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This is a booklet that contains handwritten notes, presumably from 1876. Maddie Arnold-Scerbo

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,…

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…

Despite China's late arrival to the Centennial and limited space for their exhibit, China's exhibit was made extremely unique by their use of partitions along the perimeter and the addition of a roof to the exhibit. This enclosure blocked…

This is an image of part of the Chinese display. The amount of items, chairs, tables, cloth, and pottery show that the Chinese came to impress. However, the neatness of the display shows that the workers put time and effort into making the display…

These two photographs are the labor strike at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus on June 22, 1938. The circus executive John Ringling North informed his employees that all of the circus would have to take a 25% pay cut because the circus…