2008-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/31/2008
“World’s Columbian Fair Chicago” accordian book, of various exhibits at the fair, printed in Germany, 1893, and advertising James Hickey’s Fine Pleasure Vehicles on verso. Good...plus; “World’s Columbian Exposition Chicago” 1893 half-dollar coin, VG. (2 items) The World's Columbian Exposition (also called The Chicago World's Fair), a World's Fair, was held in Chicago in 1893, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World. Chicago bested New York City, Washington, D.C. and St. Louis, Missouri, for the honor of hosting the fair. The fair had a profound effect on architecture, the arts, Chicago's self-image, and American industrial optimism. The Chicago Columbian Exposition was, in large part, designed by Daniel Burnham and Frederick Law Olmsted. It was the prototype of what Burnham and his colleagues thought a city should be. It was designed to follow Beaux Arts principles of design, namely, European Classical Architecture principles based on symmetry and balance.
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