University of Maryland -- World's Fair Overview

This print, from a set of 25 photogravures of drawings, depicts the Electricity Building at the World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago in 1893.

This exhibit is a sampling of the Ephemeral and Graphic Materials in the World's Fair Collection owned by the Architecture Library at the University of Maryland, College Park. The site contains a virtual exhibition gallery for each fair in the collection.
The collection contains books as well as ephemeral and graphic materials for over 30 fairs and international expositions.