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[Exposition grounds, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago] – Antique Print

[Exposition grounds, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago], [1893] — historic photograph
[Exposition grounds, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago], [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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[Exposition grounds, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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[Exposition grounds, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago]

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Rather than a single landmark, this view takes in the grounds of the World's Columbian Exposition, the 1893 fair held in Jackson Park on Chicago's South Side. The fair marked the 400th anniversary of Columbus's arrival in the Americas, and its planners, led by architect Daniel Burnham and landscape designer Frederick Law Olmsted, laid out a lakeside campus of large classical halls coated in a plaster-based material that gave the complex its nickname, the White City. The photograph comes from the Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection, and Johnston was one of many photographers who recorded the fair's buildings and grounds.

Created / published[1893]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1890-1900.
NotesFrances Benjamin Johnston Collection.
SubjectsWorld's Columbian Exposition--(1893 :--Chicago, Ill.)--Buildings. Exhibitions--Illinois--Chicago--1890-1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,286 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-181540

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