Quick List Info
Dates Open - January 27 to July 4, 1894. Fair was open Sundays. Open 159 days.
Attendance - Total paid (during fair) 1,315,022, Total free (visitors) 162,019, Total paid and free visitors 1,477,041. Total staff/employees 742,399; Total visitors and employees 2,219,440.
International Participants - 38 Nations and Colonies.
Total Cost - $1,193,260.70.
Site Acreage - 200 acres in today's Golden Gate Park.
Sanction and Type - Prior to the Bureau of International Exhibitions. Would be considered a Special style Registered event today like those on the 5 years of the decade. There was no congressional approval.
Ticket Cost - Admission fee during the exposition was 50 cents for adults, 25 cents for children. Commutation ticket (season pass) was sold, good for 100 admissions, for $40. Admission fee was reduced on Sundays and after 5 p.m. on other days, (Saturday and special days excepted) to 25 cents and 10 cents for children under 12.
Photo top center: Lithograph postcard of the California Midwinter International Exposition, 1894. Courtesy foundsf.org/Pinterest. Column Top: Central area of the fair, now the Music Concourse in Golden Gate Park. Courtesy Wikipedia Commons.

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