Midway Plaisance : West Half
Street in Cairo and Temple of Luxor Zoopraxographical Hall / Pompeii Theater Persian Palace / Persian Theater and Bazaar Eiffel Tower Model U.S. Custom Office German Wienerwurst House / Triacca Restaurant Moorish Palace Tree of Wonder / Camera Obscura Algerian and Tunisian Village East Indian Bazaar / East Indian Palace Ferris Wheel Vienna Cafe Parisian Art Glassware Company / Glass Spinning Ice Railway and Skating Rink (unknown) (unknown) St. Peter’s Model French Cider Press Fire and Guard Station No. 6 Clow Toilet Rooms Volcano of Kilauea Cyclorama American Indian Village Combination Booth Chinese Village and Theater / Joss House Austrian Village / Old Vienna Captive Balloon Ride Brazilian Concert Hall Ostrich Farm Dahomey Village Lapland Village St. Bernard Dog Show Sitting Bull’s Cabin Clow Toilet Rooms Hungarian Café and Concert Pavilion Bedouin Camp Military Encampment Barre Sliding Railway (did not open)

Street in Cairo and Temple of Luxor

Official Guide No. 12
sponsor: Egypt-Chicago Exposition Company (concession 4)
architects: Max Herz and Henry Ives Cobb

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Zoopraxographical Hall / Pompeii Theater

Zoopraxographical Hall 
sponsor: Eadweard Muybridge (concession 48)
architect: Thomas Wing of Chicago

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Zoopraxographical Hall was replaced by the
Pompeii Theater and Panorama
also called the Last Days of Pompeii
Official Guide No. 11
sponsor: G. Pandofelli (concession 237)

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Persian Palace / Persian Theater and Bazaar

Official Guide No. 13
sponsor: Elia-Souhami, Sadullah & Company (concession 51; this may be the Persian Tent inside the Turkish Village); Georges E. Khourie
architect: W. E. Paseo

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Eiffel Tower Model

Official Guide No. 14
sponsor: C. du Pasquiere/Pasquier (concession 117)
architect: Tanty & Youngberg

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U.S. Custom Office

German Wienerwurst House / Triacca Restaurant

Official Guide No. 38
sponsor: Franz Triacca (concession 102)

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Moorish Palace

Official Guide No. 37
sponsor: Columbian Moorish Palace Company (concession 13)
architectAugust Fiedler of Chicago

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Tree of Wonder / Camera Obscura

Official Guide No. 36
sponsor: Carl Memethy and Adolph Gaul

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Algerian and Tunisian Village

Official Guide No. 16
sponsor: A. Siflico and Ela Gannon (concession 28)
architect: Alexander Sandier of Paris

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East Indian Bazaar / East Indian Palace

Official Guide No. 18
sponsor: Ardeshir & Byramji (concession 172 “East India Wares”) or S. J. Tellery (concession 142 “East India Ware”)

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Ferris Wheel

Official Guide No. 15
sponsor: The Ferris Wheel Company (concession 58)
engineers: George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr., and Luther V. Rice

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Vienna Cafe

Official Guide No. 17
sponsor: Koenig & Griesser (concession 81)
architect: William/Wilhelm Griesser

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Parisian Art Glassware Company / Glass Spinning

Official Guide No. 35
sponsor: Auguste Leroy (concession 162 “French Glassware”)

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Ice Railway and Skating Rink

Official Guide No. 33
sponsor: John C. De La Vergne & Thomas Rankin of New York (concession 61)
architect: Weber & Drosser

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St. Peter’s Model

Official Guide No. 34
sponsor: Ludovic de Spiridon of Rome (concession 86)
architect: Solon S. Beman

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French Cider Press

Official Guide No. 32
sponsor: Cottentin & Sieman/Ziemen (concession 71)
architect: J. Campbell Rogers of Chicago

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Fire and Guard Station No. 6

sponsor: managed by the Fire Department
architect: Charles B. Atwood

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Clow Toilet Rooms

sponsor: managed by the Clow Sanitary Company
architectCharles B. Atwood

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Volcano of Kilauea Cyclorama

Official Guide No. 19
sponsor: Lorrin A. Thurston (concession 24)
architect: J. K. Cady of Chicago

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American Indian Village

Official Guide No. 20
sponsor: T. R. Roddy (concession 248)

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Combination Booth

Chinese Village and Theater / Joss House

Official Guide No. 21
sponsor: The Wah Mee Company; W. F. White (concession 33)
architect: Horatio R. Wilson and Oliver W. Marble of Wilson & Marble

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Austrian Village / Old Vienna

Official Guide No. 31
sponsor: Old Vienna at Chicago Company (concession 182)
architect: William/Wilhelm Griesser

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Captive Balloon Ride

Official Guide No. 22
sponsor: American Captive Balloon Company
architect: August Fiedler of Chicago

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Brazilian Concert Hall

Official Guide No. 23
sponsor: A. P. de la Riberio (concession 161 “Brazilian Exhibit”)
architect: Reuben Albert Denell of D. H. Burnham & Co.

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Ostrich Farm

Official Guide No. 24
sponsor: The American Ostrich Company (concession 223); A. J. Johnston, manager

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Dahomey Village

Official Guide No. 30
sponsor: Xavier Pene (concession 20)

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Lapland Village

Official Guide No. 29
sponsor: Lapland Village Exhibition Company of Chicago (concession 133); Patrick H. Coney (President)

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St. Bernard Dog Show

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Sitting Bull’s Cabin

Official Guide No. 25
sponsor: P. B. Wickham of Mandan, North Dakota (concession 253)

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Clow Toilet Rooms

sponsor: managed by the Clow Sanitary Company
architectCharles B. Atwood

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Hungarian Café and Concert Pavilion

Also called the National Hungarian Orpheum
Official Guide No. 28
sponsor: Hungarian Cafe Company (concession 31)

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Bedouin Camp

Also called the Wild East Show or the Ottoman Hippodrome
Official Guide No. 27
sponsor: S. K. Bistani / P. K. Bristani (concession 257)

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Military Encampment

Official Guide No. 26

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Barre Sliding Railway (did not open)

sponsor: Barre Sliding Railway Company (concession 1)

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