1893 World’s Columbian Exposition Chicago, on flickr
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These have been online for a while now, so maybe you’ve already seen these. Or, maybe not: archive photos from the World’s Columbian Exposition Chicago of 1893, on flickr. The image on the left, titled Ferris Wheel, Chicago, United States, 1893 [View of girders of] Ferris Wheel [from inside gondola], is courtesy the Brooklyn Museum, which has 96 more photos from the fair posted on their flickr page. The photo on the right, Interior of Machinery Hall, is from the Field Museum of Chicago’s flickr page. Their photo set of the fair, which includes 303 photos and illustrations, is pretty amazing.
Sort of related: via The Morning News, a photos by Jade Duskow of former World’s Fair sites, including a couple of Chicago images. Click HERE to see the photos and read an interview with Duskow about the project. Good stuff.
The Brooklyn Museum and Field Museum have some of the best content on flickr. I’m glad that a lot of photographic archives are being digitized and made available for everyone to see.
Thanks for the heads up on this!
Thanks for the comments. Lately I’ve been kind of down on flickr as a photo-sharing service, but I really like how museums and institutions are now using flickr as a image archive that is easily accessible to the public.