1893 World's Columbian Exposition Chicago Day Ticket C 86234

Chicago Day fell on October 9, 1893, the twenty-second anniversary of the fire that burned the city in 1871. Paid admissions reached 713,646, the largest single-day attendance any world's fair had recorded to that point. The eagle rising from a nest of flames at the center of the ticket is the city's own emblem of what came after the fire. The letter C and the serial 86234 are printed in red and repeated on both halves. Below them is the facsimile signature of H. N. Higinbotham as president of the exposition. The reverse is given over to a vignette of Fort Dearborn, Chicago, 1833, the frontier post the city grew out of. The left-hand coupon is still joined along its perforation and reads NOT GOOD IF DETACHED. Condition: please see the photographs.