Griffin MSI lets online visitors experience 1893 World's Fair — and more The free searchable database will feature 7,000 pieces from the museum’s 35,000-item collection. About 1,000 images ...

Other editions published 1893-94 with varying titles: Columbian album, The World's fair album, Columbian Exposition photographed, and Das columbische weltansstellungs-album.

The grounds of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Ill., are shown in May, 1893. The first ferris wheel, which carries 1,400 persons 250 feet into the air, is one of the biggest ...

Join Chicago architect Daniel Burnham, director of works for the 1893 Columbian Exposition, for a relaxing day at the fair with the Glen Ellyn Historical Society. Experience the grandeur of the ...

Object Details editor Hinsley, Curtis M. Wilcox, David R. 1944- Subject World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) History Contents Introduction: The Chicago Fair and American anthropology in ...

The year is 1893. Chicago is hosting the world. At the World’s Columbian Exposition, over 65,000 exhibits are strewn over 630 acres of the Midway Plaisance and Jackson Park. Structures erected ...

Inventors like Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla competed in a bidding war to determine whose patents on electricity would light the 1893 World’s Fair, and on July 25 author Kristen ...