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Some New 1893 World’s Fair Products

If you are shopping for a gift to give a Columbian Exposition enthusiast or just want to treat yourself to a little something during the holiday season, check on these products relating to the 1893 World’s Fair. Note: We provide this announcement of new products without any compensation from vendors. Prices and availability subject to change. Ted’s vintage art offers a super-high quality, digitally restored print of a “Vintage Map of Chicago, Illinois 1893” depicting a birds-eye view of the [...]

By |2023-11-04T19:14:04-05:00December 17th, 2020|Categories: PRODUCTS|0 Comments
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Daniel Burnham Inducted into Lincoln Academy Hall of Fame

Daniel Burnham, Director of Works for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, is one of five Illinois figures inducted into the Lincoln Academy of Illinois Hall of Fame of Historic Illinoisans. The Academy’s citation for Burnham reads: Daniel Burnham (1846 – 1912) is famously quoted as saying, “Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably will not themselves be realized.” He was an environmentalist, architect and urban designer. Much of his work was based on [...]

By |2021-04-02T11:17:56-05:00December 8th, 2020|Categories: NEWS|Tags: |0 Comments
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Dec. 19, 2020: Chicago History Book Club discusses the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition (online)

DATE CHANGE The Chicago History Book Club will discuss three books about the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition during their online meeting at 10 am on Saturday, December 19: Robert Muccigrosso's Celebrating the New World: Chicago’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 (Ivan R. Dee, 1993), Erik Larson's best-selling The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America (Crown, 2003), and Jeanne Madeline Weimann's The Fair Women: The Story of the Woman’s Building at the [...]

By |2023-01-12T20:31:20-06:00December 5th, 2020|Categories: EVENTS (past)|Tags: |0 Comments
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“Halcyon Days in the Dream City’’ Part 17: “Vale”

Halcyon Days in the Dream City by Mrs. D. C. Taylor Continued from Part 16 The sun has set for the last time on the World's Fair of ’93; for the last time his dying smile has lighted up the fairy courts, the gleaming splendor of statue and portal. Slowly as he sinks to rest, so slowly, solemnly, sinks the forest of fluttering flags and banners; each tall staff soon reaches up in the gathering night bare and stark. [...]

By |2021-04-02T11:18:16-05:00November 30th, 2020|Categories: REPRINTS|0 Comments
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“Halcyon Days in the Dream City’’ Part 16: The Transportation Building

Halcyon Days in the Dream City by Mrs. D. C. Taylor Continued from Part 15 Let us go through the “Golden Gate,” not the gate of the Holy City, but a gate the architect of which must have been dreaming of wondrous Bible imagery, when he designed it.[1] Arch beyond arch, receding, diminishing as they recede, till the last one is about the dimensions of some grand cathedral door, while the noble proportions of the first, are almost awe [...]

By |2021-04-02T11:18:24-05:00November 29th, 2020|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: , , |2 Comments
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Commonplace Fun Facts Relives the Wonder of the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair

We appreciate the invitation to “Relive the Wonder of the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair” from Commonplace Fun Facts. The website’s fascinating “collection of trivia, fun facts, humor, and interesting notions” includes a few other posts that feature some Columbian connections, including one about popcorn history and another about Chicago’s “Windy City” moniker. Check it out.

By |2021-04-02T11:18:30-05:00November 28th, 2020|Categories: NEWS|0 Comments
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“Halcyon Days in the Dream City’’ Part 15: The Palace of Art

Halcyon Days in the Dream City by Mrs. D. C. Taylor Continued from Part 14 What is "Art?" Perhaps we are not qualified to say, but to us, “It” is “Truth.” Not merely truth of detail in drawing; though that is necessary to a finished picture, not merely truth of coloring; though that also, must be had, but truth in its highest sense. When a man stands near to the great heart of all, when he sees the meaning [...]

By |2021-04-02T11:19:43-05:00November 27th, 2020|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: |2 Comments
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Ontario’s Mammoth Squash at the 1893 World’s Fair

So many things were big, big, BIG at the 1893 World’s Fair that it may have been easy to miss the world’s biggest squash. On display in the Horticultural Building in late September was a quarter-ton “monster squash” from Canada. Gourdzilla received some proud coverage back home in the September 29, 1893, issue of the Windsor Star, which reported on the sensational vegetable: “Ontario is again the sensation provider for the fair. No longer is the “Canadian Mite,” as [...]

By |2021-04-02T11:21:04-05:00November 26th, 2020|Categories: HISTORY|Tags: |1 Comment
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“Halcyon Days in the Dream City’’ Part 14: A Dream

Halcyon Days in the Dream City by Mrs. D. C. Taylor Continued from Part 13 We dreamed that we sat upon the sands of the lake shore, and that all about us, unnumbered as these sands, sat and stood a great multitude; thousands upon thousands of people, men, women, and children, from the babe in arms to the maiden and stripling, high and low, rich and poor, all crowding together, all were equal, and over all a great hush [...]

By |2021-04-02T11:21:11-05:00November 25th, 2020|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: , |1 Comment
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