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PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR – Music Hall, The Peristyle and the Movable Sidewalk (p. 39)
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PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR – Music Hall, The Peristyle and the Movable Sidewalk (p. 39)

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PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR – Music Hall, The Peristyle and the Movable Sidewalk (p. 39)

By Randy|2019-04-16T09:53:35-05:00March 12th, 2018|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Casino, Moving Sidewalk, Music Hall, Peristyle, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR|

PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR. AN ELABORATE COLLECTION OF COLORED VIEWS Page 39 – MUSIC HALL, THE PERISTYLE AND THE MOVABLE SIDEWALK MUSIC HALL, THE PERISTYLE AND THE MOVABLE SIDEWALK.—First to disappear totally from among the grander features of the Columbian Exposition were the Casino and Music Hall, the famous Peristyle and a portion of the Movable Sidewalk, destroyed by fire on the evening and night of January 8, 1894. The view given above shows all save the Casino, with which [...]

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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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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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159. Picturesque World’s Fair – The North Front of the Agriculture Building and Lawn
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159. Picturesque World’s Fair – The North Front of the Agriculture Building and Lawn

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159. Picturesque World’s Fair – The North Front of the Agriculture Building and Lawn

By Randy|2023-12-27T09:06:06-06:00December 27th, 2023|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Agricultural Building, colonnade, Grand Basin, Peristyle, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR, Statue of the Republic|

THE NORTH FRONT OF THE AGRICULTURE BUILDING, AND LAWN.—Between the magnificent Agriculture Building and the Grand Basin was a lawn not very broad, but nearly a thousand feet in length, resting the eye with its strip of green, and giving room for a just estimate of the architectural beauties displayed above. In the view given here is afforded not only a charming perspective of the Agriculture Building's graceful front, but of two Exposition features which commanded general admiration and [...]

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Literary Tributes to the World’s Fair
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Literary Tributes to the World’s Fair

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Literary Tributes to the World’s Fair

By Scott|2023-12-09T08:37:26-06:00December 9th, 2023|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Charles Dudley Warner, George W. Cable, Harriet Monroe, Henry B. Fuller, Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, Mary Hartwell Catherwood, Paul Bourget, Richard Watson Gilder, Walter Besant, William P. Trent|

Reprinted below are ten “Literary Tributes to the World’s Fair” from the October 1893 issue of The Dial, a literary magazine published in Chicago. The notable contributors are: Mary Hartwell Catherwood (1847—1902), Midwest author of popular historical romances, short stories, and poetry; Charles Dudley Warner (1829–1900), essayist and novelist best remembered as the co-author with Mark Twain of The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873); George W. Cable (1844–1925), novelist who portrayed Creole life in his native New [...]

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2023 Columbian Exposition Gift Guide
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2023 Columbian Exposition Gift Guide

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2023 Columbian Exposition Gift Guide

By Scott|2024-04-01T08:49:51-05:00December 1st, 2023|Categories: NEWS, PRODUCTS|Tags: Ferris Wheel, H. H. Holmes, Statue of the Republic|

If you are shopping for a gift to give a Columbian Exposition enthusiast or just want to treat yourself to a little something during the holiday season, check on these products relating to the 1893 World’s Fair. Note: We provide this announcement of new products without any compensation from vendors. Prices and availability subject to change. We already reported on a fun new World’s Fair board game, Chicago 1893: The City Beautiful, from Transit Tees ($40). Atlas Stationers has [...]

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The Marvel-ous Midway of “Loki” Season 2, Episode 3 “1893”
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The Marvel-ous Midway of “Loki” Season 2, Episode 3 “1893”

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The Marvel-ous Midway of “Loki” Season 2, Episode 3 “1893”

By Scott|2023-10-21T12:55:47-05:00October 21st, 2023|Categories: NEWS, VIDEO|Tags: Midway Plaisance|

On a branched timeline in the Marvel® multiverse, a few time travelers, a Norse trickster god, and an artificial intelligence disguised as an orange clock (and thought to be a ghost) visit the Midway Plaisance of the 1893 World’s Fair. Loki Season 2, Episode 3 “1893,” which premiered on Oct. 19, 2023, treated viewers to one of the most beautiful and faithful depictions of the World’s Columbian Exposition fairgrounds yet made for film or television. This wide-angle view [...]

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The Fair as a Spectacle, Part 4: A Transformation Scene
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The Fair as a Spectacle, Part 4: A Transformation Scene

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The Fair as a Spectacle, Part 4: A Transformation Scene

By Scott|2023-07-03T17:23:44-05:00July 3rd, 2023|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Charles Mulford Robinson, Convent of La Rabida, Court of Honor, fireworks, illumination, World's Congress Auxiliary|

Continued from Part 3 THE FAIR AS A SPECTACLE. How it seemed to a visitor—Strolling and dreaming by day and by night. By Charles Mulford Robinson Part 4: A Transformation Scene In such a mental condition, the best thing one could do was to take the Intramural Electric Railroad, itself a scientific exhibit, to the southern end of the grounds, and there to visit La Rabida. This was not part of a dream city, but of the living world—the [...]

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The Fair as a Spectacle, Part 2: In Search of the Picturesque
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The Fair as a Spectacle, Part 2: In Search of the Picturesque

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The Fair as a Spectacle, Part 2: In Search of the Picturesque

By Scott|2023-07-02T13:10:12-05:00July 1st, 2023|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Charles Mulford Robinson, Christopher Columbus (statue by Lawrence), Columbian Guard, Court of Honor, Golden Door, gondolas, Ho-o-den, Japanese Tea House, MacMonnies Fountain, Palace of Fine Arts, rolling chairs, Transportation Building, Woman's Building, Wooded Island|

Continued from Part 1 [Note: This text includes names and descriptions now considered culturally disparaging. Please see our statement on “Potentially Offensive Text and Images.”] THE FAIR AS A SPECTACLE. How it seemed to a visitor—Strolling and dreaming by day and by night. By Charles Mulford Robinson Part 2: In Search of the Picturesque But in that brief view a lesson was also taught you which you took to heart at once. It was that the charm of the [...]

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