1893 COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION CHICAGO WORLD'S FAIR POP-UP BOOK
1893 Columbian Exposition / Chicago
World's Fair
Published as Souvenirs
of the Exposition - illustrating the various buildings. The book opens to a pop-up of buildings
that are numbered and correspond to their names on the front cover.
Measures 12" x 10
1/4"
Patent date - June 26, 1883 - Cover
is marked "Registered" and "Printed in Germany".
Good – In all
original condition. The pop-ups are all
in good shape. A tiny torn flag was neatly reattached - see photo. Cover binding is split almost an inch - see photo Still opens properly. The strips that pull pop-up are damaged in the rear and in need of repair and reglueing. It will not pop-up unless the strip repair is made.
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All books are returnable within 10
days for any reason.
Collector’s Corner:
The Building pop-ups include:
Casino & Pier, The Art Palace, The dairy Building
In “Viewing Souvenirs” from the Journal
of Design History Vol. 15 No. 2 © 2002 The Design History Society – Amy Ogata
writes:
“optical
souvenirs produced for international expositions reconfirmed the enchanted
visual experience in a way that
other mass-produced souvenirs could not and, moreover, that this held implications for
both popular consumption and collective memory.”……..” the paper
peepshow and pop-up souvenirs that were made for world's fairs operate metonymically.
That is, they offer a singular, fragmentary, viewpoint that stands for the
whole experience of attending an international exposition. By experiencing the gigantic structures as miniature
environments, the viewer becomes all-powerful, and the buildings become portable mementoes. The
process of miniaturization renders the abstract visual experience into a neatly collectible commodity.”