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World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Ill.: a pavilion – Vintage Wall Art

World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Ill.: a pavilion, [1892-93] — historic photograph
World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Ill.: a pavilion, [1892-93]. Historic photograph from the World's Fairs 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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A window into the past: World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Ill.: a pavilion, preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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The record names a pavilion at the World's Columbian Exposition, the Chicago fair that opened in 1893 to mark the 400th anniversary of Columbus reaching the Americas. The title does not say which building is shown, so the picture is best read as one of the many structures that lined the fair's grounds in Jackson Park. Frances Benjamin Johnston, a Washington photographer who documented the exposition's architecture and exhibits, made the series this print belongs to. Its neoclassical "White City" buildings, set around a lagoon and built largely of staff, gave the fair its nickname and shaped American ideas about civic design for decades.

Created / published[1892-93]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesTitle and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Caption card tracings: Exhibitions; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,686 × 1,355 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-128562

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