| Wicker chairs with wheels provided taxi service around the fairgrounds. Horse-drawn carriages were not permitted on the grounds because the horses would create unpleasant conditions that contrasted the image of a clean, White City envisioned by the Fair promoters. |
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Johnson, Rossiter, ed. History of the World’s Columbian Exposition, v. 1. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1897.
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