Views of the World's fair and Midway plaisance .. . The Manufactures Building, from the southwest corner of the Grand Basin, looked very much like amountain richly sculptured and decorated about its base. The enormous expanse of domed roof wasalmost too great to suggest ordinary human construction. Its more distant features were renderedvague and uncertain, and the general bigness of the Exposition was fully The east side of Manufactures Building as viewed from Lake Michigan here shows when there isthe stillness of a summer Sabbath, not even a gentle zephyr to create a ripple; the
Views of the World's fair and Midway plaisance .. . The Manufactures Building, from the southwest corner of the Grand Basin, looked very much like amountain richly sculptured and decorated about its base. The enormous expanse of domed roof wasalmost too great to suggest ordinary human construction. Its more distant features were renderedvague and uncertain, and the general bigness of the Exposition was fully The east side of Manufactures Building as viewed from Lake Michigan here shows when there isthe stillness of a summer Sabbath, not even a gentle zephyr to create a ripple; the pennants hang list-less on their staffs, the mighty monarch of the Exposition is reposing, and the little craft, the only thingthat seems possessed of life in the scene, lies as idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean. ±
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