 
In addition to the collecting activity that Putnam supervised, the WCE housed ethnographic exhibits provided by dozens of international commissions (both private and state- or colonial-government supported) including those from Australia, Brazil, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Colombia, Ecuador, Egypt, India, Italy, Japan, Java, Mexico, Sweden, Korea, and elsewhere around the globe. For-profit concessions mostly were located on the Midway Plaisance; these concessions had to pay an exhibition fee and/or remit part of their profits to the management of the WCE corporation.7
Little could Putnam have imagined that his pioneering work to develop museum and university departments of anthropology would result in Chicago becoming home not only to one of the premier museum anthropology collections in the world, but also to some of the leading university anthropology programs as well. In Chicago today, there are dozens of thriving undergraduate anthropology programs, as well as Ph.D. training programs to train professional Anthropologists at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Northwestern (including faculty from The Field Museum); The University of Chicago, and elsewhere.
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