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154. Picturesque World’s Fair – East front of Machinery Hall and the Obelisk
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154. Picturesque World’s Fair – East front of Machinery Hall and the Obelisk

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154. Picturesque World’s Fair – East front of Machinery Hall and the Obelisk

By Randy|2023-10-10T17:09:30-05:00July 27th, 2023|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Agricultural Building, Alexander Phimister Proctor, Farmer's Bridge, Grand Basin, Machinery Hall, Obelisk, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR|

EAST FRONT OF MACHINERY HALL, AND THE OBELISK.—The area of water extending to the south from the Grand Basin and known as the South Canal was so entirely surrounded by the beautiful in art or architecture that a view across it from any point was sure to be something captivating. The view above is from the northeast corner of the canal, just where the " Farmer's Bridge " terminated on the area in front of the Agriculture Building, with [...]

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127. Picturesque World’s Fair – Eastern Portal of Machinery Hall
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127. Picturesque World’s Fair – Eastern Portal of Machinery Hall

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127. Picturesque World’s Fair – Eastern Portal of Machinery Hall

By Randy|2021-10-16T05:24:37-05:00October 16th, 2021|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Agricultural Building, gondolas, Machinery Hall, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR, South Canal|

EASTERN PORTAL OF MACHINERY HALL.—The view here given is an admirable one of the eastern entrance to Machinery Hall and makes plain the remarkable architectural style of that great edifice. The entrance has been described at length, but only such a view as this, the reproduction of a photograph taken from the Agriculture Building at a point directly across the canal, could bring out the charming details. The portico of this entrance was a popular resort because here was [...]

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123. Picturesque World’s Fair – The Boiler-Room of Machinery Hall
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123. Picturesque World’s Fair – The Boiler-Room of Machinery Hall

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123. Picturesque World’s Fair – The Boiler-Room of Machinery Hall

By Randy|2021-07-27T06:51:41-05:00July 27th, 2021|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: boiler-room, Machinery Hall, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR|

THE BOILER-ROOM OF MACHINERY HALL.—Never before was such a boiler-room as that which delighted engineers in Machinery Hall. It must needs be enormous, for it supplied the force for all the lights and machinery of the great buildings, but those who had never seen it were none the less astonished when they entered the great room. It extended north and south in the annex, and to look down it was like looking down a street the end of which [...]

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PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR – Interior of Machinery Hall (p. 88)
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PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR – Interior of Machinery Hall (p. 88)

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PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR – Interior of Machinery Hall (p. 88)

By Randy|2019-10-20T06:55:21-05:00October 20th, 2019|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Germany, Machinery Hall, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR|

PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR. AN ELABORATE COLLECTION OF COLORED VIEWS Page 88 – INTERIOR OF MACHINERY HALL INTERIOR OF MACHINERY HALL.—Quite different from the view afforded inside any other of the buildings of the Fair was that where the acres of all kinds of modern machinery were exposed in competition. So constructed that the most effective display of such exhibits could be made, the vast hall presented a scene never equaled of its kind before. A common simile in describing [...]

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PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR – Machinery Hall (p. 68)
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PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR – Machinery Hall (p. 68)

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PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR – Machinery Hall (p. 68)

By Randy|2018-11-03T06:11:19-05:00November 3rd, 2018|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Grand Basin, Machinery Hall, Palace of Mechanic Art, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR|

PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR. AN ELABORATE COLLECTION OF COLORED VIEWS Page 68 – MACHINERY HALL MACHINERY HALL.—One of the most elaborate structures of the Columbian Exposition, Machinery Hall, or the Palace of Mechanic Art as it was termed officially, fully justified by its general effect the attention paid to ornamental details. The genius who achieved the lesser thing so well did not fail in the greater. Located at the south of the Grand Plaza and fronting to the east on [...]

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Remembering Robert Swain Peabody, architect of Machinery Hall
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Remembering Robert Swain Peabody, architect of Machinery Hall

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Remembering Robert Swain Peabody, architect of Machinery Hall

By Scott|2018-09-21T09:44:17-05:00September 23rd, 2018|Categories: HISTORY|Tags: Daniel Burnham, Machinery Hall, Massachusetts State Building, Robert S. Peabody|

Robert Swain Peabody (February 22, 1845-September 23, 1917) died on this day at his summer home in Marblehead, Massachusetts. Cofounder of the renowned Boston architectural firm of Peabody & Stearns, he was one of the select east-coast architects invited by Daniel Burnham to contribute to the design of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Despite his pessimistic statement in 1891 about the prospect of constructing the World’s Fair on the rough grounds of Jackson Park (“It can’t be done”), [...]

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The Chicago Fair of 1893 Will Remain Unexcelled
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The Chicago Fair of 1893 Will Remain Unexcelled

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The Chicago Fair of 1893 Will Remain Unexcelled

By Scott|2024-08-23T14:22:10-05:00August 24th, 2024|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: "Belly Dancer", Administration Building, Battleship Illinois, bum-bum, Caravels, Cliff Dwellers, Court of Honor, DeWitt Clinton (train), electric fountains, electricity, Empire State Express, Ferris Wheel, glass dress, illumination, Kansas State Building, Little Egypt, Princess Eulalia|

In the aftermath of World War II—facing staggering military casualties, the atrocities of the Holocaust, and the specter of nuclear weapons—some people sought solace in fond memories of better times. The following reminiscence of visiting the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago as a young boy appeared in the July 6, 1946, issue of the Windsor Star (Windsor, Ontario). The author had grown up in the small town of Morenci, Michigan. The "electric bulbs which outlined the dome [...]

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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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“Ring the Bells!” by Richard Lew Dawson
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“Ring the Bells!” by Richard Lew Dawson

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“Ring the Bells!” by Richard Lew Dawson

By Scott|2024-07-03T08:29:08-05:00July 4th, 2024|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: July 4|

Essayist, story writer, song writer, critic and poet, Richard Lew Dawson (1852–1921) wrote for many popular newspapers and magazines, including the Indianapolis Sentinel, Indianapolis Journal, Chicago Current, Saturday Herald, and Century Magazine. He was a founding member of the Western Association of Writers in 1886. A few years before his death on April 23, 1921, the Hoosier writer moved to San Francisco, where he departed this world on the anniversary of Shakespeare’s birthday. Dawson’s poem “Ring the Bells!,” celebrating [...]

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164. Picturesque World’s Fair – The North Canal – Looking South
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164. Picturesque World’s Fair – The North Canal – Looking South

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164. Picturesque World’s Fair – The North Canal – Looking South

By Randy|2024-05-12T09:49:55-05:00May 12th, 2024|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Administration Building, Agricultural Building, colonnade, Electricity Building, Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, Obelisk, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR, Rostral Columns, South Canal|

THE NORTH CANAL—LOOKING SOUTH —From a point near the west approach to the bridge connecting the Electricity and Manufactures Buildings a view was afforded southward down the South Canal, which had many interesting features. The always thronged bridge between the plaza in front of the Administration Building and the south front of the Manufactures cuts off, it is true, a portion of the view but adds in itself an interesting feature. The photograph from which the illustrations were made [...]

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