World's Fair Authentic Guide: Complete Reference Book to St. Louis and the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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In presenting the Authentic Guide to the public, assurance is given that accuracy and reliability have been the two objects constantly kept in view in its preparation. It is believed that the Authentic Guide will prove the most satisfactory medium whereby visitors may quickly grasp the scope of the wonderful exhibition of human progress unfolded at the World's Fair grounds, and that the work will be indispensable alike to those who intend to make an exhaustive study of the aggregated marvels now shown and to such as wish to take only a casual survey of them.

In describing the great fundamental aspects of the Fair, its underlying purposes and ultimate aims, the complex of palaces and buildings, ornamental features, and the myriad details that enter into the World's Fair picture, recourse has been bad to the latest Official information, all data of this kind having been secured from Official sources. In this and all other respects the Authentic Guide is what its title indicates, and accordingly it is Offered in the confident expectation that its absolute trustworthiness will be verified by the test of actual experience.

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