Expositions graphics collection, 1876-1900.

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Expositions graphics collection, 1876-1900.

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This portion of the collection contains articles and images of world's fairs and expositions including 8 Centennial Exposition, Philadelphia, 1876; two Atlanta Exposition, 1895, Woman's building and women organizers; one Paris Exposition, 1900, article with photo of Mrs. Potter Palmer (incomplete); sixteen Chicago World's Fair, 1891-1893 (Columbian Exposition) including color satirical cartoons from Puck magazine, and The dream city, a portfolio of photographic views of the World's Columbian Exposition educational art series vol. 3, no. 3 (St. Louis, Mo.: N.D. Thompson, 1893). Also includes cover boards for L'exposition universelle, 1889.

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Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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Exposition Universelle (1900 : Paris, France)

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Exposition Universelle of 1889 (Paris)

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World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)

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The World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World’s Fair, was organized in celebration of the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s landing in America. The fairgrounds, open from May 1, 1893 until October 30, 1893, were designed by Frederick Law Olmstead and covered more than 630 acres in Jackson Park and the Midway Plaisance. Daniel Burnham oversaw the construction of nearly 200 new buildings for the fair, most of which were designed in the Beaux-Arts style. 27 million peo...

Marshall, Alice K.

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Cotton States Exposition 1895 Atlanta, Ga.

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Centenial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.)

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