A descriptive catalogue of the agricultural products exhibited in the World's Columbian Exposition
A descriptive catalogue of agricultural products shown at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, issued in Tokyo by Japan's Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce for an international audience. The pictures are a mix of scientific apparatus line drawings, including a stereometer and a tribometer, and photographs of a pair of decorated porcelain vases and an enamelled lidded jar with catalogue numbers. The drawings are plain technical diagrams with labelled parts, and the vases show glazed ceramics with bird and cloud patterns that a designer could use as period reference for Japanese decorative motifs.
