The Midway Plaisance at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.

by Neil Gale

Overview

For one brief summer in the 1890s, it was the greatest attraction in Chicago, in all America, in fact, more visited and talked about than the world's fair it adjoined. Here, amidst Muslim mosques and Chinese pagodas, European castles and South Sea island huts, straw-hatted Americans came by the thousands to see Bedouin warriors, Egyptian belly dancers, lions that rode horseback and roller-skating bears. Over it all loomed the first giant Ferris wheel, taller than all but one downtown Chicago skyscraper.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781365893438
Publisher:	Lulu.com
Publication date:	04/14/2017
Pages:	74
Sales rank:	869,197
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.15(d)