This May 1893 photo shows the grounds of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, including the world’s first Ferris wheel, which carried 1,400 people 250 feet into the air and was ...

The story takes place in 1893, Chicago prepared to host the World’s Columbian Exposition, a monumental undertaking spearheaded by architect Daniel Burnham. He conceived and designed the ...

America hosted the World's Fair of 1893 as a celebration of Columbus ... Burnham succeeded. The World's Columbian Exposition established a Neo-Classical revival in Chicago and across America.

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In November 1893, the journalist Kate Field asked what should be done with the buildings of the World’s Columbian Exposition, the great majority of which were built as temporary structures.

In the years leading to the Columbian Exposition of 1893, Chicago reexamined itself ... gathers some remarkable before-and-after photos of the fire's devastation, from the South Loop up to ...

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Chicago’s World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 by the Chicago History Museum Photo of the abandoned Pabst Brewery facility in Milwaukee, Wisconsin taken by the author in 2005 Group of women ...

The mile-long Midway at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago was the closest an amusement seeker came to a sure thing in 1893. Strolling along, one could admire the belly dancing of Fahreda ...