World Fairs: Philadelphia & Chicago

1. CRYSTAL PALACE, London (1851) Joseph Paxton, reconstruction with landscaping

2. Crystal Palace

3. PHILADELPHIA CENTENNIAL, birds eye view

4. Centennial Main Building. May 10, 1876 opens to the public. first day 186,672 visitors.

5. unloading exhibits for main exhibition hall

6. installation in main exhibition hall, Henry Pettit and Joseph Wilson, architects

7. The Corliss Engine; 1400 horsepower, 40 tall, 200+ tons

8. Horticultural Hall, old postcard, HJ Schwarzmann, architect

9. Memorial Hall/Art Gallery

10. Opening Day

11. Catalogue

12. Exhibition Hall

13. Agricultural Building. James Windrim, architect

14. Agricultural building under construction

15. Agricultural Building, interior

16. Women’s Building

17. Chinese exhibit: inspecting a vase

18. "Food Fishes of the Sea" US Gov't building.

19. PARIS, 1889

20. CHICAGO World's Columbian Exposition Chicago, 1893 Daniel Brurnham & Frederick Law Olmstead

21. World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893 ground plan, Daniel Burnham & John Wellborn Root, architects, with F.L. Olmsted, landscape architect. Old plan (J. Howe)

22. 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

23. Birds Eye View

24. Ferris Wheel

25. Ferris Wheel

26. panoramic photo from behind lagoon, showing train tracks

27. Panoramic detail -- left

28. Panoramic detail -- right

29. Transportation Building, 1891-1893, Adler & Sullivan, architects, interior

30. Court

31. Court

32. view toward the southern colonnade across the Grand Plaza. At left, the Agriculture Building; at right, the Palace of Mechanic Arts.

33. Court

34. Court

35. Court

36. Court

37. Court’s fountain

38. Painting by Theodore Robinson

39. Grand Basin

40. Post card

41. MSI

42. Transportation Building, Louis Sullivan’s response

43. Transportation Building, "Golden Doorway," Louis Sullivan, architect. [J. Howe] Detail of entry