![[Japanese carpenters and stone masons in distinctive native attire starting to construct Japanese Pavilion at World Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893: posed on site of construction]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE4OTIvMDEvMDEvamFwYW5lc2UtY2FycGVudGVycy1hbmQtc3RvbmUtbWFzb25zLWluLWRpc3RpbmN0aXZlLW5hdGl2ZS1hdHRpcmUtc3RhcnRpbmctNjQwLmpwZw%3D%3D/320/268/jpg "[Japanese carpenters and stone masons in distinctive native attire starting to construct Japanese Pavilion at World Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893: posed on site of construction]")
[Japanese carpenters and stone masons in distinctive native attire starting to construct Japanese Pavilion at World Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893: posed on site of construction]
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Caption card tracings: Construction; Pile drivers; Exhibitions 1893; Japanese in U.S.; Shelf.
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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01/01/1892
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Library of Congress
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