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Auction: 316 - The Collector's Series
Lot: 687

World´s Columbian Exposition 1893 Visitors Official Certificate of the great Ferris Wheel Register. In Midway Plaisance. 1893. Brown decorative borders. Blue underprint of the Great Ferris Wheel. Red seal. Portrait of George W.Y. Ferris, designer and constructor. A truly rare and desirable piece, perhaps the most sought after example of World´s Columbian Exposition paper ephemora. VF+. The Great Ferris Wheel was the centerpiece of the 1893 World´s Columbian Exposition. The diameter of the wheel was 250 feet. Each of its 36 cars held 60 people who were treated to two full revolutions taking about twenty minutes. When running at full capacity it carried 2,160 passengers per trip at 50 cents each. When the Columbian Exposition ended it was sold and operated as an amusement park ride. It was finally destroyed for scrap metal in 1906.

Estimate
$1,500 to $2,500