Views of the World's fair and Midway plaisance .. . The Illinois Building was, as might have been expected, the most expensive and imposing statebuilding on the grounds, being erected at a cost of 8250,000 and containing great numbers of dimensions were four hundred and fifty feet by one hundred and sixty feet. Its great dome ^^one of the notable features of the exposition landscape. was. The Grain Picture, which attracted so much attention in the Ilhnois State Building, was the workof Mr. Fursman, and represented an Illinois prairie farm of one hundred and sixty acres. Ihe rrame,
Views of the World's fair and Midway plaisance .. . The Illinois Building was, as might have been expected, the most expensive and imposing statebuilding on the grounds, being erected at a cost of 8250,000 and containing great numbers of dimensions were four hundred and fifty feet by one hundred and sixty feet. Its great dome ^^one of the notable features of the exposition landscape. was. The Grain Picture, which attracted so much attention in the Ilhnois State Building, was the workof Mr. Fursman, and represented an Illinois prairie farm of one hundred and sixty acres. Ihe rrame,curtain and the picture itself were all made of grain, corn husks, grasses and similar products ot thefarm. The perspective and effects of light and shade were all observed.
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