What would you do if you had a time machine? Go watch the ancient Egyptian pyramids being built? Hang out with Jesus and turn some water into wine? Kill Hitler, maybe? These are all, no doubt, noble endeavors. But I've often said—and I stand by this—that if I had a time machine, I'd go visit the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago.

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I just finished reading the Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America, a fascinating and informative book about the 1893 World’s Colombian Exposition, or …

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Graphic Chicago World's Fair Paper Umbrella 1933

Art and Handicrafts in the Woman's Building, World's Columbian Exposition,1893

Expo Universelle 1893 Chicago

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"Interior of Electrical Building." Color plate by Charles S. Graham from The World's Fair in Water Colors. Size of original document approximately 8.8 x 11 inches. 1893. Digitial Identifier: GN90799d_WFWC_14w World's Columbian Exposition Collection at The Field Museum