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World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois, 1893 – Vintage Print

World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois, 1893, 1893 — historic photograph
World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois, 1893, 1893. Historic photograph from the Chicago collection.

(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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World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois, 1893 comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois, 1893

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Canals and lagoons shaped the layout of the World's Columbian Exposition, and this view records one of the waterways winding past the fair's exhibition buildings in Jackson Park. The 1893 fair, held to mark the 400th anniversary of Columbus's arrival in the Americas, opened that May and drew millions of visitors to its planned "White City" of neoclassical halls, designed under Daniel Burnham and with landscape by Frederick Law Olmsted. The photograph comes from the collection of Frances Benjamin Johnston, a Washington photographer who documented the exposition and whose work is now held by the Library of Congress.

Created / published1893
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1890-1900.
NotesFrances Benjamin Johnston Collection.
SubjectsWorld's Columbian Exposition--(1893 :--Chicago, Ill.) Canals--Illinois--Chicago--1890-1900. Exhibitions--Illinois--Chicago--1890-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,136 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-165623

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