World's Columbian Exposition Chicago with Lincoln Portrait - 1893 dated World's Fair

World's Columbian Exposition ticket for Chicago. "Admit The Bearer." Front and back shown. Great Abraham Lincoln portrait. Small size measures 3 3/4" x 2 1/4".

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.^[1] The centerpiece of the Fair, held in Jackson Park, was a large water pool representing the voyage that Columbus took to the New World. Chicago won the right to host the fair over several competing cities, including New York City, Washington, D.C., and St. Louis. The exposition was an influential social and cultural event and had a profound effect on American architecture, the arts, American industrial optimism, and Chicago's image. The Pledge of Allegiance was first performed at the exposition by a mass of school children lined up in military fashion.

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