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[World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, under construction: Landscape employees pushing wheelbarrows across body of water] – Historic Print

[World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, under construction: Landscape employees pushing wheelbarrows across body of water], [ca. 1891] — historic photograph
[World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, under construction: Landscape employees pushing wheelbarrows across body of water], [ca. 1891]. 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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Laborers pushing wheelbarrows across a stretch of water make this view of the World's Columbian Exposition unusual, since it shows the fairgrounds still being shaped rather than finished. Work on the site in Chicago's Jackson Park, where the fair would open in 1893 to mark the 400th anniversary of Columbus's arrival in the Americas, involved dredging, filling, and grading the land and its lagoons. The landscape was designed under Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, and the crews who carried out that plan were essential to the project. The photoprint is by C.D. Arnold, and its date of about 1891 comes from an unverified caption card.

Created / published[ca. 1891]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhotoprint by C.D. Arnold. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Exhibitions; Construction.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,686 × 1,358 px · prints to 6 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-157591

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