1893 Chicago World's Fair Electric Painting Machine - ORIGINAL HISTORIC FAIR3 CHM1 and enlarging lanterns

and enlarging lanterns

This is an original 1921 black and white halftone print of the Railroad Station at Helsinki

Kate Greenaway in 1895

This is an original 1900 black and white print ad promoting the Wanamaker-Reliable Shoes for Women from John Wanamaker's Department Store located in New York

1893 Chicago World's Fair Electric Painting Machine - ORIGINAL HISTORIC FAIR3 CHM1 and enlarging lanternsPainting the Great Buildings of the Exposition. This is an original 1893 halftone print of the painting machine used at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. With this machine three men were able to do the work of twenty. (Please note that, typical of halftone prints, there is printing on the reverse.) Period Paper has obtained a wonderful set of halftone images of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, also known as the World Columbian Exposition. This collection