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"Mammoth Cheese Ticket": Admission Ticket to enter the World's Colombian Exposition only on Manhattan Day, October 21st, 1893.
"Mammoth Cheese Ticket"

Admission Ticket to enter the World's Colombian Exposition only on Manhattan Day, October 21st, 1893.

Name/Title

Card, Trade

Entry/Object ID

000.48.1

Scope and Content

This is a ticket for "Manhattan Day" at the Chicago World Fair in 1893. Off white. Two sided. Blue Print. On the left hand side is a drawing of the Statue of Liberty. There is a line border. Front: World's Columbian Exposition EXPRESSLY FOR MANHATTAN DAY. Oct. 21st 1893. No. 471304 (in red ink) H.K. Higinbosham President. Back: Three different borders. In the middle is a circle and inside the circle is the following: Left is a woman sitting. In the middle is an eagle in a pedestal. Right is a woman holding a staff. Printed underneath STATE OF NEW YORK