Globe Litho "True Guide Through World's Fair Grounds, Columbian Exposition 1893

Description

Blue and Red Printed Map Guide of the Chicago 1893 World's Fair Issued as an Ad by the Publisher
- 6 x 3.75 when folded inches. Smooth
buff sheet
with
blue print
ed title and graphic of the
Administration Building
(front cover shown); back cover with publisher's title and location (shown). Chicago:
Globe
, 1893.  There are (4) panels printed in blue, black, and red on heavy paper. The inside open is a finely keyed in red detailed
map of Jackson Park
with main, state, and foreign buildings listed as well as the complete
Midway Plaisance
(both inside leaves shown). This, as they point out, is the
easiest-to-carry guide
! This one was sponsored by the publisher,
Globe
, as
their own ad
looking for other paying customers which we've seen over the years (bottom front cover shown). The lower part of the front page also lists where their exhibit was located on the map (shown)
- Supplemental Information:
In deed, "The Official Catalog" of exhibitors does list their location up in the
Gallery of Liberal Arts
in the Manufactures Building (shown and digitally highlighted). Globe was
operating in Chicago
from at least 1871 after the great city fire and until 1922. We've seen this "
True Guide
" printed for other advertisers as listed in our published WCE bibliography set.
- Condition:
Excellent.
Folded sheet hinges perfect (shown). Very nice and detailed and accurate lithographic map with key to Jackson Park (shown). Upper left corner bend (shown). Covers lightly soiled (shown).
**Buyer pays
.95 First Class Package shipping in a stiff package with tracking number.