1892 was the four hundredth anniversary of Christopher Columbus’ historic voyage to the Americas and there was going to be a celebration. In a fierce competition of world-class cities including New York, St Louis, Chicago and Washington DC to host the event, President Harrison announced on 25 April 1890 that Chicago will the chosen site.
Hand colored panorama by William Henry Jackson.
Chicago Wins!
Administration Building
Agatite Street Mystery
Agricultural Building
American Bell Telephone Company & Western Electric Exhibits
American Wire Exhibit
Bicycle Exhibit
Brewery Pavilion
Brunswick Exhibit
Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show (Off Site)
Caravels at the Fair
Casino
Chicago Day
S. S. Christopher Columbus
Cold Storage Building
Colored American Day
Columbian Commemorative Coins
Columbian Intramural Railway
Columbian Liberty Bell
Concentric Circles from Chicago Map
Court of Honor and Statue of the Republic
R. T. Davis Exhibit
Dedication Parade and Ceremonies
Designing Room, Bureau of Construction
Edison’s Phonograph
Egyptian Temple
Electric Fountains
Electric Scenic Theatre
Electricity Building
Fair Firsts
Farmer’s Bridge
Ferris Wheel
Fish & Fisheries Building
Forestry Building
German Building
Grand Basin
Hawaiian Exhibit
Harlow N. Higinbotham
Horticultural Building
Irish Village
John Bull Locomotive
July 4, 1893
Krupp Gun Exhibit
Last Day of The Fair
Libbey Glass Company Exhibit
Life Saving Station and Lighthouse
Lyon & Healy Pavilion
Machinery Hall
Manhattan Day
Manufactures & Liberal Arts Building
McCormick Exhibit
Mecca Hotel
Memorial Art Palace
Midway Plaisance
Mines & Mining Building
Movable Sidewalk
Music and Choral Halls
Official Postcards
Origin of the I Will Woman
Origin of the Y Symbol
Otis Elevators Exhibit
Outside the White City
Palace of Fine Arts
Palace of Mechanic Arts
Peristyle and Quadriga
Plan of the Fair
Previous World Expositions
Puck Building
Pullman Exhibit
Self-Winding Clocks Exhibit
Singer Mfg Co “Costumes of All Nations”
Southern Colonnade
Souvenir Maps and Posters
Spectatorium
Stamps of the Columbian Exposition
Statue of the Republic
Stony Island Elevated Station
Terminal Station
Tickets to the Fair
To the Exposition by Coach
Tower of Oranges
Transportation Building
U.S. Battleship Illinois
U.S. Government Building
The Viking
Waltham Watch Exhibit
Water Girl Fountain
White Star Pavilion
Windmills Exhibit
World Premieres
Woman’s Building
Wooded Island
World’s Fair Stock Certificate
Yerkes Telescope
Chicago Tribune Art Supplements: Paintings by Charles S. Graham
Art & Architecture—The Edition of the Republic
Harper’s Weekly
Inter Ocean Illustrated Supplements
Paintings—Various Artists
State Buildings
1894 Fair Fires
Beacon of Progress
Jenison Tent Plan
The Book of the Fair Editions
Pages To Be Reassigned.
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Gallery above includes several images from this collection.
- Architects and officials of the World Columbian Exposition taken in the winter of 1892.
Included in the photograph (in order from left to right): Daniel H. Burnham, Director of Works; George B Post, Architect; Montgomery B. Pickett, Secretary of Works; Henry Van Brunt, Architect; Frank D. Millet, Director of Decoration; Maitland Armstrong, Artist; Col. Edmund Rice, Commander of the Columbian Guard; Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Sculptor; Henry Sargent Codman, Landscape Architect; George Willoughby Maynard, Artist; Charles F. McKim, Architect; Ernest R. Graham, Assistant Director of Works; Dion Geraldine, General Superintendent. Mr. Millet went down with the Titanic.
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