With meticulous descriptions of 2,700 publications, this is the only reference material you will ever need to discover nearly every publication ever written regarding the World's Columbian Exposition.

The authors have done your homework for you. Created from a love of collecting, this incredibly detailed and indexed work is a must for serious World's Fair enthusiasts, collectors, historians and researchers. Developed after years of research with 150 different libraries and interviews with major collectors, Annotated Bibliography makes understanding and accessing this enormous topic easy.

Accurately identify pieces in your collection, and uncover the many items and categories still out there for the finding. Use the price guides to estimate the value of your souvenirs, and to judge the prices for items you find for sale. The 250 photographs of selected items makes this process even easier.

A tremendous amount of work went into the organization of the chapters, making findingwhat you want simple. Every possible item has been included and divided into the following chapters: Foreign and State Publications, Legislation, Official Exposition Publications, Music, Guides, View Books, Magazines and Newspapers, Children's Books, Cookbooks, Fiction, World's Congresses, Salesmen's Samples, Unpublished Materials, as well as Recent Publications.

In addition to the precise descriptions, the reader can also access...

a schematic diagram of the World's Columbian Exposition a detailed map of the grounds an extensive list of state and national legislative information a compilation of recent books analyzing the 1893 Fair Fair facts and trivia library source abbreviations citation and abbreviation keys to simplify the understanding of these painstakingly uniform descriptions

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