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169. Picturesque World’s Fair – The Beauty Show
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169. Picturesque World’s Fair – The Beauty Show

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169. Picturesque World’s Fair – The Beauty Show

By Randy|2024-11-15T10:45:00-06:00November 9th, 2024|Categories: REPRINTS, Uncategorized|Tags: PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR, World's Congress of Beauties|

THE BEAUTY SHOW—What bore upon its front the legend, "International Dress and Costume Exhibit, or World's Congress of Beauties," was a large rectangular structure seen upon the right soon after entering the Midway Plaisance from the Exposition grounds. Further information regarding the attractions within was conveyed in an additional notice to the effect that "Forty Ladies from Forty Nations" were there on exhibition. The interior consisted chiefly of a great hall, surrounded on three sides by a raised and [...]

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Site of the World’s Columbian Exposition
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Site of the World’s Columbian Exposition

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Site of the World’s Columbian Exposition

By Scott|2021-05-16T11:25:52-05:00February 18th, 2018|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: bird’s eye view, Book of the Builders, Harriet Monroe, Jackson Park, Lake Front Park, Midway Plaisance, The World’s Columbian Exposition Illustrated, Washington Park, World’s Congress Auxiliary Building|

The piece below, from the first issue of The World’s Columbian Exposition Illustrated (Vol. 1 No. 1, February 1891) and likely written by editor James B. Campbell, offers an enthusiastic description of the locations that Chicago had recently selected to host the 1893 World’s Fair. The editorial boosterism belies much of the bitter fighting that went into reaching the decision to use Jackson Park as the main fairgrounds. At the time of this publication in early 1891, plans to [...]

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A City of Realized Dreams
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A City of Realized Dreams

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A City of Realized Dreams

By Scott|2024-08-14T15:43:05-05:00August 15th, 2024|Categories: REPRINTS|

The 1893 World's Columbian Exposition showcased harmony of architectural design and sculpture, advanced technologies to serve humanity, and education to guide moral progress. These themes are featured in the essay reprinted here, from the July 1893 issue of Catholic World. This depiction of the “East Lagoon by Moonlight” typified the dreamy quality of “the great white ephemeral city.” [Image from Picturesque World’s Fair. W.B. Conkey, 1894; digitally edited.] A CITY OF REALIZED DREAMS Wandering through the spacious [...]

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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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Singles Night at the 1893 World’s Fair
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Singles Night at the 1893 World’s Fair

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Singles Night at the 1893 World’s Fair

By Scott|2022-10-12T12:11:30-05:00October 30th, 2022|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Palace of Fine Arts, W.W. Denslow|

In the era before dating apps, how were singles to meet? One Chicagoan in 1893 proposed a special day on the fairgrounds of the World’s Columbian Exposition for not-so-young-and-still-unattached visitors. The October 21, 1893, issue of the Chicago Inter Ocean carried the following Letter to the Editor, signed “A. LS.” (presumably one of the “autumn lassies” mentioned in the letter?). Although the Fair held many “special days”—for groups ranging from North Dakotans to Nicaraguans, French Engineers to Fishermen—the author’s [...]

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“The eighth wonder of the world” Gilded Age author Charles Dudley Warner extols the 1893 World’s Fair
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“The eighth wonder of the world” Gilded Age author Charles Dudley Warner extols the 1893 World’s Fair

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“The eighth wonder of the world” Gilded Age author Charles Dudley Warner extols the 1893 World’s Fair

By Scott|2022-01-24T06:08:30-06:00January 24th, 2022|Categories: HISTORY|Tags: Charles Dudley Warner, Daniel Burnham, Mark Twain|

“The bigger Chicago is, the more important this world becomes.” —Charles Dudley Warner American essayist and novelist Charles Dudley Warner (1829–1900) is perhaps best remembered as the co-author with Mark Twain of The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today. Their 1873 novel satirizes the greed and political corruption endemic in the United States after the Civil War. The “Gilded Age” moniker eventually came to describe the era of excess and deception in late-nineteenth-century America. The pinnacle of Gilded Age [...]

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“Halcyon Days in the Dream City’’ Part 15: The Palace of Art
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“Halcyon Days in the Dream City’’ Part 15: The Palace of Art

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“Halcyon Days in the Dream City’’ Part 15: The Palace of Art

By Scott|2021-04-02T11:19:43-05:00November 27th, 2020|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Palace of Fine Arts|

Halcyon Days in the Dream City by Mrs. D. C. Taylor Continued from Part 14 What is "Art?" Perhaps we are not qualified to say, but to us, “It” is “Truth.” Not merely truth of detail in drawing; though that is necessary to a finished picture, not merely truth of coloring; though that also, must be had, but truth in its highest sense. When a man stands near to the great heart of all, when he sees the meaning [...]

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Echoes of the White City Part 4: “Heard No More”
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Echoes of the White City Part 4: “Heard No More”

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Echoes of the White City Part 4: “Heard No More”

By Scott|2022-10-03T09:09:02-05:00November 27th, 2019|Categories: HISTORY|Tags: Board of Lady Managers, camels, Chicago Hussars, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Eugene Field, Harlow Higinbotham, Isabella quarter, Michigan Military Academy Cadets, Midway Plaisance, Thomas W. Palmer, Virginia Meredith|

In 1894, Chicago socialites rebuilt a miniature version of the great Midway Plaisance from the 1893 World’s Fair inside of two downtown armories. “Echoes of the White City—The Midway” culminated in a “Grand Finale” on November 27.

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Echoes of the White City Part 3: “Fourteen Villages and a Jail”
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Echoes of the White City Part 3: “Fourteen Villages and a Jail”

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Echoes of the White City Part 3: “Fourteen Villages and a Jail”

By Scott|2022-12-10T10:10:12-06:00November 20th, 2019|Categories: HISTORY|Tags: Bessie Potter Vonnoh, Candace Wheeler, Carl Rohl-Smith, Columbian Guard, Columbian Liberty Bell, Congress of Beauty, Daniel Chester French, East Indian Bazaar, Electric Scenic Theater, Ellen Henrotin, Ferris Wheel, George Francis Train, Hobart Chatfield-Taylor, Irish Village (Blarney Castle), Irish Village (Donegal Castle), Japanese Bazaar, Java Village, Justice (statue), kinetoscope, Lapland Village, Lorado Taft, MacMonnies Fountain, Midway Plaisance, Miss Mary Lawrence, Robert Lindblom, Statue of the Republic|

Entering Battery D Armory, visitors to “Echoes of the White City” faced a replica in miniature of one of the greatest attractions of the 1893 World’s Fair

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The Dying Scene of this Magnificent Exposition: Mayor Carter Harrison’s Final Speech
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The Dying Scene of this Magnificent Exposition: Mayor Carter Harrison’s Final Speech

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The Dying Scene of this Magnificent Exposition: Mayor Carter Harrison’s Final Speech

By Scott|2022-12-10T10:10:40-06:00October 28th, 2018|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: American Cities Day, Carter Harrison, Columbian Liberty Bell, Daniel Burnham, Devil in the White City (book), Eugene Patrick Prendergast, Grover Cleveland, John Root, Manhattan Day, Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, Music Hall, New York, New York State Building, Tiffany|

World’s Columbian Exposition celebrated “American Cities Day” on Saturday, October 28, 1893, two days before the close of the Fair. Chicago’s Mayor, Carter Harrison, hosted what was thought to be the largest congregation of U.S. mayors ever assembled. Greeting the guests as they arrived on the fairgrounds on the bitterly cold day was the blast of a cannon and musical fanfares from a group of sixteen trumpeters stationed around Music Hall. Mayors represented the great cities of Philadelphia, Milwaukee, [...]

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