Skip to main content

Archives at Cornell

World's Columbian Exposition (Location of meeting: Chicago, Ill.). Date of meeting or treaty signing: (1893 :.)

 Organization

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Grevatt family postcards

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064716008]
Identifier: 2535
Scope and content

Postcards to and from members of the Grevatt and Archdeacon families include views of the World's Columbian Exposition, New York City, upstate New York, and elsewhere in the United States. Also, humorous postcards and greeting cards in postcard format.

Dates: [ca. 1893-1910]

World's Columbian Exposition photographs

 Collection — Manuscript box 51 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065251443]
Identifier: 2631m
Scope and content

Photographs of exhibits and buildings at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The photographs are glossy prints made from glass plates that were subsequently destroyed. Each photograph has a brief caption on the back. Scenes depicted include the rose garden, Japanese garden, Massachusetts building, fruit show, orange grove, Falconnier greenhouse, California building, weathered greenhouse, fence-row exhibit, and New York building.

Dates: 1893.

Additional filters:

Subject
Agricultural exhibitions -- Illinois -- Chicago. 1
Greeting cards. 1
New York (N.Y.) -- Pictorial works. 1
New York (State) -- Pictorial works. 1
Photographs 1
∨ more
Postcards. 1
+ ∧ less