Featured on PDR in the collection Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained by Henry Lee (1883)

Whether through their gleaming, glittering promotion of imagined (ever-improving) technological futures or their troubling “human zoo” displays of colonial peoples, a few World Fairs and Universal Expositions — the Great Exhibition of 1851 or Chicago World’s Fair of 1890 perhaps — have lived long in the imagination. Most, however, have not: the International Fisheries Exhibition of 1883 is among their number.