Featuring works of art and ephemera from the Newberry’s extensive collection of exposition materials, this exhibition explores the fair’s tremendous power of attraction.
As the grandest international spectacle in a great age of spectacles, the World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago in 1893 captured the public’s imagination through a dazzling array of visual images, from photographs, paintings, and illustrated albums to souvenirs, guidebooks, magazine features, and popular histories.
