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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America: The World's Columbian Exposition

Official Guide to the World's Columbian Exposition

Guide to the World's Columbian Exposition by John Joseph Flinn (1893)

1893 World's Columbian Exposition Benjamin Franklin Ticket

Columbia Welcomes All Nations

Article on the Opening of the Great Fair from the May 2, 1893 Poughkeepsie Daily Eagle 

The World's Columbian Exposition

Rand, McNally & Co.'s standard map of the grounds, adapted into an advertisement for the Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing Company

Birds-eye View of the World's Columbian Exposition

View of the Columbian Exposition

Ground Plan of Columbian Exposition

The Buildings of the World's Columbian Exposition

Lagoon at the World's Columbian Exposition

The Administration Building

Statue of the Republic, or 'Old Mary', overlooking the Grand Basin

The State Buildings -- View each of them here at Chicagology.com

The Agricultural Buidling

The Midway

The Transportation Building

The Women's Building

US Government Building

Fine Arts Building

Colombian Fountain

Fisheries Building

Horticultural Building

Machinery Hall

The Golden Door of the Transportation Building 

Music and Choral Halls

The Japanese Pavilion on the Wooded Island

Mines and Mining Building

Electricity Building

Statue of the Republic, or 'Big Mary'

Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building

Construction of the World's Fair

Construction of Manufacture's Building

Assembly of the Japanese Pavillion

Assembly of the Japanese Pavillion

Construction of Women's Building

Construction of Administration Building

Construction of the Ferris Wheel

Construction of the Mines Building

Fire Engine on Grounds During Construction

The World's Fair at Night

Head of Adult Services