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Chicago’s 1893 World’s Fair: The Frontier and the Future. American Historian Frederick Jackson Turner. John Gast , “Spirit of the Frontier,” 1872. Building the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. Manufactures and Liberal Arts Center, Chicago World’s Fair, 1893. The “Water Gate” entryway to the Fair.
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Manufactures and Liberal Arts Center, Chicago World’s Fair, 1893
Electric fans on display; electric passenger train circles the grounds
“Chinatown,” Wasp (S.F.), 1882 “The Great Fire at Chicago,” 1871
Police raid a railroad laborers’ meeting at Turner Hall, Chicago, 1877