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1904 World Fair PD
Scanned from a period stereoscope card. Copyrighted 1904 by T. W. Ingersoll.
USA copyright expired. Other copyrights, if any, unknown.
Original caption:
One of the architectural triumphs of the Exposition was the successful blending of classical achitecture with the wealth of form which the modern electric light makes it possible to show at night. While in the pale moonlight the details of a Corinthian capital are lost, the sharp electric light brings them out,and so the architects of the Palace of Electricity loaded the four long fascades of the building with balconies and vases, ornamental pedestals and turrets, and massed a bewildering variety of decorations on the roofs of the four corner pavilions. Rising in a pyramidal form they were crowned by the nude figures of Light, holding aloft brilliant stars, while groups representing the Wonders of Lighting and the Wonders of Aurora decorated the sides of the bases. At night every smallest detail of the wealth of form stood out in clear relief.
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