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White City Recollections: The Illustrated 1893 Diary of a Trip to the World's Columbian Exposition Books
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 900
EAN: 9780963161222
ISBN: 0963161229
Label: The Book Stops Here
Manufacturer: The Book Stops Here
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 180
Publication Date: October 06, 2003
Publisher: The Book Stops Here
Sales Rank: 380545
Studio: The Book Stops Here
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Product Description:
With youthful enthusiasm, eighteen-year-old Friend Pitts Williams absorbed the world's fair of 1893 and candidly recorded his illuminating and sometimes romantic observations in this diary. As did millions of others, he traveled by train to Chicago and immersed himself in the captivating sights and events of the greatest world's fair—the watershed and record-breaking World's Columbian Expositon, popularly called "The White City."
His insightful record is illustrated with 270 photographs that the authors have carefully selected from their extensive Columbian Exposition reference library which exactly match the scenes the young man describes.
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The book was a nice quick read and skillfully matched the diary of an 18 year old young man attending the the Expo with his father while displaying photographs of what he was observing. Anyone interested in Chicago or US histoty should enjoy the book.
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The written descriptions and frank comments in Friend Pitts Williams' diary of his trip to the World's Columbian Exhibition in Chicago in 1893 conjures in the reader's imagination the sights that young Friend encountered. Dybwad and Bliss artfully supplemented the text of William's delightfully fresh diary with over 275 photographs and images of most all of the exhibits, buildings, displays, and galleries that Williams encountered on his trip. The reader gets a sense of the sheer magnitude and grandeur ... Read More
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