The World's Columbian Exposition 1893. Chicago, U.S.A. 1893
Official Catalogue With Illustrations issued by the Royal Danish Commission
År: 1893
Sider: 163
UDK: 061.4(100) Chicago
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HISTORICAL NOTES
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nomic as in all other respects. The balance in favor of the
Union was so large as to -allow it to act with an assurance
in all its movements that had been wanting till then. It was
its president at the time, the late Mr. G. Christensen, gun-
maker, who was the real bearer of the Exposition of 1872,
and under his guidance the Union obtained as its-property
the building (see above p. 156) in which the Exposition was
held, and where since then it has had its residence.
But the Union did not apply the whole of its fortune to
procuring a home. More than ever it was keeping in mind
its second object as stated above, and in 1876 its endeavors
succeeded in uniting two technical schools, that had hitherto
existed at Copenhagen, into one large establishment: Det tek-
niske Selskabs Skole (The Technical Society's School) which since
has been working satisfactorily, liberally supported by the