1893

Vintage: Portraits of People in Their Traditional Costumes (1893 Chicago World’s Fair)

17 September 2018 0

The World Columbian Exposition was held from May to October 1893 in Chicago in honor of the 400th anniversary of Columbus’ discovery of the new world. In competition with many other cities, Chicago was finally designated the official site and the Exposition was built on 630 acres in and around Jackson Park. It was a spectacular display of progress and…

World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893

27 June 2015 0

The World’s Columbian Exposition was a World’s Fair held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the New World in 1492. The Exposition was an influential social and cultural event and had a profound effect on architecture, sanitation, the arts, Chicago’s self-image, and American industrial optimism. Most of the buildings of the fair…

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Vintage: Portraits of People in Their Traditional Costumes (1893 Chicago World’s Fair)

World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893

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