The National Park Service explores “Women’s History at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition” with a survey of some related NPS sites, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Palmer House Hotel, Lorado Taft Midway Studios, a home belonging to Lois Lilley Howe (who submitted a design for the Woman’s Building at the 1893 World’s Fair), and—of course—Jackson Park Historic Landscape District and Midway Plaisance.

The dining room of the Palmer House Hotel at the time of the 1893 World’s Fair. [Image from Pierce, James Wilson Photographic History of the World’s Fair and Sketch of the City of Chicago: A Guide to the World’s Fair and Chicago. Lennox Publishing Co., 1893.]