Caption

View of a street with national pavilions and a Ferris wheel at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, The Midway, looking east from Dahomey village, page, photomechanical print, number: 'Plate 107', photographer: Charles Dudley Arnold, Chicago, photographer: HD Higinbotham, clichémaker: anonymous, 1893, Charles Dudley Arnold, HD Higinbotham, photographer, clichémaker, North America, Illinois, paper, collotype, photogravure, height 134 mm x width 190 mm, world fair, world exhibition, giant wheel, Ferris wheel, World's Columbian Exposition, A crowded outdoor scene with many people walking and standing along a wide pathway, several holding umbrellas and wearing hats and early twentieth-century clothing, a person seated on a bench beside a baby carriage, a tall Ferris wheel structure visible in the background near ornamental lamp posts, a row of buildings and wooden viewing platforms with railings and flags flying from poles, trees behind the structures, and a freestanding carved wooden panel leaning against a thatched wall.

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Photo12/Liszt Collection

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LZT26B01_359

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Keywords

View street national pavilions Ferris wheel World's Columbian Exposition Chicago 1893 Midway looking east Dahomey village page photomechanical print number Plate 107 photographer Charles Dudley Arnold HD Higinbotham clichémaker anonymous North America Illinois paper collotype photogravure height 134 mm x width 190 mm world fair world exhibition giant wheel crowded outdoor scene people walking standing wide pathway several holding umbrellas wearing hats early twentieth-century clothing person seated bench beside baby carriage tall Ferris wheel structure visible background near ornamental lamp posts row buildings wooden viewing platforms railings flags flying poles trees structures freestanding carved panel leaning thatched wall