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1.		World's Columbian Exposition Machinery Hall	Exhibition buildings; Exhibitions; Sculpture; Columns; Water; Fairs; Temporary buildings	The World's Columbian Exposition ran from May 1 to October 30, 1893. Machinery Hall "is 846 feet long by 492 feet wide, not including the annex which is 490 feet by 550 feet, or the power house 100 by...

2.		S.S. Alabama in the Chicago Harbor, 1934	Steamboats; Buildings;	Photograph. The most photographed Goodrich steamer of all time, the Alabama was commissioned in 1910, and served on the cross-lake passenger and cargo route for many years. The Goodrich Transit Company...

3.		World's Columbian Exposition Administration Building	Exhibition buildings; Exhibitions; Fountains; Domes; People; Flagpoles; Flags; Walkways; Fairs; Temporary buildings	The World's Columbian Exposition ran from May 1 to October 30, 1893. The Administration Building was formed of four pavilions, 84 feet square and connected by a great central dome 120 feet in diameter...

4.		Court of Honor, ca. 1893	Fairs; Monuments; Flags; Flagpoles; Fountains; Canals; Gondolas; Buildings; Optical illusions; Waterways; Gardens	In 1890, nearly twenty years after the Great Chicago Fire and at the zenith of his career as an urban planner and landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmsted found the opportunity to resurrect his plan...

5.		View of Chicago in Ruins from the Michigan Avenue Hotel, 1871	Ruins; Buildings; Hotels	Stereograph. View of Chicago in Ruins from the Michigan Avenue Hotel, 1871. Lovejoy & Foster, photographers. Fifty years of steady growth ended on October 8, 1871, when the Great Chicago Fire destroyed...

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