CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Columbian Exposition, or 1893 World's Fair, is still considered by many to be Chicago's greatest entertainment achievement. The Union League Club is bringing some of those old ...
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 ...
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The Incredible Story Of The 1893 World's Fair
In 1893 Chicago was the site of the World's Columbian Exposition. It was a world's fair to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492. Yes, there was a ...
Introduction: The Chicago Fair and American anthropology in 1893 / Curtis M. Hinsley and David R. Wilcox -- Essay 1. Anthropology as education and entertainment : Frederic Ward Putnam at the World's ...
The brownie, inspired by the Gilded Age socialite Bertha Palmer, was created as part of the preparations for Chicago's 1893 World's Fair.
During the most devastating financial crisis our country has ever faced — The Great Depression — Chicago held a huge, extravagant event. The Elmhurst History Museum captures that 1933-34 World’s Fair ...
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