| Dates: | 1890-1991, (Bulk dates, 1891-1893) |
| Size: | 7 linear feet in 6 boxes, and 31 oversize folders |
| Repository: | Chicago Public Library, Harold Washington Library Center, Special Collections, 400 S. State Street, Chicago, IL 60605 |
| Collection Number: | spe.f00171 |
| Immediate Source of Acquisition: | Materials found in collection; no documentation concerning the provenance of these materials exists. |
| Conditions Governing Access: | Materials are open without restrictions. |
| Conditions Governing Use: | Please consult staff to determine ability to reuse materials from collection. |
| Preferred Citation: | When quoting material from this collection the preferred citation is: World’s Columbian Exposition Collection, [Box #, Folder #], Special Collections, Chicago Public Library |
| Finding Aid Author: | Original author and process date unknown. Updated and ingested into ArchivesSpace by Johanna Russ, 2021. |
Abstract
Collection consists of approximately 200 ephemeral items such as trade cards, tickets, invitations, postcards and other printed ephemera.
Biographical/Historical
In 1893, Chicago hosted the World’s Columbian Exposition, a World’s Fair celebrating the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the Americas. The Fair took place in Jackson Park, on Chicago’s South Side, and ran from May through October of 1893. During those six months, more than 27 million people from around the world visited the Fair. Landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, and architect and planner Daniel Burnham, collaborated with many other luminaries to bring the Fair into existence.
Scope and Contents
The World’s Columbian Exposition Ephemera Collection consists of approximately 200 items. This interesting array of items distributed to visitors at the World’s Fair of 1893 includes souvenir magazine articles, directories, flyers, invitations, journals, maps, postcards, programs, sheet music and souvenir advertisements.
Souvenir advertisements make up the bulk of the collection and provide examples of late 19th century advertising, as well as insight into the goods and services offered by the businessmen and merchants of the late 1800s. One of the more elaborate advertisements in the collection is that of the Singer Manufacturing Company (sewing machines) titled “Costumes of All Nations.” This item consists of approximately 25 colorful cards depicting people of all nations of the world in native dress.
Perhaps the most personal item in the collection is a journal titled “Vacation Days.” This fifty page anonymous handwritten reminiscence documents the summer vacation of a family as they travel from the east coast to the World's Fair. Although the journal is not signed or identified in any way, it appears to be written by a young boy.
The ephemera collection also includes approximately 41 oversize items. Oversize materials include blueprints and floor plans, illustrations, maps, and newspapers.
Arrangement
The World’s Columbian Exposition Ephemera Collection is arranged alphabetically.
Subjects
- World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Related Materials
- Charles Dudley Arnold Photographic Collection
- Elizabeth Chandler Papers
- Ellsworth-Arnold Photograph Albums
- James W. Ellsworth Papers
- Moses P. Handy Papers
- E.R. Walker Photograph Album
- World's Columbian Exposition U.S. War Department Exhibit Photographs
- World's Columbian Exposition, Bureau of Music, Official Report
- World’s Columbian Exposition Catholic Educational Exhibit
- World’s Columbian Exposition Glass Plate Lantern Slides
- World’s Columbian Exposition Miscellaneous Photographs
- World’s Columbian Exposition Snapshots Collection
- World’s Congress Auxiliary Congress of Authors Collection
- World’s Congress Auxiliary Pre-Publications, Programs and Circulars Collection
- Youth’s Companion Collection
Collection Inventory
| Box 1 | Folder 1 | Act to provide for celebrating the 400th Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus by holding an international exhibition of arts, industries, manufactures and the products of soil, mine and sea, in the City of Chicago, State of Illinois | 1890 April 25 |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 | Advertisement: Agricultural Building, Section I | [1893] |
| Box 1 | Folder 3 | Advertisement: The Esquimau Village, Midway Plaisance, WCE | [1893] |
| Box 1 | Folder 4 | Advertisement: “Niagara in Chicago” | [1893] |
| Box 1 | Folder 5 | Announcement: Engagement of Lorado Taft to deliver a course of 6 illustrated lectures on the Art of the WCE | 1893 January 9 |
| Oversize Folder 1 | Architectural plan. Blueprint. Unidentified, showing rail lines with [faint] manuscript additions | 1892 April 6 | |
| Box 5 | Folder 1 | Architectural plan, with manuscript additions. “Plan of Upper Galleries, Central Pavilion,” [Fine Arts Building] | undated |
| Oversize Folder 4 | Architectural plan. Electricity Building (Ground Floor and Second Story), Van Brundt & Howe, Architects | undated | |
| Oversize Folder 5 | Architectural plan. Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building (Gallery and Ground Floor) | undated | |
| Box 1 | Folder 6 | Article: “Around the World in a Day: International Participation in the World’s Columbian Exposition,” by Eric Sandweiss. Illinois Historical Journal, v. 84, #1 | Spring 1991 |
| Box 1 | Folder 7 | Article: “Mementos of the Fair” by Carl U. Fauster | undated |
| Box 1 | Folder 8 | Banquet Menu: In honor of the Foreign Commissioners to the WCE | 1893 October 11 |
| Box 1 | Folder 9 | Brochure: New Jersey Building | [1893] |
| Box 1 | Folder 10 | Cards: Souvenir Plants from the Horticultural Department, WCE (3) | [1893] |
| Box 1 | Folder 11 | Clippings: Miscellaneous | [1893] |
| Box 1 | Folder 12 | Commemorative Card with WCE emblem and envelopes (2) | [1893] |
| Box 1 | Folder 13 | Directory: Official Headquarters, WCE Administration Building (3) | [1893] |
| Box 1 | Folder 14 | Directory: Official Directory, World's Columbian Commission (WCC) | [1893] |
| Box 1 | Folder 15 | Directory: Official Directory of the WCC (annotated) | [1893] |
| Box 1 | Folder 16 | Engraving: Lorenzo Lotto portrait of Columbus | [1893] |
| Box 1 | Folder 17 | Flyer: Christmas Dinner, Association of '93 | 1928 December 11 |
| Box 1 | Folder 18 | Flyer: “A Trip through Italy and Germany,” Midway Plaisance, WCE | [1893] |
| Box 1 | Folder 19 | Flyer: WCE Board of Directors Election | 1892 April 2 |
| Box 1 | Folder 20 | Guide: The Historical World’s Columbian Exposition and Chicago Guide | 1892 |
| Oversize Folder 6 | Illustration. “Bird’s Eye View of Grounds and Buildings, Columbian Exposition, 1893,” by Charles Graham. Chicago: The Winter’s Art Lithography Company | [1893] | |
| Oversize Folder 7 | Illustration. “Bird’s Eye View of the World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893. Chicago: A. Teese & Company | [1893] | |
| Box 5 | Folder 7 | Illustration. Pencil sketch (reproduction). “October 8, 1893,” by Arthur Ames. Those pictured: Arthur Ames, Mary Venderpoel, Albert Holmberg, Mary Smith, Charles Garinger, Birdie Schaay, Maud Meacham, May Belle Harvey, Larned Meacham. | [1893] |
| Oversize Folder 8 | Illustration. “The Pier and Casino at the Columbian Exposition,” by Charles Graham. Harper’s Weekly, vol. 35, no. 1796 | 1891 May 23 | |
| Oversize Folder 9 | Illustration. “The Royal Commission to the Chicago Exhibition.” The Graphic | 1893 May 5 | |
| Oversize Folder 10 | Illustration. “Time to Take a Hand,” by J. Dalrymple. World’s Fair Puck, Chicago | undated | |
| Oversize Folder 11 | Illustration. “Welcome to the Fair,” by L.J. Taylor. World’s Fair Puck, Chicago | undated | |
| Box 1 | Folder 21 | Invitation (to George W. Spencer): Dedication of the Buildings of the WCE | 1892 October 20-22 |
| Box 1 | Folder 22 | Invitation (to William Thompson): Dedication of the Buildings of the WCE | 1892 October 20-22 |
| Box 1 | Folder 23 | Invitation (to W.W. Thumser): Dedication of the Buildings of the WCE | 1892 October 20-22 |
| Box 1 | Folder 24 | Invitation: World’s Congress Auxiliary, World’s Public Press Congress | 1893 May 22 |
| Box 1 | Folder 25 | Invitation Notice: Unidentified Event, Joint Committee on Ceremonies | 1892 |
| Box 1 | Folder 26 | Journal: The American Philatelist, “World’s Columbian Exposition – 1893” by G. Bleuler, J. Doolin, pp. 713-726 | 1890 August |
| Box 1 | Folder 27 | Journal: Contanseau’s Monthly Bulletin, #142, “World’s Columbian Exposition,” pp. 294-299 | 1891 July |
| Box 1 | Folder 28 | Journal: Contanseau’s Monthly Bulletin, #143, “World’s Columbian Exposition,” pp. 343-347 | 1891 August |
| Box 1 | Folder 29 | Journal: Contanseau’s Monthly Bulletin, #145, “World’s Columbian Exposition,” pp. 393-395 | 1891 October |
| Box 1 | Folder 30 | Journal: Contanseau’s Monthly Bulletin, #148, “World’s Columbian Exposition,” pp. 40 | 1891 January |
| Box 1 | Folder 31 | Journal: Contanseau’s Monthly Bulletin, #150, “World’s Columbian Exposition,” pp. 106-111 | 1891 March |
| Box 1 | Folder 32 | Journal: Contanseau’s Monthly Bulletin, #151, “World’s Columbian Exposition,” pp. 154-159 | 1891 April |
| Box 1 | Folder 33 | Journal: DeMorest’s Family Magazine, v. 29, #11, “At the World’s Columbian Exposition” | 1893 September |
| Box 1 | Folder 34 | Journal: The Deseret News, New Years | 1893 |
| Box 1 | Folder 35 | Journal: Godeys, v. 127, #758, “Music at the Columbian Exposition” by Herbert W. Greene, pp. 223-225 | 1893 August |
| Box 1 | Folder 36 | Journal: The Iron Age, v. 49, #17, “World’s Fair Notes,” p. 817 | 1892 April 28 |
| Box 1 | Folder 37 | Journal: Journal of the Society of Arts, v. 39, #2031, “Chicago Exhibition, 1893” | 1891 October 23 |
| Box 1 | Folder 38 | Journal: Journal of the Society of Arts, v. 42, #2165, “Chicago Exhibition, 1893 – British Section” | 1894 May 18 |
| Box 5 | Folder 2 | Journal. The Saturday Evening Herald, vol. 36, no. 7 | 1893 April 29 |
| Box 1 | Folder 39 | Journal: The Technoqraph, #116, “The World’s Columbian Exposition - A Constructive Problem and its Value as a Criterion” | 1896-1897 |
| Oversize Folder 16 | Map. “Bird’s Eye View of Chicago, 1893.” Chicago: Peter Roy | 1892 | |
| Oversize Folder 15 | Map. “Bird’s Eye View of the World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893.” Chicago: Knight, Leonard & Company | 1893 | |
| Box 2 | Folder 1 | Map: “Bird’s Eye View of the World’s Columbian Exposition” See also Oversize Folder 17 | 1893 |
| Box 2 | Folder 2 | Map: Buildings & Grounds of the World’s Columbian Exposition (2) | 1893 |
| Box 5 | Folder 5 | Map. “Map of the Buildings and Grounds of the World’s Columbian Exposition at Jackson Park and Midway Plaisance, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.” | 1893 |
| Box 5 | Folder 6 | Map. “Map of the Buildings and Grounds of the World’s Columbian Exposition at Jackson Park and Midway Plaisance, 1893”; with “Bird’s-Eye View—Looking East”. Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A., | 1893 |
| Oversize Folder 12 | Map. “Map of the Buildings and Grounds of the World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893,” drawn especially for Art and Architecture by Alexander Sandier | [1893] | |
| Oversize Folder 13 | Map. “Chicago Tribune’s Columbian Souvenir Map of Chicago & the World’s Fair.” Chicago Tribune | 1893 | |
| Oversize Folder 17 | Map. “Correct General View of the World’s Columbian Exposition,” (with map of grounds, map of Chicago, history of Chicago, and illustrations of main buildings). Chicago: Midway Publishing Company | 1892 | |
| Box 2 | Folder 3 | Map: “Map of Jackson Park Showing Location of Proposed Improvements of the World’s Columbian Exposition” | 1891 December |
| Box 5 | Folder 4 | Map. “Map of Jackson Park Showing Proposed Improvements for World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893”; with “Bird’s-Eye View—Looking East”. Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. | 1893 |
| Box 2 | Folder 4 | Map: “Map Showing Exposition Grounds and Route of Congressional Party” | 1892 February 22 |
| Box 2 | Folder 5 | Map: “Souvenir Map of the World’s Columbian Exposition,” (compiled and drawn by Hermann Heinze, Chief Draughtsman, Survey & Grades Department, Department of Works, WCE) See Oversize Folder 18 | 1893 |
| Oversize Folder 18 | Map. Souvenir Map of the World’s Columbian Exposition ..., 1893. Chicago: Hermann Heinze | 1893 | |
| Oversize Folder 14 | Map. “The Union News Map Company’s New & Correct Map of Chicago Showing the New City Limits and Location of the World’s Columbian Exposition ..., 1893.” Chicago: Rand McNally & Company | 1893 | |
| Box 2 | Folder 6 | Minutes: Convention of National Guard Officers, | 1891 October 27 |
| Oversize Folder 19 | Newspaper: The Chicago Daily Tribune, vol. 52, no. 282 (Chicago Day) | 1893 October 9 | |
| Oversize Folder 20 | Newspaper: The Chicago Daily Tribune, vol. 52, no. 282, Section II, Editorial Page (Chicago Day) | 1893 October 9 | |
| Oversize Folder 21 | Newspaper: The Chicago Sunday Tribune | 1893 August 27 | |
| Oversize Folder 22 | Newspaper: The Chicago Herald | 1892 January 1 | |
| Oversize Folder 23 | Newspaper: The Chicago Herald, World’s Fair Supplement (2 copies) | 1892 January 1 | |
| Oversize Folder 24 | Newspaper: The Daily Columbian, no. 31 | 1893 August 31 | |
| Oversize Folder 25 | Newspaper: The Daily Inter Ocean, also Illustrated Supplement, vol. 22, no. 197 (Chicago Day) | 1893 October 9 | |
| Oversize Folder 26 | Newspaper: The Daily Inter Ocean, vol. 22, no. 198 | 1893 October 10 | |
| Oversize Folder 27 | Newspaper: Illinois Staats Zeitung, vol. 46, no. 242 (in German) | 1893 October 10 | |
| Oversize Folder 28 | Newspaper: Illinois Staats Zeitung, vol. 46, no. 172 (in German) | 1893 July 20 | |
| Oversize Folder 29 | Newspaper: Illinois Staats Zeitung, vol. 46, no. 143 (in German) | 1893 June 16 | |
| Oversize Folder 30 | Newspaper: The Inter Ocean, Illustrated Supplement | 1893 May 31 | |
| Oversize Folder 31 | Newspaper: The Inter Ocean, Illustrated Supplement | 1893 October 11 | |
| Oversize Folder 2 | Newspaper clipping. “Way Back When Columbus’ Ships Excited City—Then Rotted Away,” The Chicago American | 1959 June 20 | |
| Oversize Folder 3 | Newspaper clipping. “54 Years Ago this Month,” Chicago Sunday Tribune | 1947 February 9 | |
| Box 2 | Folder 7 | News Release: Sousa’s Concert Band at the World’s Fair and Manhattan Beach, Season of | 1893 |
| Box 2 | Folder 8 | Personal Reminiscence: “Vacation Days,” Anonymous | [1893] |
| Box 2 | Folder 9 | Poem: “The Columbian Ode” by Harriet Monroe | [1893] |
| Box 5 | Folder 3 | Portfolio. “Glimpses of the World’s Fair, Chicago, Illinois, 1893.” Chicago: Winter’s Art Lithography Company, [1893]. Mounted and presented to [Mrs. Henry E. Coonley] by an artist friend in San Diego, California in 1893, and presented to the Historical Society of Woodlawn by Mrs. Henry E. Coonley, 6055 Harper Avenue. | 1893 |
| Box 5 | Folder 8 | Portfolio, photographic. “Sights and Scenes of the World: A Series of Magnificent Photographic Views Embracing the World of Nature and Art.” People’s Series #21, March 17, 1894. Chicago: W.B. Conkey Company | 1894 |
| Box 2 | Folder 10 | Postcard: Unidentified, three women in costume | [1893] |
| Box 2 | Folder 11 | Postcard: East Board Walk, White City, Chicago | [1893] |
| Box 2 | Folder 12 | Postcard: Official Souvenir Postal, WCE (2) | [1893] |
| Box 2 | Folder 13 | Postcard: White City Amusement Park, East Walk, Vaudeville Restaurant and Ball Room | [1893] |
| Box 2 | Folder 14 | Program: World’s Congress Auxiliary (WCX), General Program of the Series of World’s Congresses to be held at Chicago in connection with the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 (2) | 1893 |
| Box 2 | Folder 15 | Program: Souvenir Programme of the Dedication Ceremonies of the World’s Columbian Exposition | 1892 October |
| Box 2 | Folder 16 | Program: Fireworks Display, Chicago Day Celebration | 1892 October 20-22 |
| Box 2 | Folder 17 | Program/script: America by Imre Kiralfy. Auditorium Theater | 1893 |
| Box 2 | Folder 18 | Puzzles: The T.A. Snider Diamond Puzzle, Cincinnati, Ohio | [1893] |
| Box 6 | Scrapbook. Miss Fanny Johnston, compiled by her mother, Lora Ellen Ross Johnson | 1894 | |
| Box 2 | Folder 19 | Sheet Music: Miscellaneous | [1893] |
| Box 2 | Folder 20 | Sheet Music: America’s National Songs. Columbian Edition | [1893] |
| Box 2 | Folder 21 | Sheet Music: “A Trip through the Midway Plaisance, Grand Medley by George Schleiffarty | [1893] |
| Box 5 | Folder 10 | Sheet music: “Columbus, or If he Had Only Waited,” words by Edward Briggs, music by G.H. Wilder. Chicago, Boston, New York: White-Smith Publishing Company | 1893 |
| Box 5 | Folder 11 | Sheet music. “Ferris Wheel Waltz,” words by Harry C. Clyde, music by G. Valisi. Chicago: Valisi & Giorgi | [1893] |
| Box 5 | Folder 12 | Sheet music. “Polka de la Plaisance,” by S.L. Viets. Chicago: National Music Company | 1893 |
| Box 2 | Folder 22 | Sheet Music: World’s Columbian Exposition Waltz by Carl Koelling | [1893] |
| Box 5 | Folder 9 | Sheet music: “World’s Columbian Exposition Waltz,” by Adelaide Marcella Glück. Chicago: A.M. Glück & Company (2 copies) | 1893 |
| Box 2 | Folder 23 | Souvenir: “Chicago” | [1893] |
| Box 2 | Folder 24 | Souvenir: Chicago Post Souvenir | [1893] |
| Box 2 | Folder 25 | Souvenir: “World’s Columbian Exhibition (sic), Chicago” | 1893 |
| Box 2 | Folder 26 | Souvenir: “World’s Fair Album of Chicago” | 1893 |
| Box 2 | Folder 27 | Souvenir: “World’s Fair Chicago” | [1893] |
| Box 3 | Folder 1 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Miscellaneous | [1893] |
| Box 3 | Folder 2 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Anglo American Provision Company | [1893] |
| Box 3 | Folder 3 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: F.J. Aubeuf Monitor Trucks | [1893] |
| Box 3 | Folder 4 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Walter Baker & Company | [1893] |
| Box 3 | Folder 5 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Bissell’s Gold Medal Carpet Sweepers | [1893] |
| Box 3 | Folder 6 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Boston Crystal Gelatine | [1893] |
| Box 3 | Folder 7 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Boston Rubber Shoe Company | [1893] |
| Box 3 | Folder 8 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Bovril, Ltd. | [1893] |
| Box 3 | Folder 9 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Buckeye Cart Company | [1893] |
| Box 3 | Folder 10 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Carson Pirie Scott & Company, Fosters Kid Gloves | [1893] |
| Box 3 | Folder 11 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: A.B. Chase Pianos (5) | [1893] |
| Box 3 | Folder 12 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Chicago Typothetae | [1893] |
| Box 3 | Folder 13 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Chocolat Menier | [1893] |
| Box 3 | Folder 14 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Colorado Mineral Palace Caskets | [1893] |
| Box 3 | Folder 15 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Corticelli Spool Solk | [1893] |
| Box 3 | Folder 16 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Courtauld’s Black English Crapes | [1893] |
| Box 3 | Folder 17 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Cudahy Packing Company, “Rex Brand Sugar Cured Meats” | [1893] |
| Box 3 | Folder 18 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Davis Sewing Machine Company (2) | [1893] |
| Box 3 | Folder 19 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: William Deering & Company | [1893] |
| Box 3 | Folder 20 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: DeLaval Separator Company | [1893] |
| Box 3 | Folder 21 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Deutsche Gold: & Silber: Scheide: Anstalt | [1893] |
| Box 3 | Folder 22 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Dieter’s Prepared Table Mustard (2) | [1893] |
| Box 3 | Folder 23 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Duluth Imperial Mill Company (2) | [1893] |
| Box 3 | Folder 24 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Earl Manufacturing Company, Sarah J. Shacks Dress Reform | [1893] |
| Box 3 | Folder 25 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Erie Preserving Company | [1893] |
| Box 3 | Folder 26 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: N.K. Fairbank & Company | [1893] |
| Box 3 | Folder 27 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Franck Coffee (6) | [1893] |
| Box 3 | Folder 28 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Garland Stoves & Ranges | [1893] |
| Box 3 | Folder 28a | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: General Electric Company | [1893] |
| Box 3 | Folder 29 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Guckenheimer Pure Rye | [1893] |
| Box 3 | Folder 30 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: C.G. Gunthers & Sons Furs | [1893] |
| Box 3 | Folder 31 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Stewart Hartshorn Company | [1893] |
| Box 3 | Folder 32 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Hayes Pump & Planter Company | [1893] |
| Box 3 | Folder 33 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Highland Evaporated Cream | [1893] |
| Box 3 | Folder 34 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Charles Hires Company, Hires Cough Candy | [1893] |
| Box 3 | Folder 35 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Household Sewing Machine Company | [1893] |
| Box 3 | Folder 36 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Kelsey Furnace Company | [1893] |
| Box 3 | Folder 37 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Kingsford & Son (2) | [1893] |
| Box 3 | Folder 38 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Krell Piano Company | [1893] |
| Box 3 | Folder 39 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: L. Leichners Theatrical perfumery | [1893] |
| Box 3 | Folder 40 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Lever Brothers Soap Manufactures | [1893] |
| Box 3 | Folder 41 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Libby McNeill & Libby | [1893] |
| Box 3 | Folder 42 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Lundborg “Goya Lily” | [1893] |
| Box 3 | Folder 43 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Maillards Chocolate | [1893] |
| Box 3 | Folder 44 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Mason & Hamlin Organ & Piano Company | [1893] |
| Box 3 | Folder 45 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: McCormick Harvesting Company (2) | [1893] |
| Box 3 | Folder 46 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Mertens, Yann & Garnett Clothing Store | [1893] |
| Box 3 | Folder 47 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Michigan Stove Company | [1893] |
| Box 3 | Folder 48 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Fred Miller Brewing Company | [1893] |
| Box 3 | Folder 49 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Milwaukee Harvester Company | [1893] |
| Box 4 | Folder 1 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: National Sewing Machine Company (3) | [1893] |
| Box 4 | Folder 2 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Nelson Morris & Company (3) | [1893] |
| Box 4 | Folder 3 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Nevius Haviland “Efficient Spring Rollers” | [1893] |
| Box 4 | Folder 4 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: New Orleans Brewing Association | [1893] |
| Box 4 | Folder 5 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: New York Condensed Milk Company, Eagle Brand | [1893] |
| Box 4 | Folder 6 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Northwestern Dental College | [1893] |
| Box 4 | Folder 7 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Pabst Milwaukee | [1893] |
| Box 4 | Folder 8 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Pears Soap | [1893] |
| Box 4 | Folder 9 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Sir John Powers & Son, John’s Lane Distillery | [1893] |
| Box 4 | Folder 10 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Round Oak Stove | [1893] |
| Box 4 | Folder 11 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Rumford Chemical Works, “The Handy Memorandum” | [1893] |
| Box 4 | Folder 12 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Russia Cement Company | [1893] |
| Box 4 | Folder 13 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Conrad Seip Brewing Company | [1893] |
| Box 4 | Folder 14 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Simon & Companie, Manufacture d’Habillements pour Hommes et Enfants | [1893] |
| Box 4 | Folder 15 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Singer Manufacturing Company | [1893] |
| Box 4 | Folder 16 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Singer Manufacturing Company, “Costumes of All Nations” | [1893] |
| Box 4 | Folder 17 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Sohmer Cartoons, “From puck, Judge & Frank Leslies” | [1893] |
| Box 4 | Folder 18 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Standard Sewing Machine Company | [1893] |
| Box 4 | Folder 19 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Swift & Company (5) | [1893] |
| Box 4 | Folder 20 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: U.S. Printing Company, U.S. & National Playing Cards | [1893] |
| Box 4 | Folder 21 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Vose & Son Pianos (2) | [1893] |
| Box 4 | Folder 22 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Washburne Crosby Company | [1893] |
| Box 4 | Folder 23 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Western Electric Company | [1893] |
| Box 4 | Folder 24 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Whitman Agricultural | [1893] |
| Box 4 | Folder 25 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Wolfe’s Schiedem Aromatic Spices | [1893] |
| Box 4 | Folder 26 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Woonsocket Rubber Boots & Boots | [1893] |
| Box 4 | Folder 27 | Souvenir Advertisement Trade Card: Worcester Corset, Company (2) | [1893] |
| Box 4 | Folder 28 | Souvenir Portfolio – “World’s Fair News” | [1893] |
| Box 4 | Folder 29 | Stock Certificate: One Share (Green) issued to Henriette Wolter | [1893] |
| Box 4 | Folder 30 | Subscription Notice: Unidentified Event | [1893] |
| Box 4 | Folder 31 | Subscription Notice: “Art of the World” | [1893] |
| Box 4 | Folder 32 | Tickets: Miscellaneous | [1893] |
| Box 4 | Folder 33 | Tickets: Chicago Day (13) | 1893 October 9 |
| Box 4 | Folder 34 | Tickets: Children’s - Chicago Day (2), Special Ticket (1) | 1893 October 9 |
| Box 4 | Folder 35 | Tickets: Dedication Ceremonies, Complimentary (4) | 1892 October 20-22 |
| Box 4 | Folder 36 | Tickets: Entrance to Miscellaneous Fair Buildings | 1893 May 1 |
| Box 4 | Folder 37 | Tickets: General Admission (9) | [1893] |
| Box 4 | Folder 38 | Tickets: Manhattan Day (5) | 1893 October 21 |
| Box 4 | Folder 39 | Tickets: Miscellaneous Musical Features (8) | [1893] |
| Box 4 | Folder 40 | Tickets: Opening Ceremonies (5) | 1893 May 1 |
| Box 5 | Folder 13 | Tickets: Ralph W. Jerman’s Collections, World’s Fair Consessionaire’s Souvenir Tickets. Chicago, Hyde Park | [1893] |
| Box 4 | Folder 41 | Tickets: Special Rail Accommodations | [1893] |
| Box 4 | Folder 42 | Tickets: World’s Congress Auxiliary - Inaugural Ceremonies (2) | 1892 October 21 |
| Box 4 | Folder 43 | Typescript: Chicago & the World’s Fair | 1927 April 27 |
