Season Pass Tickets
Columbian Exposition, 1893
Chicago Day (9 Oct 1873) and Manhattan Day (21 Oct 1873) Tickets
Columbian Exposition, 1893
On Manhattan Day, Manhattan’s Representatives were treated with royal hospitality by the citizens of Chicago
No exhibit to the Fair is to be compared with Chicago itself. Built and rebuilt in little more than half a century, it stands to-day as truly one of the wonders of the worlds as the Pyramids of Egypt. As the Exposition draws to a close amid signs of a popular appreciation justify its due: ‘We congratulate you, citizens of Chicago.’ You have made us more proud than ever to be Americans.
Who can say, after witnessing such displays of brotherhood, that Manhattan Day was not the greatest day of a succession of great days in the history of the World’s Columbian Exposition, for the same reason that forbearance and friendliness are greater than rivalry and envy.
Seth Low, President of Columbia College via The New York Times, 22 October 1893
I purchased a wood frame and [partial] brick home in Chicago that was completed in 1893. Along with the house came an entrance ticket to the Exposition, mounted on an original piece of wood that was found and removed during a renovation.
I felt compelled to leave the ticket with the house when I sold it, but while reading The Devil in the White City, I sure wished I had held onto It!
The home is at 5119 North Claremont.