1893 World's Columbian Expo LIBERTY BELL Photo C.D. Arnold RARE

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1893 World's Columbian Expo LIBERTY BELL Photo C.D. Arnold RARE
Beautiful photo by C.D. Arnold (Chief of Photography from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition) of the LIBERTY BELL, set proudly on display in the Pennsylvania Building during its time at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.
Marked with copyright 1893 C.D. Arnold
On April 29, 1893, thirteen black horses with one hundred equestrial Chicago Hussars of the Illinois National Guard escorted the bell to the “White City”—the hundreds of buildings erected on the shore of Lake Michigan. The procession stretched for two miles “through crowds of enthusiastic people who cheered the Emblem of Liberty every step of the way—greater homage was never paid King or Queen,” wrote a Chicago newspaper. Most of some 27 million visitors gazed at the bell, displayed in the Pennsylvania building on a circular platform surrounded by a gilt railing built to keep at a distance the multitudes wanting to caress the bell.
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