Book Description

Excerpt from Centennial Bulletin, Vol. 3: December, 1917 The great pageant for Springfield will therefore Show, if it is found fully r practicable, the history of Illinois portrayed in six prologues, six twenty minute dramatic scenes, and seven processions, forming a continuous history of the upbuilding from savage surroundings to our present civilization and concluding with a procession of Columbia and her Allies, appropriately cos turned, bearing their national standards, arid with their national music. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.