Review Of The World's Columbian Exposition Of 1893

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A stylish, awe-inspiring, and lavish fair portrayed the thrill of the new beginning of the Modern Era. The World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 was deemed to be the future. However, I feel that the fair's vision of the United States had a distinguished historical significance. I firmly believe this because embellishments and expansion have the least significant long-term impacts on people. When the 1893 Chicago Columbian Exposition closed on October 31, it had already become a historic event, as stated in paragraph 6 explicitly. The exhibition unintentionally illustrated how industrialization changed over the eighteenth century. It gave the nation a preview of its potential development in the twenty-first century. Another reason is that the fair was a perfect city within a city, which is another factor. It was a spotless, organized world with beautiful scenery, stately structures, and well-kept public avenues. For instance, paragraph 5 claims that there were "65,000 exhibits" indicating that "a concept …show more content…

Most notably, paragraph 3 reveals that the structures were set in a stone of brilliance, and were coated in sparkling white plaster. Thomas Edison's freshly completed method, which used 120,000 light bulbs, was employed by architects to further enhance the structures' impressiveness. According to this fact, the majority of people saw the fair more for its thrill than for its advancement. The text made it apparent that 27.5 million people out of 63 million people were counted as fair attendees in the 1890 census. Even then, millions more people learned about the fair via rumors and the media. I remain certain that my point was to formally welcome the Modern age. The importance of economic advancement would not allow the Modern Era to be publicly welcomed but rather resisted if the fair did not generate enthusiasm for its