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Velasco’s Valleys and Volcanos: Paintings of Mexico at the 1893 World’s Fair
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Velasco’s Valleys and Volcanos: Paintings of Mexico at the 1893 World’s Fair

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Velasco’s Valleys and Volcanos: Paintings of Mexico at the 1893 World’s Fair

By Scott|2022-03-05T10:28:58-06:00July 14th, 2018|Categories: HISTORY|Tags: José Maria Jara, José María Velasco, Mexico, National Museum of Mexican Art, Palace of Fine Arts, tamales|

An exhibit at the National Museum of Mexican Art this summer features the early artistic involvement and influence of Mexican immigrants in Chicago, beginning with the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893. Arte Diseño Xicágo: Mexican Inspiration from the World's Columbian Exposition to the Civil Rights Era runs through August 19, 2018, in the Main Gallery. Arte Diseño Xicágo Mexican Inspiration from the World's Columbian Exposition to the Civil Rights Era at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago. [...]

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Apr. 12-Aug. 11, 2024: Arte Diseño Xicágo II-From the World’s Fair To The Present Day (Chicago)
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Apr. 12-Aug. 11, 2024: Arte Diseño Xicágo II-From the World’s Fair To The Present Day (Chicago)

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Apr. 12-Aug. 11, 2024: Arte Diseño Xicágo II-From the World’s Fair To The Present Day (Chicago)

By Scott|2024-03-22T09:37:24-05:00March 22nd, 2024|Categories: EVENTS, EXHIBITS (current)|Tags: Mexico|

The National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago is hosting an exhibit that explores art from the time of the 1893 World’s Fair. Arte Diseño Xicágo II (Art Design Chicago II) runs from April 12 through August 11, 2024. This exhibition examines the 1893 World’s Fair as a platform for expressions of cultural identity and reveals how many Chicago and Mexican artists had similar objectives. The exhibition features 19th-century works of art from both Chicago and Mexico by some [...]

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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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150. Picturesque World’s Fair – Interior of the Mining Building
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150. Picturesque World’s Fair – Interior of the Mining Building

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150. Picturesque World’s Fair – Interior of the Mining Building

By Randy|2023-04-02T03:28:28-05:00April 2nd, 2023|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: California State Building, Germany, Mines and Mining Building, Montana State Building, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR|

INTERIOR OF THE MINING BUILDING.—There was much in the Mines and Mining Building the value of which was not apparent save to the expert, bit there was a great deal there also which was glitteringly attractive, and a great deal that was curious even to the casual visitor. The display of gold and silver made from some of the states was striking, as were the exhibits of precious stones from different countries, and the great monuments of coal were [...]

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State Buildings

By Scott|2022-10-02T10:14:17-05:00April 13th, 2022|

The State Buildings The state buildings stood in a sweeping crescent across the northern end of the Columbian Exposition fairgrounds. Thirty-six states and one group of territories each sponsored a state building at the 1893 World's Fair. (The only states in 1893 that did not erect a building were Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Nevada, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Wyoming.) These architecturally diverse structures often were built of materials native to that state, and several were replicas of [...]

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Ballyhoo on the Midway Plaisance
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Ballyhoo on the Midway Plaisance

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Ballyhoo on the Midway Plaisance

By Scott|2023-12-20T14:25:32-06:00May 18th, 2021|Categories: HISTORY|Tags: fakirs, Midway Plaisance, Ostrich Farm, Turkish Village|

“All new words are created because a new sound is needed to voice an idea, usually also new.” —Charles Wolverton The word ballyhoo, according to the renowned and authoritative Oxford English Dictionary (OED), means a “a showman’s touting speech, or a performance advertising a show.” It can be used as a mass noun to mean “bombastic nonsense; extravagant or brash publicity; noisy fuss.” Though this “carnival” usage has uncertain origins, the OED and other etymology sources cite the first [...]

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Progress of the Century: The Celebrated Agave Plant of the 1893 World’s Fair
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Progress of the Century: The Celebrated Agave Plant of the 1893 World’s Fair

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Progress of the Century: The Celebrated Agave Plant of the 1893 World’s Fair

By Scott|2023-03-11T16:15:10-06:00May 7th, 2021|Categories: HISTORY|Tags: Horticultural Building, John Thorpe, pulque, William Le Baron Jenney|

Uncle John rose with the morning sun on April 23, 1893 and made a bee-line for the Horticultural Building on the fairgrounds of the World’s Columbian Exposition in Jackson Park, Chicago. The opening of the Fair—when President Cleveland would push the button to unfurl the flags along the White City rooftops and release the water to the glorious fountains—was still nine days away. Today, however, the Chief of the Horticultural Department was expecting a throng of visitors to his [...]

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