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The Great Aussie Apple Race to the 1893 World’s Fair
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The Great Aussie Apple Race to the 1893 World’s Fair

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The Great Aussie Apple Race to the 1893 World’s Fair

By Scott|2023-09-23T18:10:16-05:00October 21st, 2023|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Horticultural Building, New South Wales|

In the spring of 1893, two apple barrels in New South Wales, Australia, embarked on separate paths in a race around the globe. Heading in opposite directions, they reunited inside the Horticultural Building at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Which apples won, red or gold? How many days did it take? How did they stay fresh for so long? Find out about their journey in the story below, from the June 7, 1893, issue of the Chicago [...]

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Fair of the Future—Chicago’s International Exposition, A.D. 2000: Second Prize
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Fair of the Future—Chicago’s International Exposition, A.D. 2000: Second Prize

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Fair of the Future—Chicago’s International Exposition, A.D. 2000: Second Prize

By Scott|2024-03-29T10:07:36-05:00March 30th, 2024|Categories: REPRINTS|

Fair of the Future—Chicago’s International Exposition, A.D. 2000: Second Prize “Greatest of All” by Mary F. Arnold Continued from: Introduction First Prize: “Chicago’s World’s Fair, A.D. 2000” by Percival Owen They were smartly clad in knickerbockers and silk jackets, the latter slashed and trimmed with soft brown leather, buttoned to their throats. Each wore a belt, leggings and shoes of the brown leather and a brown sailor hat. The girl wore, also, a short silk skirt reaching to her [...]

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Nixon Waterman Dreams of the World’s Fair
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Nixon Waterman Dreams of the World’s Fair

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Nixon Waterman Dreams of the World’s Fair

By Scott|2024-01-18T09:55:52-06:00January 19th, 2024|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Nixon Waterman, observation tower|

A prolific writer of prose and verse, Nixon Waterman (1859–1944) is credited with having conducted the first all-verse column in newspaper history, for the Chicago Herald. He lived and wrote in Chicago in the years before and during the 1893 World’s Fair. Waterman’s light-hearted and pun-riddled verse, often on topics of Christopher Columbus or the emerging Exposition fairgrounds in Jackson Park, filled spots throughout the run Jewell N. Halligan’s Illustrated World’s Fair, published from 1891 through 1893. “Without his [...]

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150. Picturesque World’s Fair – Interior of the Mining Building
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150. Picturesque World’s Fair – Interior of the Mining Building

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150. Picturesque World’s Fair – Interior of the Mining Building

By Randy|2023-04-02T03:28:28-05:00April 2nd, 2023|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: California State Building, Germany, Mines and Mining Building, Montana State Building, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR|

INTERIOR OF THE MINING BUILDING.—There was much in the Mines and Mining Building the value of which was not apparent save to the expert, bit there was a great deal there also which was glitteringly attractive, and a great deal that was curious even to the casual visitor. The display of gold and silver made from some of the states was striking, as were the exhibits of precious stones from different countries, and the great monuments of coal were [...]

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Foreign Buildings

By Scott|2022-10-02T10:18:03-05:00May 1st, 2022|

The Foreign Buildings While approximately 50 foreign nations and colonies exhibited at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, 18 countries erected buildings. Most of these formed a campus of Foreign Buildings on the northeast side of the fairgrounds, between the North Pond and Lake Michigan. The Japanese Ho-o-den stood on the north end of the Wooded Island. As with the State Buildings, these structures were architecturally diverse. Some were designed by architects from the nation represented while others were built [...]

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When Miss Inquisitive Poked Hercules at the 1893 World’s Fair
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When Miss Inquisitive Poked Hercules at the 1893 World’s Fair

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When Miss Inquisitive Poked Hercules at the 1893 World’s Fair

By Scott|2023-04-09T09:01:06-05:00January 25th, 2022|Categories: HISTORY|Tags: Palace of Fine Arts|

For six months in 1893, much of the world’s greatest artworks were on exhibit in the Art Place at the World’s Fair in Chicago. Not everyone in town knew how to behave themselves around it. The Palace of Fine Arts by Childe Hassam. Within weeks of the opening of the Columbian Exposition, one oil painting was nearly damaged by an overly enthusiastic visitor to the galleries. Hercules Wrestling with Death for the Body of Alcestes was one [...]

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Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi’s Visit to the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Part 2
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Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi’s Visit to the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Part 2

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Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi’s Visit to the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Part 2

By Scott|2024-01-28T12:05:19-06:00July 6th, 2021|Categories: HISTORY|Tags: Art Institute of Chicago, Buffalo Bill, Carter Harrison, Columbian Liberty Bell, Eugene Field, Ferd Peck, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, Gorham Manufacturing Company, Harry G. Selfridge, Palace of Fine Arts, Philip Armour, Union League Club of Chicago|

Continued from Part 1 Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi in 1880. “I come to see the American side of the Fair” On September 10, 1893, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and his wife Jeanne-Émilie arrived in Chicago and settled into the Hotel Metropole. This hotel stood on Michigan Avenue at 23rd Street, just south of the tony Prairie Avenue District called home by many of Chicago’s elite citizens, including Marshall Field, George Pullman, Ferdinand ("Ferd") W. Peck, and John Jacob Glessner. [...]

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Frederick Law Olmsted’s 1893 Report to the American Institute of Architects
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Frederick Law Olmsted’s 1893 Report to the American Institute of Architects

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Frederick Law Olmsted’s 1893 Report to the American Institute of Architects

By Scott|2020-04-26T15:18:28-05:00April 26th, 2020|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Daniel Burnham, Frederick Law Olmsted, Henry Codman, Jackson Park, Rudolph Ulrich|

Equaling or surpassing the grandeur of the White City palaces were the awesome scenic grounds of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. The eminent landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, who had laid out New York's Central Park and the Chicago suburb of Riverside, transformed Jackson Park (“the least park-like ground within miles of the city”) into a garden of stunning beauty enjoyed by tens of millions of visitors. In this report to the American Institute of Architects (published The American [...]

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