World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Ill.: Long boat on Venetian canal – Vintage Print
![World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Ill.: Long boat on Venetian canal, [1892-93] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/2c/2c1f4488ac6b-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare historic photograph captures World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Ill.: Long boat on Venetian canal in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Ill.: Long boat on Venetian canal
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A long boat moving along a Venetian-style canal sets this view apart from the fair's many views of its grand buildings. The World's Columbian Exposition opened in Chicago in 1893 in Jackson Park, marking the 400th anniversary of Columbus's voyage, and its planners built a temporary city of white classical buildings that earned it the nickname "White City." Its lagoons and canals were meant to evoke Venice, and gondola-style boats carried visitors past the palaces. Frances Benjamin Johnston, a photographer who documented the fair, is credited with the image, which is dated to about 1892 to 1893.
| Created / published | [1892-93] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Caption card tracings: Exhibitions--Illinois; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,686 × 1,369 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-128139 |
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