In 1893 Chicago was the site of the World's Columbian Exposition. It was a world's fair to celebrate the 400th anniversary of ...

Anthropology in a changing America : interpreting the Chicago "triumph" of Frank Hamilton Cushing / David R. Wilcox -- A visual interlude : popular images of anthropology and its subjects at the fair ...

Other editions published 1893-94 with varying titles: Columbian album, The World's fair album, Columbian Exposition photographed, and Das columbische weltansstellungs-album.

The 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition has begun, and people dressed in their Victorian finest are headed into the south portico of the fair’s Palace of Fine Arts, a building that looks as if ...

Inventors like Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla competed in a bidding war to determine whose patents on electricity would light the 1893 World’s Fair, and on July 25 author Kristen ...

The crowds who were already dazzled by the White City of the World's Fair were absolutely dumbstruck by the engineering marvel created for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition by George W. Ferris.

The founder of Freedman Seating Co., headquartered on the West Side, exhibited its seats for horse-drawn carriages at the 1893 World's Fair. Today its seats are in trucks used by UPS, FedEx and ...