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The World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair, was a world's fair held in Chicago from May 5 to October 31, 1893, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492. [1]
Location Terminal station (also referred to as Union Depot on some maps) was a temporary train station serving the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois . [ 1 ]
The original Ferris Wheel, sometimes also referred to as the Chicago Wheel, [2] [3] was designed and built by George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. as the centerpiece of the Midway at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. Since its construction, many other Ferris wheels have been constructed that were patterned after it.
Chicago hosted the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, a world's fair commemorating the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World. Artists from the United States and 19 foreign countries exhibited at the Exposition. A complete list of the artists and works exhibited in the Palace of Fine Arts can be found here:
Jackson Park is a 551.5-acre (223.2 ha) urban park on the shore of Lake Michigan on the South Side of Chicago.Straddling the Hyde Park, Woodlawn, and South Shore neighborhoods, the park was designed in 1871 by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux and remodeled in 1893 to serve as the site of the World's Columbian Exposition.
Art Institute of Chicago: Destroyed 1949 The Republic: 1893 and 1918 A one third sized version of the 65 foot tall statue was placed in Jackson Park, Chicago in 1918: French and Potter (French created the human figures and Potter the animals.) Columbian Quadriga: staff c. 1892–1893 A modified version of this was formed of copper in 1906 as
English: Columbian Fountain (Fredk. McMonnies) Identifier: worldscolumbiane02whit (find matches) Title: The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893 Year: 1893 Authors: White, Trumbull, 1868-1941 Igleheart, William, (from old catalog) joint author
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