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this is an old painting of a city square

“Sell the cookstove if necessary and come. You must see the Fair.” — Author Hamlin Garland in a letter to his parents Whether sparked by tales of ancestors who traveled to the great fair from s...

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an advertisement for the ferris wheel in chicago, illinois from 1932 - 1950's

Postcard with a lithograph of a Ferris Wheel from Chicago's World Columbian Exposition of 1893. I bought this card when our family visited Chicago in 2018. Sent to a Postcrossing member in the United States.

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a painting of people walking around in front of a large building with a dome on top

The Greatest Crowd This is Part 13 of our series “Opening Day of the World’s Fair,” which explores the events of May 1, 1893, at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The full series can be found here. They saw

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six postcards with different images of buildings and water
Set Of 10 Columbian Exposition Post Cards
Vintage World's Fair Postcards
Columbian Exposition Postcards

Set of 10 different Columbian Exposition Post Cards of Chicago, Illinois. Great! The World's Columbian Exposition (also known as the Chicago World's Fair) was a world's fair held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492. The centerpiece of the Fair, held in Jackson Park, was a large water pool representing the voyage Columbus took to the New World. Chicago had won the right to host the fair over...

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an old postcard shows the statue of lady justice in front of the state capitol building

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

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