Details
Contributor Novelty Card & Adv'g Co., printer.
Title Transportation Building. 250 x 960 feet. Cost $280,000. [graphic].
Publisher Chicago: Novelty Card & Adv'g Co
Publisher ILL. Chicago. 1892
Date c1892
Physical Description 1 print: halftone photomechanical print; 8 x 12 cm. (3.25 x 4.5 in.)
Description Trade card issued during the Columbian Exposition of 1893 advertising M&D Wrought Steel Ranges. Contains a view of the Transportation Building built after the designs of Adler & Sullivan and lower cornice vignettes showing a ship and a train. The exposition held in Chicago May 1-October 30, 1898 celebrated the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492.
Notes Copyright by A. L[os?]se & Co.
Illustration and advertising text printed on verso. Illustration depicts a Mason & Davis cooking range, including six burners. Text reads: M & D Wrought Steel Ranges for Coal, Wood or Gas. All Sizes and Styles. For Families, Restaurants and Hotels. Mason & Davis Co., 72 Lake St., Chicago, Ill.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of Michael Zinman.
Subject Mason & Davis Co.
World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) -- Buildings.
Railroads.
Ships.
Genre Trade cards -- 1890-1900.
Halftone photomechanical prints -- 1890-1900.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Michael Zinman World's Fairs Collection - Trade cards [P.2008.36.82]
Accession number P.2008.36.82