World's Columbian Exposition
The World's Columbian Exposition (the official shortened name for the World's Fair: Columbian Exposition, also known as The Chicago World's Fair) was a World's Fair held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' arrival in the New World in 1492.
Chicago won the honor of hosting the fair and defeated New York City; Washington, D.C.; and St. Louis of hosting the fair.
The fair was an influential social and cultural event. At the fair many inventors such as Thomas Edison, Milton S. Hershey, Nikola Tesla, George Ferris, and Marshall Field were there. Many other famous people were there too such as President Grover Cleveland, Mark Twain, Buffalo Bill, Sitting Bull, Scott Joplin, Mayor Carter Harrison, Sr., and Daniel Burnham.
The exposition was where many famous inventions were first presented and many modern items such as the Ferris wheel, Quaker Oats, Hershey's, the Frontier thesis was presented, and the United States Mint, in the United States of America, offered its first commemorative coins.
World's Columbian Exposition Media
An advertisement for the Exposition, depicting a portrait of Christopher Columbus
Thomas Moran – Chicago World's Fair – Brooklyn Museum painting of the Administration Building
The regional vote breakdown of the eighth World's Fair location selection ballot in the United States House of Representatives
An aerial view of the exposition at Jackson Park in a print by F.A. Brockhaus
Chicago Mayor Carter Harrison Sr. delivers a speech to crowd during "American Cities Day" at the exposition on October 28, 1893. Harrison would be assassinated later that day.
“Columbian Exposition” of 1892 book cover art
The original Ferris Wheel at the 1893 World Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago - Swiss section (left) and Russian section (right), Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building.*The photo was on a glass slide, that my father had developed into an image. I digitized it. The photographer was my great grandfather who had a photography shop on 2029 Wabash Avenue, in Chicago.
The German pavilion, which remained standing after the Expo
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