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Pictures from an Exposition: Visualizing the 1893 World's Fair Exhibition
Pictures from an Exposition: Visualizing the 1893 World's Fair Exhibition
Pictures from an Exposition: Visualizing the 1893 World's Fair Exhibition
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Open book Pictures from an Exposition: Visualizing the 1893 World's Fair Exhibition

Title Pictures from an Exposition: Visualizing the 1893 World's Fair Exhibition 
Creator Dillon, Diane, Newberry Library
Date 2018-09-28/2018-12-31 
Subjects Exhibitions
Description 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. But the allure of the fair depended less on the aesthetics of single objects than upon its status as a total, unified work of art.

Featuring works of art and ephemera from the Newberry’s extensive collection of exposition materials, Pictures from an Exposition explores the fair’s tremendous power of attraction, both at the time of its presentation and through history into the present, for both those who attended and those who experienced it from afar. Opening during the exposition’s 125th anniversary year, the exhibition will pay special attention to the dynamic between fine art and popular imagery, the intertwining of aesthetic and economic imperatives, and the ways in which the exposition’s visual language reflected the important role that images played in late 19th century American history and culture. 
Archival Collection Title Newberry Library Archives
Link to Catalog View record
Call Number NL Archives 
BibID 991051478805867
Rights Status Copyright Not Evaluated
Contributing Institution Newberry Library
Newberry Open Access Policy The Newberry makes its collections available for any lawful purpose, commercial or non-commercial, without licensing or permission fees to the library, subject to these terms and conditions. 
Size 4792px × 3528px     96.77 MB 
Filename exposition_exhibit_09_25_18_001.tif 
Unique Identifier NL1A28V