http://www.mohistory.org/Fair/WF/HTML/Overview/page3.html
Manufacturers:
-exhibits devoted to household articles, equipment, clothing, and merchandise for personal use
-many exhibits were working displays: people could watch creation of clothing from companies such as Brown Shoe Company and Singer Sewing Company
-constructed at cost of $723,510
-eastern half of building displayed upholstry, carpets, and clothing
-western half contained hardware such as cutlery, stoves, furnaces, and Italion marble and alabaster which people could purchase
-also displayed bazaar where retailers could rent booths to sell their wares to fairgoers
Mines and Metallurgy:
-contained hundreds of models of mines and exhibits of product that demonstrated latest in mining technology
-constructed at cost of $498,661
-contained examples af raw material and products produced from those materials
-outside palace: examples of primitive mining by Mexican Indians, operational displays of cement making, brick making, coal mining, pottery making, and a ride through reproduction of coal mining
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