Caption
The Midway, looking west, View of a street with national pavilions and a Ferris wheel at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, page, photomechanical print, number: 'Plate 97', 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 132 mm x width 190 mm, world fair, world exhibition, giant wheel, Ferris wheel, World's Columbian Exposition, A wide promenade filled with people walking and standing beneath a bright sky, with many individuals wearing long coats and hats and some holding umbrellas; on the left a series of ornate buildings and pavilions with decorative facades and domes rise along the street, and on the right a tall Ferris wheel structure is visible behind a row of tall slender poles and lamp posts, with benches and a man leaning on a cane near the foreground edge.
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Photo12/Liszt Collection
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