Chicago’s 1893 World’s Fair: The Frontier and the Future.

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Chicago’s 1893 World’s Fair: The Frontier and the Future

American Historian Frederick Jackson Turner

John Gast, “Spirit of the Frontier,” 1872

Building the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair

Manufactures and Liberal Arts Center, Chicago World’s Fair, 1893

The “Water Gate” entryway to the Fair

View of the “White City” of the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair

Electric fans on display; electric passenger train circles the grounds

Electric lighting illuminates the “White City”

“The Great Fire at Chicago,” 1871 “Chinatown,” Wasp (S.F.), 1882

Immigrant marketplace, Manhattan, New York, ca. 1890

World’s Fair Exhibition Promenade

Chicago, ca. 1890

Polish tenements, Chicago, ca. 1890

Children playing near dead horse, Chicago, ca. 1890

Police raid a railroad laborers’ meeting at Turner Hall, Chicago, 1877

Haymarket Square “Riot,” Chicago, 1886

View of the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair

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