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The book of the fair : an historical and descriptive presentation of the world's science, art, and industry, as viewed through the Columbian exposition at Chicago in 1893 ... (1893)

Bancroft, Hubert Howe, 1832-1918 · Chicago : Bancroft · leaf 32

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f the strongest and most interesting works, lhe scene is a Canadian house, to the owner of which, his features pallid and worn with long months of suffering, the sheriff is reading his doom. Looking at this picture one almost seems to hear the harsh, legal phrases as they fall from mouth of the… … tender but hopeless expression, and near by an elderly woman, bent with the infirmity of age, completes this sorrowful group. “The Visit of the Clockmaker," another of Reid's four canvases, represents a group ol flaxen-haired children watching an old man engaged on the task which its title implies.…

World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)

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