The World's Largest Public Domain Media Search Engine
[Elephants ivory saddle, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago Ill.]

Similar

[Elephants ivory saddle, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago Ill.]

description

Summary

56806Y U.S. Copyright Office.
Issued by Souvenir Photographic Co., Chicago.

Public domain photograph - city, downtown, New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The World's Columbian Exposition, 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 iconic centerpiece of the Fair, the large water pool, represented the long voyage Columbus took to the New World. The Exposition was an influential social and cultural event and had a profound effect on architecture, sanitation, the arts, Chicago's self-image, and American industrial optimism.

Chicago or: Chi-Town or Chitown, Chicagoland, The White City, City by the Lake, City of the Big Shoulders, City of Broad Shoulders, City of the Century, The 312, City on the Make, The City That Works, The Big Onion, City in a Garden, Hog-Butcher to the World, Beirut by the Lake, New York Done Right, Illville, I Will City, Paris on the Prairie, Sweet Home, Heart of America, The 773, The Alley Capital of America

date_range

Date

01/01/1893
place

Location

create

Source

Library of Congress
copyright

Copyright info

Public Domain

Explore more

world columbian exposition
world columbian exposition