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Title: The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: White, Trumbull, 1868-1941 Igleheart, William, (from old catalog) joint author
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: Philadelphia and St. Louis, P.W. Ziegler & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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PARIS EXPOSITION, 1867. was taken in at the entrances, of which about $2,500 was counter-feit silver. It was estimated at the time that the city of Londonincreased its total income by about $20,000,000 during the sixmonths of the exhibition. It is a fact worthy of notice that although the United States hadvery few exhibitors in attendance, they secured a larger numberof awards in proportion to the representation than any of the for-eign nations that participated. The reapers, pianos, vehicles andtextile fabrics sent from the United States attracted special atten-tion, while Powers* sculpture, The Greek Slave, was a great sur» PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS. 27 prise to the continental and insular critics, who thought at that timethat America had nothino- of art worth considerinor. In awards there were three grades—a council medal, equivalentto a diploma of honor; the gold prize medal, and certificates of
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v^^^- VIKNNA EXPOSITION, 1873. honorable mention. Altogether, 5,248 awards were conferred, ofwhich American exhibitors secured 5 council medals, 102 prizemedals, and 53 honorable mentions. THE NEW YORK EXHIBITION. Although Dublin held an exhibition in 1853 which made someclaim to international scope, it was more particularly local in itsessential features, was initiated and carried on by private capital,and was remarkable for nothing except its magnificent collection ofpaintings, which was the finest ever brought together up to thattime. The New York Worlds Fair was the immediate successor of theCrystal Palace, and, indeed, had its origin in the visit of a number 28 PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS. of Americans who had seen the wonderful success of Prince Al-berts exhibition, and had thought that even greater things in planmight be repeated on the western continent. In the very outset,however, the promoters of the undertaking found themselves at agreat disadvantage in the absence of government s

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