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World's Fair, the great ferris wheel, 280 feet high, Chicago, Ill. – Antique Wall Art

World's Fair, the great ferris wheel, 280 feet high, Chicago, Ill., c1893. — historic photograph
World's Fair, the great ferris wheel, 280 feet high, Chicago, Ill., c1893.. 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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This rare historic photograph captures World's Fair, the great ferris wheel, 280 feet high, Chicago, Ill. in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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World's Fair, the great ferris wheel, 280 feet high, Chicago, Ill.

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Few attractions at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition drew as much notice as the great Ferris wheel, which this stereograph labels as 280 feet high. Engineer George W. G. Ferris designed it as an American answer to the Eiffel Tower, and its enclosed cars lifted riders above the Midway Plaisance, offering sweeping views of the fairgrounds. Stereo cards like this one, copyrighted by B.L. Singley, were sold to be viewed through a hand viewer that fused two slightly offset photographs into a single image with depth.

Created / publishedc1893.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
Subjects34280Y U.S. Copyright Office. Stereo copyrighted by B.L. Singley. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Ferris wheels; Exhibitions--Illinois; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,384 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-128134

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