People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1893 — Wood Carving at the Fair. [ARTICLE]

Wood Carving at the Fair.

Cue ;art of the work done by women for different parts of the woman’s building at the world’s fair will be a series of panels in wood carving. A panel carved by an Ohio girl on highlypolished cherry wood shows three intertwining palm branches; one from the state of Alabama and worked on .magnolia wood is beautifully carved with magnolias in leaf, bud and flower. Three young women who are pupils in the Chicago art school have also contributed panels. Qne represents corn flowers, one nasturtiums and one ap pie blossoms. Nearly every state in the union has sent a panel of some wood peculiar to itself.’