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Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 15:19, 3 August 2016: 4,443 × 3,103 (3.76 MB): Scewing {{Information |Description=Looking West From Peristyle, Court of Honor and Grand Basin of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition (Chicago, Illinois) |Source=The Project Gutenberg EBook of Official Views Of The World's Columbian Exposition |Date=1893 |Au...
The Columbian exchange, also known as the Columbian interchange, was the widespread transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the New World (the Americas) in the Western Hemisphere, and the Old World (Afro-Eurasia) in the Eastern Hemisphere, from the late 15th century on.
The murals of Chiik Naab represent daily life scenes of the ancient Maya society, a rarely represented topic that gives the murals a high level of importance since the vast majority of Maya pictorial representations are either ceremonial, religious or political topics mostly glorifying the image of deities or rulers while the Chiik Naab murals ...
Arnold, C.D. Portfolio of Views: The World's Columbian Exposition. National Chemigraph Company, Chicago & St. Louis, 1893. Bancroft, Hubert Howe. The Book of the Fair: An Historical and Descriptive Presentation of the World's Science, Art and Industry, As Viewed through the Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893. New York: Bounty, 1894.
Depiction of the classical model of the triangular trade Depiction of the triangular trade of slaves, sugar, and rum with New England instead of Europe as the third corner
When the New world was colonized by the Old around 1500 CE there was a major movement of cultivated crops, which was known as the Columbian Exchange. The Old world brought back seeds for foods such as corn, peppers, tomatoes and pineapples. In exchange, Europeans brought with them apples, pears, stone and citrus fruits, bananas and coconuts.
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W. Dodge Prize for the best picture by a woman. [1]: 221 Esther Coffin Grapes Madison Square Tower at Night: Watercolor William Anderson Coffin: A Pennsylvania Farm After a Thunder Shower Moonlight in Harvest Twilight Early Morning Evening September Breeze: Oil on canvas George W. Cohen The Reading (A Tale of the Sea) Oil on canvas Alfred ...