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[CHICAGO WORLD’S FAIR]. Original souvenir photo album of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. [Chicago: Ralph Golsen, ca. 1893]. 47 mounted silver gelatin or collodion black and white photographs of buildings and scenes (110 x 168 mm) in the original photo album. One photo is laid-in. Oblong 8vo (174 x 266 mm). Publisher’s half brown calf over black cloth boards, front board stamped in gilt, bound with 2 screw mounts on front, on pastedowns is the publisher’s guide to the photos, listed by numbers (each photo has a corresponding number in the lower left corner) (binding worn and soiled, covers partially detached, card stock mount pages a bit wrinkled, some occasional toning, soiling to mounts, photos a bit toned lacking the 2 screw mounts in back). [Together with:] Souvenir Map of the World’s Columbian Exposition at Jackson Park and Midway Plaisance. Chicago: Hermann Heinze, 1893. Map on folded white paper, printed in colors (632 x 623 mm, unfolded). Bound in printed red wrappers (front cover is loose, edgewear, soiling, map has one tear along one of the creases). An attractive and fascinating group.