E-text prepared by Joseph E. Loewenstein, M.D. Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 39639-h.htm or 39639-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/39639/pg39639-images.html) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39639/39639-h.zip) PICTURESQUE WORLD'S FAIR An Elaborate Collection of Colored Views Published with the Endorsement and Approval of George R. Davis, Director-General of the World's Columbian Exposition. Comprising Illustrations of the Greatest Features of The World's Columbian Exposition and Midway Plaisance Architectural, Artistic, Historical, Scenic and Ethnological. The Magnificent Water and Landscape Effects and Charming Vistas Made Realistic by Authentic Reproduction in All of the Colors of Nature and Art. Under the direction of the celebrated Landscape Artist, John R. Key. From Photographs made by authority of the Director-General, for the United States Government, and by Special Artists Employed Expressly for this work. Each View Accompanied by a Graphic and Accurate Description. Published by W. B. Conkey Company, Official Publishers of the World's Columbian Exposition Catalogue, etc. Chicago Copyright, 1894. W. B. Conkey Company. All Rights Reserved. This work being fully protected by copyright, any infringement will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. INTRODUCTION. The publishers of "Picturesque World's Fair," in presenting these exquisite views, feel justified in congratulating themselves upon the success that has attended their efforts to place within the reach of all classes of people an artistic realistic reproduction of the great Exposition. Not only do the publishers feel gratulation in their own behalf, but they believe that through the perfection of the printers' art, by means of the application of labor-saving machinery, and through the enterprise of the progressive press of the United States, a work so rare, so interesting, so accurate and so invaluable, at so insignificant an expense, will be a benefaction to all classes of people. That the handsomely colored views contained in this volume, true in every respect to the design of the decorator and the unrivaled charm of nature, have received the most enthusiastic indorsement of the Director-General, the Executive Officer of the Exposition, who from the beginning to the close was its center figure and its controlling and guiding force, affords the publishers little opportunity for comment upon the pictorial features of this work. No production of a similar character has received the sanction of the Director-General; no enterprise of a contemporaneous period has received a higher compliment.