Visitors to the World's Columbian Exposition look out over the Basin and the Court of Honor. This view from the roof of the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building looks from southeast to northwest over the Grand Basin. #

People sit on steps along the Court of Honor lagoon beneath a sculpture of a draft horse and teamster by sculptors Daniel Chester French and Edward Clark Potter. The large domed building is the Administration Building, with the Electricity Building in the background at right. #

A bird's-eye view of the fairgrounds from the north end, looking south. At lower left, four passenger cars are stopped at Mount Vernon Station along the fair's three-mile-long electric-powered elevated Intramural Railway system. The shoreline of Lake Michigan is seen at left, many of the 37 State Buildings appear in the middle of the image, and the domes and rooftops of most of the Great Exhibit Halls stand in the background. #

The original Ferris wheel stands above the Midway Plaisance. With a diameter of 250 feet, this carnival ride was designed and built by George Washington Gale Ferris Jr., who had bid to create a monument for the exposition that would rival the Eiffel Tower, which had been built for the Paris International Exposition of 1889. The wheel's 36 cars were capable of holding 60 people each, and a 50-cent ticket gave passengers two full revolutions, taking about 20 minutes. #

A gondola is rowed past the Café de la Marine, a popular restaurant situated at the northern end of the Lagoon, alongside several other themed restaurants, including a Japanese teahouse, a soda fountain, and a Swedish café. #

An interior view of the Agricultural Building, looking down from the Gallery level, showing exhibits staged by some of the U.S. states, at lower left, and Canada, at lower right #

Passengers ride in an electric launch past the Statue of the Republic. The 65-foot-tall statue, covered in gold leaf, was meant to represent the strength of the American republic. It stood at the northeastern corner of the Grand Basin, in front of the Grand Arch of the 550-foot-long Peristyle that allowed water access to Lake Michigan. #

The Great Wharf Moving Sidewalk carried passengers up and down a long pier between steamships and the fairgrounds. The sidewalk had both seated and standing sections. #

The Illinois was a full-scale replica battleship, constructed in place on wooden pilings and made out of brick, stucco, and wood. The exhibit was built and operated by the U.S. Navy, to demonstrate its new Indiana-class battleships. #

A view of "Old Vienna" on the Midway. The sign reads "Old Vienna, an exact architectural reproduction of streets and buildings of Vienna as it actually appeared 200 years ago." #

A large diorama presents a scene from the Greely Expedition (Lady Franklin Bay Expedition), showing Lieutenant Adolphus Greely, of the U.S. Army, welcoming Lieutenant James Lockwood and Sergeant David Brainard back to Fort Conger, in the Canadian Arctic, after they had just set a new "farthest north" record in 1881. #

Visitors walk past the Kīlauea Cyclorama on the Midway, with the Ferris wheel in the background. The Kīlauea Cyclorama housed a striking depiction of Hawaii's Kīlauea volcano, painted on an 11-foot-tall canvas covering the walls of a room with a 90-foot circumference. #