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This metal was created by the committee of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. On one side it reads "Panama-Pacific International Exposition San Francisco Metal of Award MCMXV [1915]". The building in the middle of the words appears to be…

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- Calen McGee

This is a matchbox made of plated tin with an image of the Agricultural building of the Chicago World's Fair from 1893 on the front. It is curved on the one side where it reads "Wax Vestas Made in England" . A vesta is a smaller, English version of a…

This is an article from Chicago Tribune, Electricity at the Fair, broadcasting the electrified Chicago World Fair in 1893. Chicago Tribune is a newspaper media worldwide. There is a specific article introducing the electricity in the Chicago Fair,…

Ogden's illustration is of passengers on one of the two Iron Piers built in 1878 on Coney Island. Here the illustration attempts to capture the sheer amount of people that would await the steamboats-in the year of the art's creation almost 2 million…

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While this serves as a brief opening vignette for Nye's piece on "Rededicating the Statue of Liberty," Wright's flight around the Statue— and its portrayal in the "Journal of Civilization" says a lot about American attitudes towards…