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World's Columbian Exhibition of 1893 in Chicago
Photographs from Shepp's World's Fair Photographed, Chicago and Philadelphia, 1893, and from Glimpses of the World's Fair Through a Camera, Chicago, 1893.

Overall
 

Court of Honor

Court of Honor

R.M. Hunt: Administration
Building

plan - low res

plan - high res

plan of the midway 

Bull and Peristyle

Charles Atwood: 
Peristyle

from the top of the 
Transportation Building

View from the N. 
end of the Lagoon

View from northeast

North from bridge s. of 
Horticultural Building

Viking Ship

Replicas of Columbus' 
Caravels
 

  1. Court of Honor, General View. Rear Distance: Administration Building by Richard Morris Hunt, architect.
  2. Court of Honor, General View. Rear Distance: Administration Building by Richard Morris Hunt, architect.
  3. Administration Building. Richard Morris Hunt, architect.
  4. Ground plan of exhibition. Daniel Burnham & John Wellborn Root, architects, with F.L. Olmstead, landscape architect.
  5. View from the top of the Transportation Building.
  6. Statue of the Bull, bull by E.C. Potter, figure by Daniel Chester French.  At rear, French's statue of the Republic and Peristyle by Charles Atwood.
  7. Peristyle Charles Atwood, architect.
  8. View from the N. end of the Lagoon
  9. View from Northeast
  10. View from bridge south of Horticulture Building.
  11. View from north end of the lagoon.  Fisheries building by Cobb to the right.
  12. Viking Ship.
  13. Replicas of Columbus' Caravels.
Exhibit Buildings
 
 

L. Sullivan:Transportation
Building
L. Sullivan: Transportation
Building		  

Sophie Hayden: Woman's
Building

Sophie Hayden: Woman's
Building
  

Charles Atwood: Fine
Arts Building

Charles Atwood: Fine
Arts Building

  

W.J. Edbrooke: Government 
Building

Van Brunt & Howe:
Interior of Electricity 
Building

WLB Jenney & WB Mundie:
Horticultural Building

Peabody & Stearns: 
Machinery Hall

Peabody & Stearns: 
Machinery Hall

Henry Ives Cobb: 
Fisheries Building
  1. Transportation BuildingLouis Sullivan, architect.
  2. Transportation Building, "Golden Doorway" Louis Sullivan, architect.
  3. Women's Building Sophie Hayden, architect.
  4. Women's Building Sophie Hayden, architect.
  5. Fine Arts Building Charles Atwood, architect. Now the Museum of Science and Industry. Rebuilt in permanent form 1926.
  6. Fine Arts Building Charles Atwood, architect. Now the Museum of Science and Industry. Rebuilt in permanent form 1926.
  7. Government Building.
  8. Interior of Electricity Building.
  9. Machinery Hall.  Peabody & Stearns, architects.
  10. Machinery Hall. Peabody & Stearns, architects.
  11. Fisheries Building.  Henry Ives Cobb, architect.
  12. Horticultural Building.  William LeBaron Jenney and W.B. Mundie, architects.  Dome 180' diameter, 114' high.
State and Foreign Buildings
 

McKim, Mead, & White:
NY State Building

Peabody & Stearns:
Massachusetts 
State Building 
(copy of Th. Hancock
House)

Peabody & Stearns:
Massachusetts 
State Building

Thos. P. Lonsdale:
Pennsylvania State 
Building (copy of 
Independence Hall)

Virginia State Building
(copy of Mt. Vernon)
Indiana State 
Building

Ho-o-den, Japan

Ho-o-den, Japan
Ho-o-den, Japan

Ho-o-den, Japan

 

French Pavilion

Turkish Pavilion

Great Britain Pavilion
  1. New York State Building. McKim, Mead & White, architects.
  2. Massachusetts State Building. Replica of Thomas Hancock house, Boston, 1737 (demolished 1863).
  3. Massachusetts State Building. Replica of Thomas Hancock house, Boston, 1737 (demolished 1863).
  4. Pennsylvania State Building (copy of Independence Hall)
  5. Virginia State Building (copy of Mt. Vernon)
  6. Indiana State Building.
  7. Ho-o-den, Japanese Building
  8. Ho-o-den, Japanese Building
  9. Ho-o-den, Japanese Building
  10. Ho-o-den, Japanese Building.  From a postcard.
  11. French Pavilion
  12. Turkish Pavilion
  13. Great Britain Pavilion
Ethnography Section
 
 

Samoan village

Samoan village
 

Aztec Ruins and 
Electric Theater

Aztec Temple

Aztec Temple
(Yucatan)
  1. Samoan Village.
  2. Samoan Village.
  3. New England Kitchen.
  4. Aztec Ruins and Electric Theater.
  5. Aztec Temple.
  6. Aztec Temple (Yucatan)
Other Exhibits and Facilities
 

New England Kitchen

Movable sidewalk
Public comfort 
Building
  1. Moving walkway. Experimental; 5 cents per ride.
  2. Public Comfort Building.


Midway
 

Midway

Ferris Wheel

Ferris wheel

  1. Midway, General View Ferris Wheel and Captive Balloon ride.
  2. Midway, General View Ferris Wheel by George Washington Ferris.
  3. Ferris Wheel by George Washington Ferris.

Additional Information about the 1893 Fair:

World's Fair of 1893
Architects and the Fair: MIT grads go to Chicago
World's Fair of 1893, Chicago
World's Columbian Exposition: Idea, Experience, Aftermath
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