Items | Digital Collections at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library

World's Columbian Exposition Fisheries Building
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A black and white photograph of the exterior of the Fisheries Building at the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893. Source: Arnold, C. D. Collection of Photographs Illustrating the Construction and Progress of the World’s Columbian Exposition. 1893. Dimensions: 10"x13".
World's Columbian Exposition Electricity Building
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A black and white photograph of the interior of the Electricity Building at the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893. Source: Arnold, C. D. Collection of Photographs Illustrating the Construction and Progress of the World’s Columbian Exposition. 1893. Dimensions: 10"x13".
World's Columbian Exposition Agricultural Building
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A black and white photograph of the Agricultural Building at the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893. Source: Arnold, C. D. Collection of Photographs Illustrating the Construction and Progress of the World’s Columbian Exposition. 1893. Dimensions: 10"x13".
World's Columbian Exposition Horticultural Building
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A black and white photograph of the exterior of the Horticultural Building at the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893. Source: Arnold, C. D. Collection of Photographs Illustrating the Construction and Progress of the World’s Columbian Exposition. 1893. Dimensions: 10"x13".
World’s Columbian Exposition Mines and Mining Building
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A black and white photograph of the exterior of the Mines and Mining Building at the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893. Source: Arnold, C. D. Collection of Photographs Illustrating the Construction and Progress of the World’s Columbian Exposition. 1893. Dimensions: 10"x13".
Exhibition buildings
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A black and white photograph of the exterior of Machinery Hall at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. Source: Arnold, C. D. Collection of Photographs Illustrating the Construction and Progress of the World's Columbian Exposition. 1893. Dimensions: 9"x13".
New York Central Steam Locomotive #999;
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The New York Central 999 steam locomotive and fuel car measure approximately sixteen feet tall, ten feet wide, and forty-eight feet long. The driving wheels are seven feet, two inches tall. The locomotive and fuel car weigh 124,000 pounds. The locomotive, with two driving wheels on each side, is painted black with silver trim, and has brass components.
World's Columbian Exposition Festival Hall
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A black and white photograph of the exterior of the Festival Hall at the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893. Source: Arnold, C. D. Collection of Photographs Illustrating the Construction and Progress of the World’s Columbian Exposition. 1893. Dimensions: 10"x13".
World's Columbian Exposition Administration Building
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A black and white photograph of the Administration Building at the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893. Source: Arnold, C. D. Collection of Photographs Illustrating the Construction and Progress of the World’s Columbian Exposition. 1893. Dimensions: 10"x13".
World's Columbian Exposition Festival Hall
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A black and white photograph of the interior of the World’s Columbian Exposition Festival Hall in 1893. Source: Arnold, C. D. Collection of Photographs Illustrating the Construction and Progress of the World’s Columbian Exposition. 1893. Dimensions: 10"x13".
World’s Columbian Exposition Woman’s Building
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A black and white photograph of the main entrance to the Woman’s Building at the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893. Source: Arnold, C. D. Collection of Photographs Illustrating the Construction and Progress of the World’s Columbian Exposition. 1893. Dimensions: 10"x13".
World's Columbian Exposition Transportation Building
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A black and white photograph of the exterior of the Transportation Building at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. Source: Arnold, C. D. Collection of Photographs Illustrating the Construction and Progress of the World's Columbian Exposition. 1893. Dimensions: 10"x13".
Blickensderfer Typewriter No. 5
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A portable manual typewriter (in original carrying case), 'Blickensderfer No. 5 Stamford Conn. U.S.A.' Ideal keyboard, with type-wheel, black keys with white letters. No. 58627.
Palace of Fine Arts
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)An oil painting on canvas by Childe Hassam of the Palace of Fine Arts building at the World’s Columbian Exposition held in Chicago in 1893. The painting measures thirty-five inches by forty-one inches.
Illinois Central Locomotive, The 'Mississipi'
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The 'Mississippi' is a relatively small locomotive, even for its day. The locomotive's smokestack is twelve feet high, seven feet wide, and fourteen feet long. Behind the locomotive's engine is a flatcar that is seven feet wide and eight feet long. This flat car carried the locomotive's firewood and water. Both the locomotive and flatcar are painted black with white trim. Th...
John Luneen Souvenir Scrapbook
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)two postcards from Woonsocket Rhode Island, advertising a shoemaker. The maps are by Rand McNally illustrating the entire fairgrounds, and by David Bradley (farm equipment producer) of Chicago. There is a commercial flier promoting good health with 'Aerated Waters' from the William Corry and Company of Belfast, Ireland and a wallet-sized calendar for the year of 1893 by The ...
World's Columbian Exposition Transportation Building
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A black and white photograph of the "Golden Doorway" of the Transportation Building at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. Source: Arnold, C. D. Collection of Photographs Illustrating the Construction and Progress of the World's Columbian Exposition. 1893. Dimensions: 10"x13".
World’s Columbian Exposition Woman’s Building
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A black and white photograph of the exterior of the Woman's Building at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. Source: Arnold, C. D. Collection of Photographs Illustrating the Construction and Progress of the World's Columbian Exposition. 1893. Dimensions: 10"x13".
World’s Columbian Exposition Palace of Fine Arts
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A black and white photograph of the Palace of Fine Arts at the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893. Source: Arnold, C. D. Collection of Photographs Illustrating the Construction and Progress of the World’s Columbian Exposition. 1893. Dimensions: 10"x13".
World’s Columbian Exposition Manufacturers and Liberal Arts Building
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A black and white photograph of the exterior of the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building at the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893. Source: Arnold, C. D. Collection of Photographs Illustrating the Construction and Progress of the World’s Columbian Exposition. 1893. Dimensions: 10"x13".
World's Columbian Exposition Ferris Wheel
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A black and white photograph of the Ferris Wheel at the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893. Source: Arnold, C. D. Collection of Photographs Illustrating the Construction and Progress of the World’s Columbian Exposition. 1893. Dimensions: 10"x13".
World’s Columbian Exposition Machinery Hall
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A black and white photograph of the interior of Machinery Hall at the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893. Source: Arnold, C. D. Collection of Photographs Illustrating the Construction and Progress of the World’s Columbian Exposition. 1893. Dimensions: 9"x13".

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