Bird's Eye View of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Ill., USA, 1892–1893 Bengals_Poster smokestacks

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Bird's Eye View of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Ill., USA, 1892–1893 Bengals_Poster smokestacksBird's Eye View of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Ill., USA, 18921893. The White City rendered from above in panoramic chromolithograph Burnham's plaster palaces ringing the Court of Honor, Lake Michigan at the eastern edge, an entire Beaux Arts metropolis conjured on swampland to mark four centuries since Columbus. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the