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Title: The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: White, Trumbull, 1868-1941 Igleheart, William, (from old catalog) joint author
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: Philadelphia and St. Louis, P.W. Ziegler & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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*!^mm ifotm seasons, AGRICTTLTURAI, BTJII^DING. (Martwy,) Station in operation. This, with its office, laboratories, etc., illus.trates how the in-door work of a station Is actually carried on. Inanother portion of the exhibit each station presents, by means ofmaps, diagrams, pictures, sets of publications, etc., a full statementof its lines of work, following out in detail the history of itscareer; but the Important portion is not this Individual showing,but a unified exhibit showinor the kind of work done by the sta- AGRICULTURE. 169 tlons, the way in which they do it, and some of the more importantresults which they have reached. This exhibit was prepared by a
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GROUP ON MAIN PIER, AGRICULTURAL BUILDING. (Marthiy.) committee of the Association of American Agricultural Collegesand Experiment Stations co-operating with the United States De-partment of Agriculture. Much of the decorative work on the Agricultural Buildinorproperly finds its motive in subjects native to America, such as thepotato, tobacco, maize, etc. The great frieze, showing the turkey,is especially happy, and calls forth the frequent remark that thatbird should have been our national emblem instead of the eag-le. There are many groups of statuary adorning the exterior of thisbuilding, some of which have been referred to briefly before.Philip Martiny, of Philadelphia, is the sculptor of the followingsubjects: Twenty single Signs of the Zodiac; twenty singlefigures of Abundance ; two groups of Ceres ; two groups ofthe Four Seasons; four groups of the Nations, each group I70 AGRICULTURE. containing four figures, and four pediments representing AgricuUture. Over the main entrance i

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