior pre- sents the appearance of three railroad train-houses side by side, surrounded on all the four sides by a gallery 50 feet wide. In each of the long naves there is an elevated traveling crane running from end to end of the building for the purpose of moving machinery. These plat- forms are built so that visitors may view from them the exhibits beneath. The power from this building is supplied from a power house adjoining the south side of the building.. This is the largest power plant in the world, consisting of boilers of the largest size,, capable of producing 24,000 horse-power. This power is, for the most part, converted by immense dynamos into electric energy, which is distributed by a system of underground galleries and conduits to the large buildings, the electric lights and the electric fountains.. Two of these dynamos, of a capacity of 10,000 lights each, are run by the great Allis en- gine, which is twice as large as the world's wonder of Philadelphia. Of the 24,000 horse- power developed, 17,000 horse-power is devoted to electricity. The boilers are supplied with oil for fuel instead of coal, which is piped direct from the Indiana oil fields to the receiving tanks at Jackson Park. KEY TO INSTALLATION. The exhibits in the Department of Machinery are installed in Machinery Hall proper, in the Power Station, Pump House, Machine Shop, Saw Mill Building, Boiler House Extension, Oil Pump House, and in an out-of-door space near the main building. In the location of exhibits in the catalogue entries, the following abbreviations are used: "PP." —Power Plant: "PS." — Power Station; "PH." — Pump House; "MS." — Machine Shop; "ODS."— Out Door Space; "LS."— Line Shaft; "SMB."— Saw Mill; "BH."— Boiler House; "BHE."— Boiler House Extension; "OPH."— Oil Pump House; "FEH."— Fire Engine Houses; "PH of E. Ry."— Power House of Elevated Railway; "MP."— Midway Plaisance; "B. S. Ry."— Barre Sliding Railway ; "W. D. R. R."— Western Dummy Railroad; "SCW."— Sewage Cleansing Works. The power plant, adjoining the main building, is divided into sections lettered from "A" to "O." The boiler house, on the south, has six numbered divisions, and the divisions of the boiler house extension are numbered from "A" to "E." The east end of the main building is occupied by foreign countries, their various locations being indicated on the floor plan in this catalogue. The main building is divided into numbered sections, as indicated in the p !an. The columns are lettered from south to north, from "A" to "T," and from east to west they are numbered from 1 to 53. Hence, each column bears both a letter and a number. An exhibit located in the catalogue at "28-N-46" is in section 28, near the post or column let- tered "N" on the north and south line, and 46 on the east and west line. TRANSPORTATION BUILDING. The main building measures 960 feet front by 256 deep. From this extends west- ward to Stony Island avenue an annex covering about nine acres. The total floor space devoted to this department, including galleries, annexes, special buildings, etc., is nearly twenty acres. This annex is one story in height. The building is simple, but peculiar in its architecture, and the exterior is decorated in an elaborate manner in polychrome. In general style it savors of the Romanesque. The main entrance to the building consists ■of an immense single arch, enriched to an extraordinary degree with carvings and bas- reliefs. The interior of the building is treated after the manner of a Roman basilica, with broad nave and aisles. The cupola placed exactly in the center of the building rises 165 feet above the ground and is reached by eight elevators. The building cost about $500,000. Architects, Adler & Sullivan, of Chicago. There are three general divisions of exhibits in this department: The railway, marine and the vehicle divisions. For the most part the railway exhibits will be found in the large annex which was built especially for heavy exhibits of this character. The vehicle exhibits occupy the northern end of the mxain building and the annex; the marine exhibits, a portion of the southern-central part of the main building and the southern portion of the east gal- lery; the bicycle and saddlery exhibits, the northern gallery. The exhibits of each foreign country are, however, grouped in one location, thus interfering materially with the general plan of distribution. On entering the building at the golden door, the visitor finds first at his right the exhibit of Great Britain. The English railway exhibit is located in the annex in Sections U and V. North of the British exhibit will be found those of Canada, Brazil, Mexico and a portion of that of Spain. Then come some important American railway exhibits and the American vehicle section. Returning again to the golden door, the visitor turning to the left will observe the French section, including a large display of fine vehicles and railway machinery. Immediately to the south of the French space will be found the exhibits of Russia, Austria, Turkey, Spain and Japan. Following these, to the south, is the principal portion of the American marine exhibit. The entire south end of the main building and the annex is devoted to the great exhibit of the German empire. The main portion of the annex, from the English exhibit in Section U to the Germa.n exhibit in Section G, is occupied by a vast collection of American cars, locomotives and railway appliances of every possible description, and a considerable portion of the main building is also devoted to railways. Beginning at the north and occupying very nearly the center of the annex is the exhibit prepared by the Baltimore & Ohio Railway Co., known as "The Railways of the World." To the south of this is an exhibit of two trains of Pullman palace cars. Follow- ing this exhibit are passenger cars, various forms of freight, street and tram cars and an exceedingly large variety of locomotives representing every locomotive building .establish- ment in the United States but two. The gallery, or entresol floor of the main building, is large and excellently lighted. It is accessible by six staircases and six elevators scattered at intervals under the gallery. The southern end of the gallery is occupied by a comprehensive exhibit by the associated engineering societies of Germany. The southern portion of the east gallery is devoted to marine, and the northern to bicycles. The north end of gallery is devoted to saddlery. The northwestern gallery belongs to the British section and contains bicycles and interesting loan exhibits. The southwestern gallery includes the marine and engineering divisions of the French section, the Netherlands and the Cape of Good Hope. The large exhibits of the New York Central Railroad and the Wagner Palace Car Co. are south of the Annex, and the extensive exhibit of the Pennsylvania Railroad is still further south across the street leading to the 64t*i street entrance. Both of these com- panies have beautiful and expensive buildings, besides their out-of-doors exhibit. At the north end of the Horticultural Building is the exhibit of the White Star Line. The exhibit of Krupp, Essen, Germany, consisting of railway and naval material and heavy ordnance, is located in a special building on the lake shore at the southwestern portion of the grounds, between the Convent of La Rabida and the Leather and Shoe Trades Building. I W31SAS avoHTiva j-TiaaaoNvA •"oo'a 'a aBA.ia Kiosa.0J:i 's TvaiN30 >taOA. «3n <= 1 UI 15 || 1^ n g "SI loJlL ^ Copyrighted 1893, BY THE WORLD'S Columbian exposition For the Exclusive Use of W. B. CONKEY COMPANY, . Chicago. MANUFACTURES AND LIBERAL ARTS BUILDING. DEPARTMENT OF MANUFACTURES. Dimensions, 1,687 by 787 feet. Height of walls, 66 feet. Height of four center pavil- ions, 122 feet. Height of four corner pavilions, 97 feet. Height of roof over central hall, 237.6 feet. Height of roof-truss over central hall, 212.9 feet. Height clear, from the floor, 202.9 feet. Span of truss, 382 feet. Span in the clear, 354 feet. Width of truss at base, 14 feet; at hip, 32 feet; at apex, 10 feet. Weight of truss, 300,000 pounds; with purlines, 400,- 000 pounds. Ground area of building, 30.47 acres. Floor area, including galleries, 44 acres. Cost, $1,700,000. Material— 17,000,000 feet of lumber; 12,000,000 pounds of steel in trusses of central hall; 2,000,000 pounds of iron in roof of nave. Architect, Geo. B. Post, of New York. The building is rectangular in form, and the interior is divided into a great centra hall, 380 by 1,280 feet, which is surrounded by a nave 107 feet wide. Both hall and nave have a 50-foot gallery extending entirely around them. It is in the Corinthian style of architecture and in point of being severely classic ex- cels most of the other large edifices. The long array of columns and arches which its facades present is relieved from monotony by the grand entrances, which are designed in the manner of triumphal arches, the central archway of each being 40 feet wide and 80 feet high. Surmounting these portals is the great attic story, ornamented with sculptured eagles 18 feet high, and on each side above the arches are great panels with inscriptions. The spandrels are filled with sculptured figures in bas-relief. At each corner of the main building are pavilions designed in harmony with the great portals. The domes on either side of the main archways, eight in number, are magnificently decorated by leading American artists,- the subjects being allegorical figures representing the arts and sciences. Extending all around the building is a spacious colonnade nearly a mile long, which looks out upon the lake or lagoon and forms a cool retreat for the tired sight-seers. The exterior of the building is covered with staff, which is treated to repre- sent marble, and the columns and window arches are apparently of this material. This building is the largest in the world, and is the largest under roof ever erected. Its unequaled size makes it one of the architectual wonders of the world. The central hall which is a single room without a supporting pillar under its roof, has in its floor a fraction less than eleven acres, and 75,000 persons can sit in this room, giving each one six square feet of space. By the same arrangement, the entire building will seat 800,000 people. It is theoretically possible to mobilize the standing army of Russia under its roof. The Audi- torium is the most notable building in Chicago, but twenty such buildings could be placed on this floor. There are 11 acres of skylights and 40 carloads of glass in the roof. There are 22 main trusses in the roof of the central hall, and it required 600 flat cars to bring them from the iron works to Chicago. These trusses are twice the size of the next largest in existence, which are 90 feet high and span 250 feet. The latter are in the Pennsylvania railroad depot at Jersey City. KEY TO INSTALLATION. The7Department of Manufactures occupies all of the ground floor of the building, ex- cept Section I, in the southeast corner, which is occupied by the Department of LiberalArts. The Manufactures department also occupies gallery. Sections F and G. The main floor is divided into sixteen sections, lettered from A to Q, and each section is divided into four blocks, numbered from 1 to 4, except Sections A. I, H and Q, which have three blocks. By consulting the ground plan in this catalogue these floor divisions can be located. The exhibits in manufactures are installed by classified groups, collectively, and the location of each group is indicated under the group head in the catalogue. For example, all the exhibits of jewelry, embraced in Group 98, are installed in Section N, Block 1. All silk goods, classified as Group 100, are in Section O, Block 1. The location of the foreign countries is indicated under their entries in the catalogue. n-§5-Fff 1/ liii Mil III 1 1 1 JIOf(f, ^1 RESTAURftNT ;B Eg CAFE I ^^.^ L*oO*n MEXICO »'*" ARGENTINE REPUBLIC JAMAICA /T 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 w\ n 13 15 17 19 20 23\ 24 26 28 30 32 34 36 38 40 \ 41 43 45 47 49 . 51 5354 > I ^ A • /» — • • — *-'^ • f T A f • • J - * — ' — • ^ A I =• f • • ^ A r" • *' • » ' - * k» • Spain 12 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 SPAIN. \ ITALY" a; • '" \- • ' • • Srain 11 13 15 77 19 21 23 Spain ^Q Turkey ^ J BRAZIL - o m U L - , . . , IS- 7 2 3 4 5 6 7 CEVLO < INDIA • • 24 26 28 30 32 34 36 38 40 Nbw South w.alb.b I I I I Kill CANADA GREAT 41 43 45 47 49 51 53 54 BRITAIN D — .-^i 70U77 13 IS 77 W, 2.1 23\J24 26 28 30 '32 34 36 38 40 U4J CHINA 43 45 47 49 51 53 54 i4y» • — • — • — •— • — • — • — 69 71 73 75 77 79 81 83 85 1 \ I? I 0) 1 I i 1 5 56 58 60 62 64 ART METAL WORK 90 92 94 96 98 T~PAINTS AND T TVARNC3HE > 2 a FURS 92 94 96 98 STi^iTES WOOLEN GOODS AND MIXED TEXTILES [III GikS AND LAMP FIXTURES »I69 71 73 '75 77 79 81 83 S5U86 ^ 88 90 92 94 96 ^^^XtAGANDCOo^^ ^f? . 99 101, 102, 1Q3. 104,105,106,107,108, H <1 \ ^ ^ CHEMICALS, iN i 1 PERFUMERY o \ C AND . . . . P TOILET ARTICLES |,Q i IR SCALES, WEIGHTS ' S AND MEASURES* T IJ 99 101, 102. 103, 1 04,1 05J 06, 107,1 08 1 t I - .TS, SAFES, HARDJWARE. EDGE TOOLS • * • AND CUTLkRY* * * .. . . . J W L . , . rd -M il -iW|„ SANITARY GOODS TOOLS AND CUTCERY 5 56 58 6^ 62 64 66 68 \69 77 73 75 77 79 87 83 85 90 92 94 96 RESTAURANT mil 1 nil prnt )6 98 99 101, 102, FIRE ARMS AMMuXfoNr" ^'«f °°0°S^ 1^ 08$ -. — • — » «^« Y. 103,104,1.05.106,101 p| RESTAURANT I .KITCKEnI CAEE m 1 1 I l;e Front. _■ a ■ B HL Ground Flooi? Elan., WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXP0SITI0^3r MANUFACTURES AND LIBERAL ARTS BUILD I Nd, r; HiaoN I i 3aniO3iiH0tiv UJ . iTiTfi r^ © '^ (S ttf m i W] y N C> nmlE: ± V O r a 3 ' liiiiHll I ^' s So' a °3 Uld • ' I " i iMi ryhfa " z o E > (0 Z B. OL u ^ u 2 o U 5 z O L. 5 D. O ? X y °- hJ » S |>o o °- ft I '^ " (0 I I u < > - P CD MANUFACTURES AND LIBERAL ARTS BUILDING. DEPARTMENT OF LIBERAL ARTS. Dimensions, 1,687 by 787 feet. Height of walls, 66 feet. Height of four center pavil- ions, 122 feet. Height of four corner pavilions, 97 feet. Height of roof over central hall, 237.6 feet. Height of roof-truss over central hall, 212.9 feet. Height clear, from the floor, 202.9 feet. Span of truss, 382 feet. Span in the clear, 354 feet. Width of truss at base, 14 feet; at hip, 32 feet;" at apex, 10 feet. Weight of truss, 300,000 pounds; with purlines, 400,- 000 pounds. Ground area of building, 30.47 acres. Floor area, including galleries, 44 acres. Cost, §1,700,000. Material— 17,000,000 feet of lumber; 12,000,000 pounds of steel in trusses of central hall; 2,000,000 pounds of iron in roof of nave. Architect, Geo. B. Post, of New York. The building is rectangular in form, and the interior is divided into a great central hall, 380 by 1,280 feet, which is surrounded by a nave 107 feet wide. Both hall and nave have a 50-foot gallery extending entirely around them. It is in the Corinthian style of architecture, and in point of being severely classic excels most of the other large edifices. The long array of columns and arches which its facades present is relieved from monotony by the grand entrances, which are designed in the manner of triumphal arches, the central archway of each being 40 feet wide and 80 feet high. Surmounting these portals is the great attic story, ornamented with sculptured eagles 18 feet high, and on each side above the arches are great panels with inscriptions. The spandrels are filled with sculptured figures in bas-relief. At each corner of the main building are pavilions designed in harmony with the great portals. The domes on either side of the main archways, eight in number, are magnificently decorated by leading American artists, the subjects being allegorical figures representing the arts and sciences. Extending all around the building is a spacious colonnade nearly a mile long, which looks out upon the lake or lagoon, and forms a cool retreat for the tired sight-seers. The exterior of the building is covered with staff, which is treated to repre- sent marble, and the columns and window arches are apparently of this material. This building is the largest in the world, and is the largest under roof ever erected, Its unequaled size makes it one of the architectural wonders of the world. The central hall, which is a single room without a supporting pillar under its roof, has in its floor a fraction less than eleven acres, and 75,0"0 persons can sit in this room, giving each one six square feet of space. By the same arrangement, the entire building will seat 300,000 people. It is theoretically possible to mobilize the standing army of Russia under its roof. The Audi- torium is the most notable building in Chicago, but twenty such buildings could be placed on this floor. There are 11 acres of skylights and 40 carloads of glass in the roof. There are 22 main trusses in the roof of the central hall, and it required 600 flat car.'; to bring them from the iron works to Chicago. These trusses are twice the size of the next largest in existence, which are 90 feet high and span 250 feet. The latter are in the Pennsylvania railroad station at Jersey City. KEY TO INSTALLATION. The exhibits in the Liberal Arts department occupy all of the gallery space, except Sections F and G, which are devoted to exhibits in the department of Manufactures. The Liberal Arts department also occupies Section I, in the southeast corner, on the main floor, where all musical instruments are installed. The sections in the gallery are lettered from A to K, for the purpose of locating exhibits. The gallery columns are num- bered from south to north, or lengthwise with the building, from 1 to 108, and the cross col- umns from east to west are lettered from A to Z, west to east. The letter and number fol- lowing an exhibit in the catalogue indicate the intersecting point of the column lines nearest the exhibit. The location sign "Gal. A, F-19" means that the exhibit is in Section A at the point where Column F and Column 19 meet. The location of foreign exhibits is indicated under their entry in the catalogue. 39 p P- 9 h^TCHEN|~| RESTAURANT [I I | ' »m e||J^^]J^[j^J^ |Jm^s| | i |„^-^ S.^gj^ff , 1 /J "ESTAURANT [| | j ^ CAFE J^, y^; 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 w\ U 13 15 17 19 20 23\ 24 26 28 30 32 34 36 38 40 \ 41 43 45 47 49 51 ^ — • 1 — • — • . . « ^ « • • ► • ■ • /x ♦ -* • • • ^ A f • • • • ^ |.l 12 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 SPAIN ITALY \ n 13 15 77 79 21 23 Spain I "Z. W I BRAZIL m S 77 13 75 77 79 21 23 24 26 28 30 32 34 36 F.S "0 \ 47 43 .45 47 49 57 S3 54 New South Wales I I I I I I I CANADA GREAT BRITAIN ^^Q^i^fefeIVfeE^ l3A' * ' ' » ' ^ 24^26 28 30" 32 34 36 38 40 147 43 45 47 49 51 53 : L 1 n \ ^ANCE CO I' p c I R m 26 28 30 32 34 36 38 40 \ 41 43 45 47 49 57 56' 54 ' TT 1 ;ta.| |--'""^"^^'"^^ |' | l I I N il l I ' I [4.-. I II ^*" H,|,'„,-s||! Il l l TiirFT'ao iMrr ■■^ T '/l H ' V "^ ^^l ' ' * * flMEN-S CAFbIkiTCH€N|_J RESTAURANT 9 1 LADIES TOIUT-juolES^AWToRV l'-J|,'[f gilcosl' l)^ ^^ j,' EiSifc^s ^' \ RESTAURANT U* CAFE | ^t? U't"* jL • • .a™™ CoiijTiglited IMtfll.by The Wokld's Columbian Exposition for the exclusive use of W. B. Conkev Co. 1 s EAST SIDE; 40 11^ i[ Jjoag y\''<>.r\ I CAFE 1=2, II RESTAURANT j 56*58 60 62 64 66 68 \B9 77 73 75 77 79 81 83 5 5 J 86 8 8 = S| RESTAURANT I klTCHENi 86 88 90 92 94 96 98 J 99 701, 102, 103,104105106,107^08^, unocB ARCHITECTURAL AND ORNAMENTAU \ tl > ""ISTALLATIC 56 58 60 62 '■M-LFU'-DE- H p — ;- "i = 5 1 RESTAURANT I ,KtTCHEN| CAFE t=f ip b* L g i Front, Ground Floor Elan. (SB- WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION!,. MANUFACTURES AND LIBERAL ARTS BUILDING. 41 FORESTRY BUILDING. The Forestry Building is in appearance the most unique of all the Exposition struct- ures. Its dimensions are 200x500 feet. To a remarkable degree its architecture is of the rustic order. On all four sides of the building is a veranda, supp^orting the roof of which is a colonnade consisting of a series of columns composed of three tree-trunks, each 25 feet in length, some of them from 16 to 20 inches in diameter and the others smaller. All of these trunks are left in their natural state, with bark undisturbed. They are con- tributed by the different States and Territories of the Union and by foreign countries, each furnishing specimens of its most characteristic trees. The sides of the building are con- structed of slabs with the bark removed. The main entrances are elaborately finished in different kinds of wood, the material and workmanship being contributed by several prominent lumber associations. The roof is thatched with tan and other barks. The visitor can make no mistake as to the kinds of tree-trunks which form the colonnade, for he wil^^ee^pon each a tablet upon which is inscribed the common and scientific name, the State or country from which the trunk was contributed. The plan of installation in the Forestry Building is the same as that in the Agricultural Building. / > o: / ^^ CQ 1 1- CO 1 I "CQ O ■V c < o" Z ;-S to_ '^— 111 \ O o z '-.S O U. " z "^ . -1 Z t^ 4 CO Z 4 ■^ \^ Q s Z Ol T <* O "^ CO :i 'j: "^ s lU J ^ !■* s 1 < 1 i pr^ I^IIberr Y BROS bo C 3 u o 0, C o *^ o a X G .2 S 2 o >■ z = o so X 5t — bl 7 X u|0 H O f m ANTHEOPOLOGICAL BUILDING. FORESTRY BUILDING. \ O \ 1« :i ■/ ■-■ft.^.iafia.k-'-vN -^ -4'^ i @ g g o E >•" w z O o < tt. 0. X « S O o 3 )< St = — -^ LI 5» i C -J ^ O >• O " O , - P CD s *■ UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT BUILDING. THIS structure is 420 feet long by 350 feet in width, its main floor covering an area of 157,500 square feet. Its galleries have an area of 33,500 square feet additional, making a total of 191,000 square feet of floor space. Of this area about 175,500 square feet are devoted to exhibit purposes and circulation and 16,500 square feet to offices and corridors. The building was designed by the supervising architect of the treasury, and erected under his supervision. It is of "modern renaissance" architecture, the main feature being a central dome 120 feet in diameter, and 275 feet from the ground to the top of the flag pole. This dome is constructed of steel, and is supported on sixteen columns. The entire cost of the main building was 1^325,000, or ^2.07 per square foot of its floor area, or three cents per foot of its cubic space. The limit of cost for the Government Buildings at the World's Columbian Exposition was fixed by law at ^400,000. From the balance of the appropriation not consumed in the erec- tion of the main building four auxiliary structures have been erected, specially adapted to the exhibits of the United States Naval Observatory, the United States Army Medical Depart- ment, and for the Weather and Indian Bureaus respectively. 4i) FIRST FtiOOH fLAN, U.S.aaVERNMENT BUILDINO, WORLDIS COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION, CHICAGO, i 633, SHOWINO nEB^RTMENT AND BVREAV WVISIONS. iO IT ■A WooL 1 CtOtan, £tu^u>'% of Or-Mxifiolcsy *nd of kV Du^LSion, of OrnUJielogy mnd DiifutaTk efEngtmotagy. fCah. CtUturo. , DEPARTMENT OV AGRICULTURE. npi 1 ONT. TO TBS INCB. 51 DIA6RAA\ NOTES. An exhibit of the resources of Alaska is to be found in the north gallery, to be reached by the stairs near Post 7-R. An exhibit of the supervising architect's office of the Treas- ury, and of postage stamps under the Postoffice Department, is to be found in the south gallery, and to be reached by the stairs at Post 7-B. The commercial exhibit made by the Department of State is to be found in the east gallery, which may be reached by the stairs at Post l-I and 1-K. 52 TirOiriCIAL UVI7\LObl the only \ books by which you can locate the Ex hibits in tlio Worl(i'<^ Columbian bxposition. w" B. GONK&y COiyiPflNYi Publi&inii f^ niiiUii's and Book Manutactiirnrs. CHIGftGO. t S- -^^ S^, ^"^ -^p/ ^'^"^ ^^^^^ -^% _ ijk " o , ^^ o ■'^^ -*•<>- % V^ s'VC \- .^^-V. ^ ■' LIBRARV BINDING I "<* "^ ^^^C