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125. Picturesque World’s Fair – Arab and Bedouin Horsemen
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125. Picturesque World’s Fair – Arab and Bedouin Horsemen

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125. Picturesque World’s Fair – Arab and Bedouin Horsemen

By Randy|2021-09-06T03:35:59-05:00September 6th, 2021|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Bedouin Camp-Wild East Show, Ottoman's Arab Camp, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR, Wild-East Show|

ARAB AND BEDOUIN HORSEMEN.—Just what the distinction was between Arabs and Bedouins, visitors to the Wild East Show were puzzled to determine. Those of them who had ever paid attention to the terms counted "Arab " as a general description, including all the desert dwellers, and " Bedouin " as something more definite, applying to a single tribe or nation. They left the Wild East Show with just as much and no more information on the subject than they [...]

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111. Picturesque World’s Fair – A group of Arabs, Turks and Bedouins
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111. Picturesque World’s Fair – A group of Arabs, Turks and Bedouins

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111. Picturesque World’s Fair – A group of Arabs, Turks and Bedouins

By Randy|2021-01-27T06:59:36-06:00January 27th, 2021|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Bedouin, Bedouin Camp-Wild East Show, Ottoman's Arab Camp, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR, Turkish Village|

A GROUP OF ARABS, TURKS AND BEDOUINS.—If there be a region in the world where caste and race distinctions are forgotten where the religion is the same, it would appear to be in northern Africa, for the people at the Fair from that continent seemed utterly devoid of prejudice as regarded each other. The group here represented should have the addition of some swarthy Nubian chief, to convey a full idea of the good fellowship which prevailed, but, as [...]

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100. Picturesque World’s Fair – Arabian Horses and Riders
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100. Picturesque World’s Fair – Arabian Horses and Riders

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100. Picturesque World’s Fair – Arabian Horses and Riders

By Randy|2020-10-27T10:19:36-05:00May 6th, 2020|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Bedouin, Bedouin Camp-Wild East Show, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR|

ARABIAN HORSES AND RIDERS.—Ottoman's Arab camp, or the "Wild East Show' as it was finally called, was one of the World's Fair enterprises which, with various striking features, was yet financially unsuccessful. The Bedouins, with their families and equipments, were brought to Chicago by a private company, and the original intention of the promoters of the enterprise was to exhibit them in a park near the Exposition, but this design was, for some reason, impossible of execution, and the [...]

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THE LADY OF THE LAKE by Julian Hawthorne Part IV: The Incomparable Loveliness of the Illuminations
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THE LADY OF THE LAKE by Julian Hawthorne Part IV: The Incomparable Loveliness of the Illuminations

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THE LADY OF THE LAKE by Julian Hawthorne Part IV: The Incomparable Loveliness of the Illuminations

By Scott|2022-12-10T10:05:26-06:00February 7th, 2019|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Administration Building, Agricultural Building, Diana, Electricity Building, illumination, Julian Hawthorne, lagoon, search lights|

Author Julian Hawthorne visited the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Like so many other visitors who recorded their impressions of visiting the World’s Fair, he offered some of his highest praise for the electrical lighting of the night scene in the Dream City, a “banquet of royal beauty.” Reprinted below is the fourth and final part of Julian Hawthorne’s “The Lady of the Lake” about his June visit to the fairgrounds and published in the August 1893 issue [...]

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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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In All Its Splendor and Magnificence: The World’s Fair at Night
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In All Its Splendor and Magnificence: The World’s Fair at Night

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In All Its Splendor and Magnificence: The World’s Fair at Night

By Scott|2024-03-31T16:42:21-05:00April 5th, 2024|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Court of Honor, illumination, search lights|

The illumination of the White City evoked awe and wonder among visitors to the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. “Nothing earthly can ever exceed this; man has reached high, higher, his fingers have almost touched the bars of heaven,” wrote Mrs. D. C. Taylor in her memoir Halcyon Days in the Dream City. [Read the full work here.] Reprinted below is a description of the fairgrounds at night published in the World’s Columbian Exposition Illustrated. The World’s Fair at Night [...]

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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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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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Season’s Readings: 2023 Books about the World’s Columbian Exposition
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Season’s Readings: 2023 Books about the World’s Columbian Exposition

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Season’s Readings: 2023 Books about the World’s Columbian Exposition

By Scott|2023-12-06T14:37:41-06:00December 6th, 2023|Categories: FICTION, NEWS, PRODUCTS, RESEARCH|Tags: Algerian and Tunisian Village, Andrew Carnegie, Bedouin Camp-Wild East Show, George Ferris, Heinz, Josephine Cochrane, L. Frank Baum, Nikola Tesla, Progress (whaling bark), Swami Vivekananda, World's Congress of Religions|

This has been a year of rich and valuable additions to the Columbian Exposition bookshelf. Summarized below are important new nonfiction works that explore connections between the Chicago fair and Western Pennsylvania, Lebanon, England, and Massachusetts. Two others look at the religious and spiritual legacy of the Columbian Exposition. New fictional works explore the fairgrounds though the eyes of visitors in both realistic stories and magical adventures. We also include a few late additions that we missed last season. [...]

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This Side Up: The Man Who Mailed Himself to the Midway in a Box
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This Side Up: The Man Who Mailed Himself to the Midway in a Box

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This Side Up: The Man Who Mailed Himself to the Midway in a Box

By Scott|2023-10-05T07:24:01-05:00October 3rd, 2023|Categories: HISTORY|Tags: Adams Express Company, Austrian Village (Old Vienna), Hagenbeck's Animal Arena|

Despite having nearly 120,000 people enter the fairgrounds on Friday, July 28, this was the slowest day of the week at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. The day before had been a busy one, with Commercial Travelers and German Turners pouring into the Chicago fair for their "special days." Among the few events on Friday was the opening of an interesting package in the Woman’s Building. The box contained a gift from Empress Elisabeth of Austria to the Board [...]

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