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In 1890, when the Chicago fair was first being planned ... was the nickname given to the gleaming buildings of parts of the World’s Columbian Exposition — though it could have applied to ...

J.A. McKenzie of Kentucky, Chairman of the Sub-Committee on Permanent Organization of the World's Fair Commission, and A.T. Ewing of Chicago, another member of the committee, returned to this city ...

America hosted the World's Fair of 1893 as a celebration of Columbus ... the population of the United States was only 63 million in 1890, or that there was an economic depression at the time ...

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Sixty years have passed since the opening of the 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair, the last of the grand-tradition expositions in the U.S. There were other world fairs that followed — the last ...

In 1890 jeweler Seth F ... on collecting souvenir spoons were published and by the time of the Chicago World Fair in 1893, what is now considered the Golden Age of souvenir spoons had well ...