Spectacle in the White City

By Stanley Appelbaum

Introduction by Peter B. Hales

The World’s Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago in 1893, combined nostalgia for the United States’ European roots with a celebration of the nation’s emergence as a world power. A splendid tribute to the exposition’s “White City” of shining Beaux-Arts buildings, this volume offers a grand photographic record, printed in duotone in a sweeping landscape format with gatefolds. Essays and captions by a noted historian offer a guided tour of this prelude to 20th-century America’s artistic and industrial might.

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Spectacle in the White City

By Stanley Appelbaum & Introduction by Peter B. Hales

• 12" x 9" landscape format
• 192 pages
• 128 duotone plates, with four-page gatefold
• Duotone printed endpapers
• Hardcover with preprinted case and overprinted vellum dust jacket
• MSRP: $50.00 US
• Publication Date: January 2009
• ISBN-13: 978-1-60660-006-1
• ISBN-10: 1-60660-006-0

A special Calla Editions™ created from the 1980 Dover Original publication The Chicago World’s Fair of 1893: A Photographic Record.