South African and International Exhibition
Henry Loch, High Commissioner for Southern Africa who opened the exhibition
Overview
BIE-class	Unrecognized exposition
Name	South African and International Exhibition
Area	30 acres (12 ha)
Visitors	400 000
Location
Country	Cape Colony
City	Kimberley
Venue	Public Gardens
Coordinates	28°44′34″S 24°46′36″E / 28.7427111111°S 24.7767583333°E / -28.7427111111; 24.7767583333
Timeline
Opening	8 September 1892
Closure	10 January 1893

The South African and International Exhibition was a world's fair held in Kimberley, Cape Colony in 1892 to promote trade and labour.

The exhibition

The exhibition was opened by Henry Loch, High Commissioner for Southern Africa on 8 September 1892^[1] and closed 20 January 1893.^[2]

Cecil Rhodes, Prime Minister of Cape Colony, decided that the exhibition should be held in Kimberley. It was held in the Public Gardens of Kimberley^[1] (now Queen's Park)^[3] on a 30-acre site, with corrugated iron buildings^[2] designed D. W. Greatbatch.^[1]

There were art displays including paintings from the Royal Collection, mineral displays of diamonds, coal, crocidolite, diamonds, gold and silver, mining machinery,^[2] and sheep shearing equipment.^[4]

400 000 people attended, and the fair lost £14,195,^[2] with the loss being covered by Rhodes.^[1]

Legacy

The De Beers exhibit was taken to be displayed at the 1893 Chicago exhibition.^[2] The art hall was converted to be used by the Kimberley Rifles, and subsequently used as a typhoid hospital during the Boer war.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Cape Colony: South African International Exhibition, Kimberley". Retrieved 29 September 2019.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "1892 Kimberley South African and International Exposition – What Remains". Retrieved 29 September 2019.
^ "Queens Park Kimberley • Kimberley • CITY PORTAL". Retrieved 29 September 2019.
^ "From the Great Exhibition to the Festival of Britain, 1851–1951" (PDF). p. 8. Archived (PDF) from the original on 21 September 2017. Retrieved 12 June 2017.

World exhibitions

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Africa	Freetown 1865 Cape Town 1877 Kimberley 1892–1893 Johannesburg 1936–1937
Asia	Calcutta 1883–1884 Hanoi 1902 Nanking 1910 Semarang 1914 Hangzhou 1929 Taihoku (Taipei) 1935 Nagoya 1937 Clark 1998 Shenyang 2006 Chiang Mai 2011–2012 Udon Thani 2026
Europe	London 1760 Dublin 1853 Manchester 1857 Porto 1865 Stockholm 1866 London 1871–1874 Lyon 1872 Vienna 1873 Amsterdam 1883 Liverpool 1886 London 1886 Copenhagen 1888 Glasgow 1888 Frankfurt 1891 Prague 1891 Lyon 1894 Oporto 1894 Berlin 1896 Stockholm 1897 Glasgow 1901 Cork 1902 London 1905 London 1906 Marseille 1906 Dublin 1907 London 1908 Zaragoza 1908 London 1910 Dresden 1911 London 1911 London 1912 Lyon 1914 Cologne 1914 London 1914 Kristiania 1914 Malmö 1914 London 1921 Marseille 1922 Gothenburg 1923 British Empire Exhibition 1924–1925 Antwerp 1930 Stockholm 1930 Paris 1931 Porto 1934 Glasgow 1938 Stockholm 1943
North America	New York City 1826–1897 Bryant Park, New York City 1853 Atlanta 1881 Louisville 1883–1887 New Orleans 1884 Atlanta 1887 San Francisco 1894 Atlanta 1895 Nashville 1897 Omaha 1898 Buffalo 1901 Charleston 1901–1902 Portland, Oregon 1905 Jamestown 1907 Seattle 1909 Knoxville 1913 San Diego 1915–1917 Bronx 1918 Philadelphia 1926 San Diego 1935–1936 Dallas 1936 Cleveland 1936–1937 Dallas 1937 San Francisco 1939–1940 Chicago 1940 New York City 1964–1965
Oceania	Melbourne 1866 Sydney 1870 Melbourne 1875 Brisbane 1876 Sydney 1879 Adelaide 1887 Melbourne 1888 Dunedin 1889 Christchurch 1906 Auckland 1913–1914 Dunedin 1925 Wellington 1939–1940
South America	Lima 1872 Santiago 1875 Quito 1909 Buenos Aires 1910 Rio de Janeiro 1922

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v t e List of national and world's fairs in Africa
1865 Sierra Leone Exhibition 1877 South African International Exhibition (Cape Town, Cape Colony) 1892 South African and International Exhibition (Kimberley, Cape Colony) 1915 Casablanca Fair (Casablanca, French protectorate in Morocco) 1930 Oran Exposition (Oran, French Algeria) 1936 Empire Exhibition, South Africa (Johannesburg, Union of South Africa)