Revised catalogue, Department of Fine Arts : with index of exhibitors
Revised catalogue of the Department of Fine Arts at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, published by W.B. Conkey Co. for visitors and exhibitors, with an index of artists. The pictures are small, plain halftone portrait photographs of men in late nineteenth-century dress, shot head and shoulders against grey studio backdrops. A designer might take from them the period styles of moustaches, beards, high collars, and lapelled suits, as well as the conventions of formal studio portraiture from the 1890s.
