Quick List Info
Dates Open - May 1 to November 2, 1873. 186 days. Open Sundays.
Attendance - 7,254,687 total with 2,196,360 free. (5,058,327 paid). Approximately 4,000 workmen per day.
International Participants - 36 nations and 19 plus colonies.
Total Cost - 19,123,270 florins (guldens), $9,561,635. $7.85 million for buildings. Estimated total, including participants, $12 million.
Site Acreage - 280-582 acres listed in various sources. Held in Imperial Park, the Prater, on the border of the Danube River.
Sanction and Type - Prior to the Bureau of International
Exhibitions. Vienna 1873 would be considered a Universal scale registered event in today's categories, but perhaps more on the 5 year schedule, than 0 year of the decade. There was an official government appropriation for the fair with King Franz-Joseph signing the ordinance for the fair organization.
Ticket Cost - Price of Adult Ticket 1 gulden ($.473) M-F, $.395 Sundays/Festival Days. Season tickets were 100 florin, $47.30 for men, half price for women. Per Capita $0.162.
Photo top center: Chromolithograph of the Rotunde and 1873 Vienna World's Fair, 1873, original source unknown. Courtesy Pinterest. Column Top: Entrance to the 1873 Exposition, 1873, Original source unknown. Courtesy Pinterest. Bottom: Map of the fairgrounds, 1873, likely Fair Authority. Courtesy Pinterest.
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