fcsarch 30 world fairs: philadelphia & chicago (1876 & 1893)
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World Fairs: Philadelphia & ChicagoTRANSCRIPT
CRYSTAL PALACE, London (1851) Joseph Paxton, reconstruction with landscaping
Crystal Palace
PHILADELPHIA CENTENNIAL, birds eye view
Centennial Main Building. May
10, 1876opens to
the public.
first day 186,672 visitors.
unloading exhibits for main exhibition hall
installation in main exhibition hall, Henry Pettit and Joseph Wilson, architects
The Corliss Engine; 1400 horsepower, 40 tall, 200+ tons
Horticultural Hall, old postcard, HJ Schwarzmann, architect
Memorial Hall/Art Gallery
Opening Day
Catalogue
Exhibition Hall
Agricultural Building. James Windrim, architect
Agricultural building under construction
Agricultural Building, interior
Women’s Building
Chinese exhibit: inspecting a vase
"Food Fishes of the Sea" US Gov't building.
PARIS, 1889
CHICAGO
World's Columbian Exposition Chicago, 1893
Daniel Brurnham & Frederick Law Olmstead
World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893 ground plan, Daniel Burnham & John Wellborn Root, architects, with F.L. Olmsted, landscape architect.
Old plan (J. Howe)
assembled architects, artists, and officials, May 1891 (D. Burnham and G. B. Post at left, H. Van Brunt leaning with cane, A. St. Gaudens 6th from right, C. McKim
3rd from right
Birds Eye View
Ferris Wheel
Ferris Wheel
panoramic photo from behind lagoon, showing train tracks
Panoramic detail -- left
Panoramic detail -- right
Transportation Building, 1891-1893, Adler & Sullivan, architects, interior
Court
Court
view toward the southern colonnade across the Grand Plaza. At left, the Agriculture Building; at right, the Palace of Mechanic
Arts.
Court
Court
Court
Court
Court’s fountain
Painting by Theodore Robinson
Grand Basin
Post card
MSI
Transportation Building, Louis Sullivan’s response
Transportation Building, "Golden Doorway," Louis Sullivan, architect. [J. Howe]Detail of entry