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John Ross Key's world's fair paintings.
Starting in 1893 with the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago to celebrate the four hundredth anniversary of Christopher Columbus's discovery of America, world's fairs were held in various American cities every few years and became popular showcases for the state of culture in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. These fairs included the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition held in Omaha in 1898, the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo in 1901, and the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in Saint Louis in 1904. While each was created to commemorate different aspects of the American experience, they were similar in many ways. All of them celebrated ...
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