Opening of the World's Fair / The Knapp Co. lith., N.Y. – Antique Print
(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 antique lithograph captures Opening of the World's Fair / The Knapp Co. lith., N.Y. in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Opening of the World's Fair / The Knapp Co. lith., N.Y.
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Cleveland, then serving his second nonterm-consecutive stint as president, appears alongside the exposition's buildings, a pairing that signals how closely the federal government tied itself to the Chicago fair. On May 1, 1893, he opened the World's Columbian Exposition from Washington by sending an electrical signal that set the machinery running in Jackson Park. The lithograph was printed by the Knapp Company of New York around 1893, and its copyright deposit suggests it was sold as a souvenir. The fair's white neoclassical buildings, later nicknamed the White City, gave the event its lasting image.
| Created / published | c1893. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Lithographs Color 1890-1900. |
| Notes | 51630Y U.S. Copyright Office. |
| Subjects | Cleveland, Grover,--1837-1908. World's Columbian Exposition--(1893 :--Chicago, Ill.)--Buildings. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,148 × 1,458 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217285 |
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