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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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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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Sculptures

By Scott|2022-10-02T10:15:24-05:00June 28th, 2022|

Sculptures In addition to the more than 800 sculptural works exhibited in galleries of the Palace of Fine Arts and those that ornamented the great exhibit halls, sculptures also filled the grounds of the White City. Nearly all of the outdoor sculptures were made of staff; only a few were cast in bronze after the Fair. The team of artists who decorated the Columbian Exposition fairgrounds either came from the ranks of America's leading sculptors or would soon ascended [...]

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136. Picturesque World’s Fair – Birds-Eye View of the Columbian Fountain
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136. Picturesque World’s Fair – Birds-Eye View of the Columbian Fountain

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136. Picturesque World’s Fair – Birds-Eye View of the Columbian Fountain

By Randy|2022-07-10T10:19:29-05:00March 15th, 2022|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Agricultural Building, Columbian Fountain, Farmer's Bridge, Machinery Hall, MacMonnies Fountain, Obelisk, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR|

BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF THE COLUMBIAN FOUNTAIN.—It was a merit of the famous Columbian Fountain and one indicative of its quality as a great work of art that it was beautiful from whatever direction a view of it might be taken. So perfect were the relations of its parts that even a bird's-eye view gave something symmetrical and picturesque In the illustration, the observer being almost directly north and at a slight elevation, minor details of the barge are not [...]

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From Hades to Heaven: Penelope Gleason Knapp’s Visit to the Court of Honor
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From Hades to Heaven: Penelope Gleason Knapp’s Visit to the Court of Honor

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From Hades to Heaven: Penelope Gleason Knapp’s Visit to the Court of Honor

By Scott|2021-04-02T11:11:32-05:00March 22nd, 2021|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Administration Building, Court of Honor, Diana, electric fountains, gondolas, illumination, MacMonnies Fountain, Obelisk, Statue of the Republic|

A visit to the 1893 World’s Fair inspired Penelope Gleason Knapp to pen a romantic and effusive love letter to the wonders of the White City. With Victorian flourish, she describes her rapturous experience in the Court of Honor, “where enchantment reigns supreme.” Her memoir offers a reminder that electric illumination on such a grand scale was an overwhelming experience for many visitors from small towns in America. Penelope Gleason Knapp In 1893, twenty-two-year-old Penelope Gleason Knapp was living [...]

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The Voyage of “The Viking” Ship to the 1893 World’s Fair
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The Voyage of “The Viking” Ship to the 1893 World’s Fair

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The Voyage of “The Viking” Ship to the 1893 World’s Fair

By Scott|2023-12-08T08:48:25-06:00July 12th, 2020|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, Viking Ship|

“The presence of the Viking ship in one of our ports and her subsequent visit to Newport and New York and the trip up the Hudson, through the Erie Canal down the Great Lakes to Chicago and the ‘White City’ marks a historical event of no small importance.” —The Chautauquan, August 1893. The Viking from Norway at the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago. [Image from Scientific American, Aug. 19, 1893.] Few attractions at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition [...]

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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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PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR – Looking North from the South Colonnade (p. 84)
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PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR – Looking North from the South Colonnade (p. 84)

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PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR – Looking North from the South Colonnade (p. 84)

By Randy|2019-08-05T05:47:53-05:00August 5th, 2019|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Farmer's Bridge, Grand Basin, Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, North Pond, Obelisk, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR, South Colonnade|

PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR. AN ELABORATE COLLECTION OF COLORED VIEWS Page 84 – LOOKING NORTH FROM THE SOUTH COLONNADE LOOKING NORTH FROM THE SOUTH COLONNADE.—In the opinion of many people the most striking extended view to be had upon the Fair grounds was from the Obelisk, at the southern extremity of the South Canal, or better still, from the Colonnade immediately in its rear. From this point opened a vista nearly a mile in length terminated only by the beautiful [...]

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“The couple gasped in horrified surprise.” Nude Art at the 1893 World’s Fair
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“The couple gasped in horrified surprise.” Nude Art at the 1893 World’s Fair

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“The couple gasped in horrified surprise.” Nude Art at the 1893 World’s Fair

By Scott|2024-09-24T09:06:18-05:00May 28th, 2019|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: MacMonnies Fountain, Palace of Fine Arts, Peristyle, Rostral Columns, Theodore Baur|

The 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago exposed visitors to a new world. Many experienced what has been described as the "shock of the new” when facing awesome technological advances and the rich variety of human cultures on exhibition. Others felt a shock just from seeing the human form openly displayed. “No one can help noticing the frankness and more than pagan un-reserve with which contemporary artists are treating the nude, both in painting and in sculpture.” wrote Julian Hawthorne in his [...]

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PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR – The “Farmer’s Bridge.” (p. 52)
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PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR – The “Farmer’s Bridge.” (p. 52)

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PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR – The “Farmer’s Bridge.” (p. 52)

By Randy|2018-06-01T05:51:07-05:00June 1st, 2018|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: buffalo, Farmer's Bridge, Gospel Chariots, moose, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR, Tin Soldiers|

PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR. AN ELABORATE COLLECTION OF COLORED VIEWS Page 52 – THE "FARMER'S BRIDGE" THE "FARMER'S BRIDGE." — Not a few of the prominent features of the Columbian Exposition acquired popular titles quite different from their official designation. The main entrance to the Transportation Building became known as "The Golden Door," the rolling chairs propelled largely by theological students, acquired the title of " Gospel Chariots;" the Columbian Guards were called the "Tin Soldiers," and in other directions [...]

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