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1893 – Chicago, Illinois, United States – World's Columbian Exposition [13] – Palace of Fine Arts and the World's Congress Auxiliary Building; 1893 – New York City, United States – World's Fair Prize Winners' Exposition (1893) 1894 – San Francisco, California, United States – California Midwinter International Exposition of 1894 [13]
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:
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]
Hyde Park on a map of Los Angeles County published October 1893 for the World's Columbian Exposition North is at the top of this map from the Los Angeles Times, August 20, 1916. A Santa Fe Railroad track runs northeast-southwest through Hyde Park.
"Toluca" on a map of Los Angeles County published October 1893 for the World's Columbian Exposition. Lankershim station opened 1886 as a Southern Pacific depot called Toluca and later functioned as a Pacific Electric station until 1952. It now houses a coffee shop across from the current NoHo station.
Carmel Valley pumpkins (1907), Los Angeles County Museum of Art Cactus Garden, ... World's Columbian Expo (Chicago), 1893. California Midwinter International Expo, 1894.
She obtained another patent, Nov. 6, 1894, on a new method for impounding debris and storing water. She was awarded two medals for these inventions by the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois, in 1893. In 1918 she appeared before the congressional committee on water power and urged the government to store the floodwaters of the ...
News of the World's Columbian Exposition to be held in 1893, in Chicago, Illinois, drew Ferris to the city. In 1891, the Exposition's directors issued a challenge to American engineers to conceive of a monument for the fair to surpass the Eiffel Tower, the great structure of the Paris International Exposition of 1889. [9]