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Chicago's Grand Midway: A Walk around the World at the Columbian Exposition

By Norman Bolotin
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By Norman Bolotin
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Created as a centerpiece for the Columbian Exposition of 1893, the Midway Plaisance was for one summer the world's most wondrous thoroughfare. A journey along its length immersed millions of spellbound visitors in a spectacle that merged exoticism with enlightenment and artistic crafts with dizzying technical achievement. Norman Bolotin, with Christine Laing, draws on his vast knowledge of the 1893 exposition to escort readers down the Midway. Step by step he takes you past forbidding Dahom...

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HistoryWorld HistoryArchitectureGeneral & Miscellaneous World HistoryGeographic Locations - ArchitectureWorld History - General & MiscellaneousU.S.A. - Midwest & Great Plains ArchitectureChicago (Ill.)->Buildings, structures, etc.