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“It will take two years to see it all”

Oil painting depicting crowds in front of the Golden Doorway of the Transportation Building at the World's Columbian Exposition world's fair, Chicago, Illinois, 1893. The sculptor of the Golden Doorway was John J. Boyle.

When Barney Fredendall from Guilderland, New York, returned home from his visit to the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago, he commented that “it will take two years to see it all.” In her article “In 1892, Columbus was celebrated in big Chicago fair and by school children locally,” Mary Ellen Johnson describes other impressions of the Columbian Exposition from the pages of the Altamont Enterprise newspaper.

“The matter of a visit to the World’s Fair is becoming an epidemic,” noted the editor of the Altamont Enterprise newspaper from Upstate New York.

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