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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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97. Picturesque World’s Fair – Fettome, A Bedouin Woman
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97. Picturesque World’s Fair – Fettome, A Bedouin Woman

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97. Picturesque World’s Fair – Fettome, A Bedouin Woman

By Randy|2020-10-27T10:21:26-05:00March 28th, 2020|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Bedouin, Bedouin Camp-Wild East Show, Midway Plaisance, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR|

FETTOME, A BEDOUIN WOMAN.—Much as has been written about the Arabs and their wild life upon the North African plains, descriptions have been, as a rule, confined mostly to the men and how the woman of the desert lives, moves and has her being has been left largely to the imagination. So it came that the Bedouin women, at the Columbian Exposition, were looked upon with a good deal of curiosity and were found to be by no means [...]

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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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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 Midway Plaisance

By Scott|2022-10-02T10:13:34-05:00October 1st, 2022|

The Midway Plaisance The Midway Plaisance is a six hundred-foot wide by one mile-long strip of land that connects Jackson Park on the east to Washington Park on the west, running for seven blocks between 59th Street on the north and 60th Street on the South. From an initial plan for a “Bazaar of Nations” exhibit, the district evolved into a mix of educational displays enshrouded in a sugarcoating of amusement. The Midway consisted of a most unusual collection [...]

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People

By Scott|2024-03-08T09:12:46-06:00April 7th, 2022|

Notable People at the 1893 World’s Fair Among the millions of people attending the Columbian Exposition were countless famous or soon-to-be famous names. The list below is an attempt at counting. What constitutes famous? Having a Wikipedia page today is the reasonable requirement used to assemble most entries in this list. Posts for some people are provided as links in their name. A person’s role in the Exposition is identied in brackets: [A] = artists (architects, painters, sculptors, musicians) [...]

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When Ward McAllister Sauced Chicago, Part 3
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When Ward McAllister Sauced Chicago, Part 3

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When Ward McAllister Sauced Chicago, Part 3

By Scott|2022-03-04T07:14:16-06:00February 25th, 2022|Categories: HISTORY|Tags: Carter Harrison, Ellen Henrotin, Hobart Chatfield-Taylor, New York, Puck Building, Ward McAllister|

Second Course: Chicago Bites Back Continued from Part 2. “The World’s Fair cannot help but open the eyes of our Western Natives to our superiority.” —Ward McAllister Would Chicago frappé its wine too much? Certainly not with the rising temperatures caused by Ward McAllister’s sanctimonious sermon on proper entertaining during the 1893 World’s Fair. Chicago newspapers launched a vigorous counterattack in the days following the publication of McAllister’s interview in the New York World on April 9, 1893. [...]

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“Halcyon Days in the Dream City’’ Part 8: Sights and Sounds of the Midway
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“Halcyon Days in the Dream City’’ Part 8: Sights and Sounds of the Midway

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“Halcyon Days in the Dream City’’ Part 8: Sights and Sounds of the Midway

By Scott|2022-03-05T11:13:22-06:00November 13th, 2020|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Midway Plaisance|

Halcyon Days in the Dream City by Mrs. D. C. Taylor Continued from Part 7 Will ever human foot tread such a "way" again? 'Twas as if one had "Aladdin's Lamp" or the wonderful carpet that transported one to any clime with the celerity of thought. One bears the booming of the Dahomian skin drums, and sees the terrible naked Amazons in their hideous dance; sees the Laplander wrapped in his furs and leading his reindeers; sees the Esquimeaux, [...]

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“Halcyon Days in the Dream City’’ Part 2: The Plaisance
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“Halcyon Days in the Dream City’’ Part 2: The Plaisance

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“Halcyon Days in the Dream City’’ Part 2: The Plaisance

By Scott|2022-12-10T10:09:54-06:00November 2nd, 2020|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Midway Plaisance|

Halcyon Days in the Dream City by Mrs. D. C. Taylor Continued from Part 1 A May morning, cool but not cold, with a brisk wind, blowing, cloud shadows and sun bursts chasing one another across the deep blue sky. To-day we make our way straight from the 60th street entrance to the Midway Plaisance. When we have passed through that tunnel like passage under the intramural railway, we have left America behind us. We are in foreign countries [...]

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