Manufactures Builing, Interior

"c. 1893

This interior view conveys the drama of the Manufactures Building, which featured a 246-foot-tall ceiling, the largest electric chandeliers created up to that point, and a clock tower whose face was so enormous that it could be read from any corner of the vast building.

 

Ground Floor Plan of Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, 1893. From Rand McNally & Co.'s Diagrams of World's Fair Buildings Showing Locations of Exhibits"

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