Fisheries Building from Wooded Island
Summary
35936Y 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.
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world columbian exposition
chicago ill
buildings
exhibition buildings
illinois
chicago
card photographs
photographic prints
chicago lawn chicago ill
fisheries
wooded
island
konstanz germany
19th century
lot 3310
photo
wooded island
ultra high resolution
high resolution
fishing
library of congress
Date
01/01/1893
in collections
Location
Source
Library of Congress
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Public Domain