Editing World's Columbian Exposition (section)

=== Visitors ===
[[File:Front of ticket for admission to the World's Columbian Exposition.jpg|thumb|Front of ticket for admission to the World's Columbian Exposition]]

[[Helen Keller]], along with her mentor [[Anne Sullivan]] and Dr. [[Alexander Graham Bell]], visited the fair in summer 1893. Keller described the fair in her autobiography ''[[The Story of My Life (biography)|The Story of My Life]]''.<ref>{{cite web|title = The Story of My Life.|url = http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/keller/life/life.html|website = digital.library.upenn.edu |access-date = 2016-01-03|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160114165042/http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/keller/life/life.html|archive-date = 2016-01-14|url-status = live}}</ref> Early in July, a [[Wellesley College]] English teacher named [[Katharine Lee Bates]] visited the fair. The White City later inspired the reference to "alabaster cities" in her poem and lyrics "[[America the Beautiful]]".<ref>[http://www.falmouthhistoricalsociety.org/05/klbates.htm "Falmouth Museums on the Green"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090123112337/http://www.falmouthhistoricalsociety.org/05/klbates.htm |date=2009-01-23 }}, Falmouth Historical Society</ref> The exposition was extensively reported by Chicago publisher [[William D. Boyce]]'s reporters and artists.<ref name="pett1">{{harvnb|Petterchak|2003|pp=17–18}}</ref> There is a very detailed and vivid description of all facets of this fair by the [[Persians|Persian]] traveler Mirza Mohammad Ali Mo'in ol-Saltaneh written in [[Persian language|Persian]]. He departed from [[Iran|Persia]] on April 20, 1892, especially for the purpose of visiting the World's Columbian Exposition.<ref>Muʿīn al-Salṭana, Muḥammad ʿAlī (Hāǧǧ Mīrzā), Safarnāma-yi Šīkāgū : ḵāṭirāt-i Muḥammad ʿAlī Muʿīn al-Salṭana bih Urūpā wa Āmrīkā : 1310 Hiǧrī-yi Qamarī / bih kūšiš-i Humāyūn Šahīdī, [Tihrān] : Intišrāt-i ʿIlmī, 1984, 1363/[1984].</ref>

[[Pierre de Coubertin]] visited the fair with his friends [[Paul Bourget]] and [[Samuel Jean de Pozzi]]. He devotes the first chapter of his book ''Souvenirs d'Amérique et de Grèce'' (1897) to the visit. [[Swami Vivekananda]] visited the fair to attend the [[Parliament of the World's Religions]] and delivered his famous speech ''Sisters and Brothers of America!''.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.swamivivekanandaquotes.org/2014/05/sisters-and-brothers-of-america.html|title=Sisters And Brothers Of America|website=www.swamivivekanandaquotes.org|access-date=2016-10-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161022153943/http://www.swamivivekanandaquotes.org/2014/05/sisters-and-brothers-of-america.html|archive-date=2016-10-22|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Kubota Beisen]] was an official delegate of Japan. As an artist, he sketched hundreds of scenes, some of which were later used to make woodblock print books about the Exhibition.<ref>BIJYUTSUHIN GAFU vol. 4, 1893{{full citation needed|date=May 2019}}</ref> Serial killer [[H. H. Holmes]] attended the fair with two of his eventual victims, Annie and Minnie Williams.
[[Bulgaria]]n writer [[Aleko Konstantinov]] visited the fair and wrote his [[nonfiction]] book ''[[To Chicago and Back]]''.