Exposition Postal Card

This mint object is part of the third and last official set of twelve domestic-size postal cards printed as an official souvenir of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois. The earlier official sets consisted of ten designs illustrating the various exposition buildings and the U.S. Naval Exhibit. This federal postal card depicting the Fine Art Building and one other depicting the Machinery Building were new additions to the final set issued.

The collection consists of the twelve-card set and a souvenir wrapper original to the earlier issued ten-card set. A larger history of the Columbian Exposition postal cards can be found in the first record of the series.

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