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

2 American Historian Frederick Jackson Turner

3 John Gast, “Spirit of the Frontier,” 1872

4 Building the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair

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

6 The “Water Gate” entryway to the Fair

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

8 Electric fans on display; electric passenger train circles the grounds

9 Electric lighting illuminates the “White City”

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

11 Immigrant marketplace, Manhattan, New York, ca. 1890

12 World’s Fair Exhibition Promenade

13 Chicago, ca. 1890

14 Polish tenements, Chicago, ca. 1890

15 Children playing near dead horse, Chicago, ca. 1890

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

17 Haymarket Square “Riot,” Chicago, 1886

18 View of the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair


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