World's Columbian Exposition
Rand McNally and Company
Bird's Eye View of the World's Columbian Exposition. Chicago:
1893
Color lithograph map
Geography & Map Division (213A.4)
Digital ID# 4104c
pm001522
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No event had a greater impact on the form and appearance of the
American city than this World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago
in 1893. Throughout the country train stations, banks, and city
halls all came to resemble the elegant buildings of the fair. The
monumental classicism of the artificial city created under the
guidance of the Daniel Burnham was true to his famous dictum: "Make
no little plans." The bird's-eye view was a popular promotional
genre of the era. Generally commissioned by city fathers to promote
commerce and settlement, these maps are now regularly consulted
by genealogists and historians.
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