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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.
Hace 6 días · World’s Columbian Exposition, fair held in 1893 in Chicago, Illinois, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s voyage to America. The chief planner was the Chicago architect Daniel H. Burnham. The classical facades of the fair’s ‘White City’ were electrically lighted at night.
World’s Fair. that drew more than 27 million visitors from all over the world. The official reason for the Fair was to celebrate the four hundredth anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the Americas, but unofficially, it served as an opportunity to reflect on the state of the nation.
6 de dic. de 2023 · The World’s Columbian Exposition: Introduction. by Dr. Kimberly Kutz Elliott. This is the first in a series of three essays on the World’s Columbian Exposition. To learn more about the White City and main fairgrounds, check out the second essay. To learn more about the Midway, read the third essay.
Map of Fairgrounds, 1893. Organized to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Columbus's landfall in the New World, the World's Columbian Exposition became a defining moment in Chicago's history and the history of the United States as a whole. When the World's Columbian Exposition opened, only 22 years had passed since the Chicago Fire of 1871 ;
The World's Columbian Exposition both reflected the dominant white theories of race and evolution of its day and reproduced them as spectacle, suggesting to its 27 million visitors that all the people of the world were on a continuum of civilization.
No Small Plans. How did the 1893 World’s Fair impact Chicago and its architecture? World, meet Chicago. The World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 was the first world’s fair held in Chicago. Carving out some 600 acres of Frederick Law Olmsted’s Jackson Park, the exposition was a major milestone.
