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C. D. (Charles Dudley) Arnold
1844–1927
Known for preserving grand moments of American history on film, this Canadian-born photographer became the official eye of two major world’s fairs. His pictures of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition remain some of the best-known visual records of the event.
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Born in Port Stanley, Ontario, in 1844, he built his career in Buffalo, New York, and became known for architectural and landscape photography.
He is especially remembered as the official photographer of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, where he documented the fair’s buildings and grounds in remarkable detail. He later also served as official photographer for the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo.
Today, his photographs are held by major libraries and museums, and they continue to be valued both as works of photography and as vivid records of late 19th-century public life.