IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. To commemorate the 400th anniversary ...

In November 1893, the journalist Kate Field asked what should be done with the buildings of the World’s Columbian Exposition, the great majority of which were built as temporary structures. “Apply the ...

MacMonnies’ Fountain as seen from the exposition’s Grand Plaza. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of James and Emily Carr Moore The planning for the exposition began many years earlier, and the ...

China is a city on the rise, but it faces serious challenges as it prepares to host the next World's Fair. Vast numbers of migrants are moving in. Infrastructure is outdated and workers are protesting ...

Hulu is adapting The Devil in the White City a novelistic historical nonfiction book about murder and architecture at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in ...

Souvenir Spoon commemorating the World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago, Illinois in 1893. The spoon features depictions of Christopher Columbus and the Fair's Agricultural Building. The 1893 ...

America hosted the World's Fair of 1893 as a celebration of Columbus' voyage to the continent four hundred (and one) years earlier. Chicago beat out New York, St. Louis and Washington, D.C. for the ...

The unveiling of a restored Astronomical Clock offers a look at Tiffany & Co.'s unique place in American history, from ...

The Grand Plaza in front of the Administration Building, seen on Chicago Day, Oct. 9, 1893, the twenty-second anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire. The Administration Building was a ...

The mile-long Midway at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago was the closest an amusement seeker came to a sure thing in 1893. Strolling along, one could admire the belly dancing of Fahreda ...