Manufactures Building, from Horticultural Hall, World's Columbian Exposition 1894

Editor: This photograph by William Henry Jackson depicts the Manufactures Building at the World's Columbian Exposition. It looks incredibly vast! What strikes you most about this image? Curator: The scale is certainly impressive, but I’m more drawn to thinking about what went *into* creating this immense structure. What materials were used, and where did they come from? Editor: I hadn’t considered that. So, you see it as a monument to production? Curator: Precisely. It's not just a building; it's a display of industrial capabilities and the labor involved in achieving that scale. Were these materials locally sourced, or imported from across the globe? The answer would reveal much about global trade at the time. Editor: That's a fascinating point. I’ll definitely look into the materials and labor that constructed this building. Thank you!