A city of palaces in a recovering town
The bird's-eye view shows a full classical complex around a lake. The record puts this in a city still rebuilding after 1864.
The questionWhere are the quarry and mill records for the fair's buildings?
Investigate · Atlanta 1895
Piedmont Park 1895 Bird's-Eye view of the Cotton States and International Exposition Atlanta GA
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Photo: Unknown photographer · Public domain · via Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons
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#7The iron arches, with three people in sightWhy is a 'construction' photo dated during the fair, and how was a span like this put up in the time recorded?
1,850 feet of iron and glass in about nine monthsHow many men, carts and horses would it take to cast, haul and raise thousands of matching iron parts that quickly, and where are the photos of that work?
The 1,880-foot Main BuildingWith horses and horsecars as the heavy transport, how was this length of iron and glass raised in two years?
A moving gallery over a vast iron spanWhy build a hall this strong only to take it down two decades later?
A whole classical town in a bird's-eye viewHow was a site this size built, and a full-size Parthenon cast, within about a year?
A Chicago-scale court in a prairie cityHow did a city that size supply the crews, materials and horses for a court like this?