This model of the moon—made of 116 sections of plaster on a framework of wood and metal—was prepared by Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt for the Field Columbian Museum in Chicago; the museum was located on the grounds of the World’s Columbian Exposition, and housed the artifacts from the anthropology, botany, geology and zoology collections from the fair.
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