Ferris Wheel (1893)
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The original Ferris Wheel, sometimes also referred to as the Chicago Wheel, was designed and built by George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. as the centerpiece of the Midway at the 1893 World's Columbian E
George Washington Gale Ferris Jr.'s wheel
The original 1893 Chicago Ferris Wheel
View through the Ferris Wheel
The Ferris Wheel in Lincoln Park, Chicago, looking north from Wrightwood Avenue
The Louisiana Purchase Exposition, informally known as the St. Louis World's Fair, was an international exposition held in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, from April 30 to December 1, 1904. Local,
Ferris Wheel (1893)
…264 ft). The Ferris Wheel was dismantled and then rebuilt in Lincoln Park, Chicago, in 1895, and dismantled and rebuilt a third and final time for the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri. It was ultimately demolished in 1906. In 2007, the wheel's 45 foot, 70-ton axle was reportedly discovered buried near where it…
Poster for the exposition painted by Alphonse Mucha
The Government Building at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition
Palace of Liberal Arts
Festival Hall