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1893 Chicago Worlds Fair Book &
Shepps Worlds Fair Photographed on CD |
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Your chance to own a rare copy of the 1893 Chicago Worlds fair Souvenir Book. Over 280 pages, depicting all aspects of this glorious event - Souvenir guide, shows, photos, directories, and reports, pertaining to the 1893 World Columbian Exposition held in Jackson Park on Chicago's south side.
PLUS, the 1893 Shepps World Fair Photographed, 540 pages, over 250 Full page photos of this historic event, complete with a description of each photo, giving you a real taste of actually being their!
The World's Columbian Exposition (also called The Chicago World's Fair), a World's Fair, was held in Chicago in 1893, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World. Chicago bested New York City, Washington, D.C. and St. Louis, Missouri, for the honor of hosting the fair. The fair had a profound effect on architecture, the arts, Chicago's self-image, and American industrial optimism. The Chicago Columbian Exposition was, in large part, designed by Daniel Burnham and Frederick Law Olmsted. It was the prototype of what Burnham and his colleagues thought a city should be. It was designed to follow Beaux Arts principles of design, namely, European Classical Architecture principles based on symmetry and balance.
The Exposition covered more than 600 acres (2.4 km2), featuring nearly 200 new buildings of classical architecture, canals and lagoons, and people and cultures from around the world. Over 27 million people (equivalent to about half the U.S. population) attended the Exposition during its six-month run. Its scale and grandeur far exceeded the other world fairs, and it became a symbol of then-emerging American Exceptionalism, much in the same way that the Great Exhibition became a symbol of the Victorian era United Kingdom.
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