Box 1

Weaving of an unidentified building, possibly from the World Cotton Centennial, as the matte bears a faded date of 1884-1885.

Personal scrapbook kept by unknown. Included are handwritten accounts of Decoration Day (precursor to Memorial Day) ceremony held in Chicago, circa 1897. Officiating were John A. Logan and N.P. Chipman. Another handwritten entry (incomplete) mentions specific Civil War battles and the monument dedicated to Taylor's Battery, Company B, First Regiment, Illinois Light Artillery. Scrapbook includes programs and photographs from the World's Columbian Exposition.

Includes advertisements likely circulated after the Exposition. Consists of an advertisement for a lecture about the Exposition and a small brochure supporting the restoration of the Fine Arts Building.

Includes information on Exposition buildings. Missing pages.

Includes invitations to dedicatory exercises and private viewings of exhibits.

Two bond certificates. Also included is a small pamphlet about the issuance of the bonds, including the estimated financial resources of the Exposition.

Four trade cards for various products available from Enterprise Manufacturing Company of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

6 prints of exhibition areas, including the Peristyle and the Statue of the Republic; views of the Colonnade; the Manufactures Building; the Art Building; views from the Grand Basin; and the Agricultural Building. World's Columbian Exposition Department of Photography, Chief: C.D. Arnold.

26 stereographs depicting construction of various exhibit areas. For use with stereoscope [see FX].

Cabinet card of unidentified woman. Inscription on back: "To Lady Ruth / … / In Memory of Eleanor Carey."

Includes Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, Agriculture Building, and Electricity Building, among others.

Unspecified building.