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Identifier: officialdirector00worl (find matches)
Title: The official directory of the World's Columbian exposition, May 1st to October 30th, 1893. A reference book of exhibitors and exhibits; of the officers and members of the World's Columbian commission, the world's Columbian exposition and the board of lady managers; a complete history of the exposition. Together with accurate descriptions of all state, territorial, foreign, departmental and other buildings and exhibits, and general information concerning the fair
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) Handy, Moses P. (Moses Purnell), 1847-1898
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: Chicago, W.B. Conkey company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress
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old gentleman lived inprincely style. All the furniture of his mansion was bought in France. In thecollection is a cherry table, a mahogany bureau with swell front and plain col-umns, and a pier glass from the carved ebony mantel. A picture of the house inwhich the first legislature was held will be shown. It was the first brick housein the Mississippi valley, and the bricks were brought from Pittsburg on flatboatsdown the Ohio and up the Mississippi. Sangamon county sends many interest-ing things from the Lincoln home. Among them is the table cloth used at thewedding breakfast of Lincoln, and now preserved by a niece of Mrs. Lincoln,Also the ball dresses warn by Mrs. Lincoln at the first and second inauguralballs. Jo Daviess county sends the saddle in which Grant rode during the war,and the lantern he carried with his equipments. In the scientific department Miss Nettie Ayers, who is assistant in the Uni-versity of Illinois at Champaign and the only woman bacteriologist, has a work-
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ALTERNATE COMMISSIONERS WORLDS COLUMBIAN COMMISSION. 1. Timothy E. Collins,Montana. ti. Rush Strong, Tennessee. 7. Wm. L. May, Nebraska. 12. Asa S. Mercer, Wyoming. 13. John K. Halt.ock, Pennsylvania. 2. Wm. S. Hall, Alabama.5. S. A. Ramsay, South Dakota.8. Jno. Lauterbach,Nebraska.11. Chas. B. Eddy. New Mexico.14. Louis C. Feterd,New Mexico. 3. Jos. W. McNeal, Oklahoma. 4. Jas. Roosevelt, New York.9. Jas. H. Breslin,New York.10. Geo. A. Macbeth, Pennsylvania.15. Dudley W. Adams,Florida.
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