Essay Preview: LalaReport this essaynothuing really just wanted to go and look at others things..The Fair was immensely popular, drawing over 27 million visitors, including Frederick Douglass, Jane Addams, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Henry Blake Fuller, Scott Joplin, Walter Wyckoff, Edweard Muybridge, Henry Adams, W.D. Howells, and Hamlin Garland. It was widely publicized both nationally and internationally, and people traveled from all over the world to see the spectacle. Travelers came from the East by “Exposition Flyers” –Pullman coaches traveling at the amazing speed of 80 m.p.h — which gave “many Americans their first look at the country beyond the Alleghenies” (Donald Miller, 74) People left their factories, their farms, and their city businesses to participate in what was touted as the greatest cultural and entertainment event in the history of the world.

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