Leather Shoe Trades Building

Fourth at the Fair, Part 15: Around the Fairgrounds

The Fourth of July at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago was the biggest day yet at the Fair.

PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR – The Krupp Gun (p. 37)

PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR. AN ELABORATE COLLECTION OF COLORED VIEWS Page 37 – THE KRUPP GUN KRUPP GUN EXHIBIT AND LEATHER AND SHOE TRADES BUILDING.—The building in which was the famous Krupp Gun exhibit and that devoted to the Leather and Shoe Trade displays were situated together on the lake front, in the southeastern part of the Exposition grounds, and both appear in the above Illustration. The big gun shown in the Krupp exhibit, the largest in the world, weighs one [...]

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