In 1895, William Potts (a New Englander who visited the World`s Columbian Exposition of 1893) described it as ”the great show in Chicago.” He wrote, ”You cannot help remembering, if you were ...

But I’ve often said—and I stand by this—that if I had a time machine, I’d go visit the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago. The 1893 World’s Fair (officially known as the World’s Columbian ...

In November of 1890, a group of women called the Board of Lady Managers gathered in Chicago, a city that had been chosen as the site for the World’s Fair of 1893. The fairgrounds, an area of ...

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When the Brown family visited the Chicago World’s Fair 130 years ago in 1893, the fair was a celebration of such new innovations as electricity, with artists, inventors, and industrialists eager to ...

America hosted the World's Fair of 1893 as a celebration of Columbus' voyage to the continent four hundred (and one) years earlier. Chicago beat out New York, St. Louis and Washington, D.C. for ...