The lobby of the Marquette Building in Chicago.

The Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York, includes many items associated with the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in their extensive collection. They recently posted a video about the stunning Tiffany glass-tile mural in Chicago’s historic Marquette Building, noting its own connection to the Chicago World’s Fair:

“At the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, architects William Holabird and Martin Roche found in the glass of Tiffany Studios what they had been searching for: a piece that would provide a lasting impression to all of their building’s visitors. The architects commissioned Tiffany to create a series of mosaic panels for the lobby of the Marquette office building in Chicago, which were to depict scenes from the North American expedition of the French Canadian explorer Louis Jolliet and Jesuit father Jacques Marquette. The four-foot-tall frieze comprised of 12 panels brought together over 200,000 pieces of glass and 10,000 pieces of mother of pearl.”

The museum explores the historical inaccuracies of how members of the Peoria Tribe are depicted in the mural.