The Exposition in a Nutshell: A Complete Guide, Enabling Visitors to More Readily See and Appreciate the Great Inter-State Exposition of Chicago (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 0428541798 ISBN 13: 9780428541798

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Exposition in a Nutshell: A Complete Guide, Enabling Visitors to More Readily See and Appreciate the Great Inter-State Exposition of Chicago

If it were not for the very great amount of interest and encouragement manifested by all classes of citizens, we might be justified in saying that this enterprise grew out of the efforts of the Woolen Manufacturers' Association to establish a permanent annual exposition of textile fabrics in the west, and at the head of which movement was Mr. Geo. S. Bowen of Chicago. But as the great inter-state Exposition is the child of the pluck and energy of Chicago, we can only say that the exposition of textile fabrics was a forerunner.

A meeting of business men was summoned under the follow ing call, issued at the suggestion of Mr. Geo. S. Bowen'

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0428541798
• ISBN 13: 9780428541798
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 150