Chicago worlds fair

THE CITY OF WONDERS A SOUVENIR OF THE WORLD'S FAIR by Mary Catherine Crowley (1894)

The Tesla/Westinghouse display at Electricity Hall. Tesla Polyphase Alternating Current System.

To see the animated image scroll down to the first comment (below) or view original size. Details and History The Wikimedia Commons offers a multitude of historical images with no restrictions on use. This 1893 B. W. Kilburn stereoview, shows The wonder of the age, Midway Plaisance, World's Columbian Exposition. The eponymous designer of the wheel, George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr., constructed it as a "tallest ever" landmark for the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago. This wheel was…

Chicago World's Fair 1893: World's Columbian Exposition, Interior of Electricity Building. #1893 World's Columbian Exposition

PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR. AN ELABORATE COLLECTION OF COLORED VIEWS Page 15 A VIEW IN MIDWAY PLAISANCE.—A city in itself was the Midway, picturesque certainly, and educational as well, however meretricious some of its droll features. It was the playground of the multitude and they learned much while they

Edison Tower of Light - "A tall shaft extending almost to the roof, with a colonnade about its base, the whole studded with miniature incandescent lamps arranged in geometrical figures and in red, orange, and purple."

Chicago, IL General Exhibit Group Chicago World's Fair

None of the thousands of workers who built the fairgrounds of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition ever got a souvenir insignia apparel, but that doesn't mean you can't! The Walt Disney Birthplace project offers a "World's Columbian Exposition Construction Team" design as a T-shirt, long-sleeve T, and hoodie:

These 78 photographs of the 1893 Columbian Exposition World’s Fair in Chicago are engravings of the architectural wonders built for the event.