“Hurrah for the Red, White and Blue!” [Image from World’s Fair Puck, July 3, 1893.]
At 11 o’clock on July 4, 1893, crowds filled around a grandstand east of Terminal Station on the fairgrounds of the World’s Fair in Chicago. A band opened the ceremonies with a medley of American airs, beginning with “Hail Columbia” and ending with “Yankee Doodle.”
