World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893, halftone print, published in 1893 - stock illustration

Ceremony in Lincoln Park to mark the handover of the World's Fair to the city of Chicago with the General Grant monument in the background. The World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair, was a world's fair held in Chicago from May 5 to October 31, 1893, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492. Halftone print based on a photograph (1892) by John C. H. Grabill (American photographer, 1849 - 1903), published in 1893.