World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893, halftone print, published in 1893 - stock illustration

Neo-Romanesque portal to the Fisheries Building during the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago - designed by the architect Henry Ives Cobb from Chicago. The Building has been admired without stint, and in its East Pavilion was housed one of the chief attractions of the Exposition - a double row of grottoed and illuminated aquaria, in which the strangest inhabitants of the deep were exposed to convenient view. The World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair, was a world's fair held in Chicago from May 5 to October 31, 1893, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492. Halftone print based on a photograph, published in 1893.