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120. Picturesque World’s Fair – A Load of Michigan Pine Logs
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120. Picturesque World’s Fair – A Load of Michigan Pine Logs

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120. Picturesque World’s Fair – A Load of Michigan Pine Logs

By Randy|2021-06-14T08:09:17-05:00June 14th, 2021|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Forestry Building, Logger's Camp, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR|

A LOAD OF MICHIGAN PINE LOGS.—The lumber industry in Michigan is conducted on a grand scale, and something of the methods pursued was illustrated by a firm which contributed a single load of logs to the Exposition. Twenty-five saw logs were shown in a single load at the Centennial Exposition. Michigan simply doubled this. Never before was seen such a load of logs. It consisted of fifty magnificent lengths of white pine, borne on a single sled, containing forty-six [...]

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PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR – The Michigan Building (p. 81)
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PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR – The Michigan Building (p. 81)

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PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR – The Michigan Building (p. 81)

By Randy|2019-07-06T09:44:26-05:00July 6th, 2019|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Michigan State Building, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR, State Building|

PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR. AN ELABORATE COLLECTION OF COLORED VIEWS Page 81 – THE MICHIGAN BUILDING THE MICHIGAN BUILDING.—Of all the State buildings on the Fair grounds none was more popular than the Michigan Building. Standing near the Fifty-seventh street entrance, its handsome front catching the eye of visitors, its doors always hospitably open, not to Michigan people alone but to the multitude, and its spacious rooms and luxurious appointments inviting all to their enjoyment, it was generally the resting [...]

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(Re)Introducing the Dana Palace of Fine Arts
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(Re)Introducing the Dana Palace of Fine Arts

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(Re)Introducing the Dana Palace of Fine Arts

By Scott|2024-05-18T09:48:10-05:00May 18th, 2024|Categories: NEWS|Tags: parody|

Dear Mr. Burnham, Please take a look at the attached press release drafted by Chief Halsey Ives of the Fine Arts Department. Are we to proceed with this? I urge caution. With concern, Moses P. Handy Publicity and Promotion May 14, 1893 (Re)Introducing the Dana Palace of Fine Arts The World’s Fair is open, the guidebooks are printed, and the maps are distributed. And yet, winds of change are blowing through the Windy City. The Palace of Fine Arts [...]

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“Sick of the picturesque”: Hamlin Garland oversells the 1893 World’s Fair
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“Sick of the picturesque”: Hamlin Garland oversells the 1893 World’s Fair

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“Sick of the picturesque”: Hamlin Garland oversells the 1893 World’s Fair

By Scott|2024-04-10T18:43:39-05:00April 12th, 2024|Categories: HISTORY, REPRINTS|Tags: Bessie Potter Vonnoh, Congress of Authors, Congress of General Education, Hamlin Garland, Janet Scudder, White Rabbits, World's Congress Auxiliary|

Note: Hamlin Garland will be inducted into the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame at a ceremony on Tuesday, April 16, 2024, from 5:30—8 pm at the Chicago History Museum. Further information about Hamlin Garland can be found at the Hamlin Garland Society website https://www.garlandsociety.org/ “Sell the cook stove if necessary and come. You must see this fair.” This oft-repeated quote, brimming with enthusiasm and promise for the 1893 World’s Fair, was Hamlin Garland’s enticement for his parents to visit [...]

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25 Impressions of the 1893 World’s Fair
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25 Impressions of the 1893 World’s Fair

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25 Impressions of the 1893 World’s Fair

By Scott|2024-04-05T08:27:41-05:00April 10th, 2024|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Administration Building, Anthropological Building, Charles Dudley Warner, Congress of Authors, Convent of La Rabida, Court of Honor, Electricity Building, Empire State Express, Eugene Field, Ferris Wheel, Fisheries Building, Frederick Ward Putnam, gondolas, Harriet Monroe, Helen Keller, Henry B. Fuller, Ho-o-den, illumination, Intramural Railway, Julian Hawthorne, Kate Field, Krupp Gun, Lake Michigan, MacMonnies Fountain, Merchant Tailors' Building, Midway Plaisance, Mines and Mining Building, Palace of Fine Arts, Peristyle, rolling chairs, search lights, Statue of the Republic, Street in Cairo, Theodore Roosevelt, Transportation Building, U.S. Government Building|

Toward the close of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, The Critic invited twenty-five notable scholars, writers, and leaders of the day to offer their brief impressions of the World’s Fair. At such a monumental event with so many novelties … what impressed them the most? It is interesting how frequently these contributors sing the same notes as they rhapsodize about the fairgrounds at night and the illumination of the Court of Honor, praise (except for Henry Fuller!) [...]

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The Ninth Wonder of the World: Turning Day into Night at the 1893 Columbian Exposition
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The Ninth Wonder of the World: Turning Day into Night at the 1893 Columbian Exposition

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The Ninth Wonder of the World: Turning Day into Night at the 1893 Columbian Exposition

By Scott|2024-04-05T08:26:47-05:00April 6th, 2024|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Auditorium, Charles T. Yerkes, Court of Honor, Diana, electric fountains, Grand Basin, illumination, search lights|

“However grand, complete and astonishing the World's Fair may appear to the public by daylight, it is at night that it can be seen in all its splendor and magnificence,” wrote the World’s Columbian Exposition Illustrated [read the article here]. Another description of the nightly illumination of the Court of Honor comes from the newspaper story reprinted below, originally from an (unknown) Chicago newspaper. Turning Day into Night “After dark at the World's Fair will be one of the [...]

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“A character of its own”: The Chicago Public Library of 1893
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“A character of its own”: The Chicago Public Library of 1893

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“A character of its own”: The Chicago Public Library of 1893

By Scott|2024-03-21T18:34:13-05:00April 3rd, 2024|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Chicago Public Library, Congress of Librarians, Congress on Literature, World's Congress Auxiliary|

Celebrate libraries! April 3 is National Library Giving Day and April 6 is National Library Day. Consider making a donation to the Chicago Public Library or another of your choice. Dr. Emil G. Hirsch, President of the Board of Directors of the Chicago Public Library, spoke with pride about his institution at the 1893 World’s Fair. He addressed the Congress of Librarians—which merged with the annual meeting of the American Library Association as part of the Congress on Literature, [...]

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

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

By Scott|2024-03-30T09:20:54-05:00March 31st, 2024|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: L. Frank Baum|

Fair of the Future—Chicago’s International Exposition, A.D. 2000: Third Prize “Yesterday at the Exposition [From the Times-Herald, June 27, 2000]” by L. Frank Baum Continued from: Introduction First Prize: “Chicago’s World’s Fair, A.D. 2000” by Percival Owen Second Prize: “Greatest of All” by Mary F. Arnold Yesterday was a busy day at the exposition. The pneumatic cars[1] were discharged from the Lake Front Station at intervals of one minute the entire day, and every carriage was packed. One car, [...]

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

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

By Scott|2024-03-30T09:20:25-05:00March 29th, 2024|Categories: REPRINTS|

Fair of the Future—Chicago’s International Exposition, A.D. 2000: First Prize “Chicago’s World’s Fair, A.D. 2000” by Percival Owen Continued from: Introduction The exposition was held on Lake Michigan. It was at first proposed to stand Lake Michigan on end, as was done with Lake Cayuga at the Ithaca fair of 1992.[1] The sail to Mackinaw would then have been a feature, as Hudson’s Bay and the Rocky Mountains would have been in sight; but space for buildings would then [...]

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