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In-cider Information on a Columbian Exposition Beverage

The Columbian Exposition adult beverage shelf has a new addition. Reach past those cans of “Fist City” and “All the World is Here” beer, Field Gin, and the long line of products from Few Spirits and grab a can of Virtue Cider’s new Southcider. Crafted in their cider houses in Fennville, Michigan, using local apples and blended with botanicals, Southcider--along with its companion beverage Northcider--honors Chicago’s famous crosstown baseball series. Among several South-side Chicago images decorating the Southcider can [...]

By |2020-08-17T08:21:27-05:00August 17th, 2020|Categories: PRODUCTS|Tags: |0 Comments
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Zoom to the 1893 World’s Fair with the Chicago History Museum

Stuck in endless online conferences? Ready to escape from the confines of your home office? Try adding a background that situates you at the 1893 World's Fair. The Chicago History Museum offers several images from their collection to use as a Zoom background. Among them is a famous photograph by C. D. Arnold of the Administration Building surrounded by crowds on Chicago Day [CHM, ICHi-002201] You can download the image at https://www.chicagohistory.org/zoom/ and start "Zooming through history." [...]

By |2020-07-18T10:37:57-05:00July 19th, 2020|Categories: NEWS|Tags: , |0 Comments
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1893 Chicago Midway Playing Cards & History of the World’s Fair Card Deck

1893 Chicago Midway Playing Cards & History of the World’s Fair Card Deck by Stuart Van Leer Bradley. Railway Station Press, 2020. ISBN: 9781951299057. Softcover, 40 pages. $15.00. This companion book to the recently produced set of Midway Playing Cards contains a summary of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the Midway Plaisance, technical notes about the set of Barnhart Brothers & Spindler (BB&S) type foundry printers ornaments, scans of a set of letterpress history cards, and an [...]

By |2020-07-18T10:22:26-05:00July 18th, 2020|Categories: PRODUCTS, RESEARCH|Tags: |0 Comments
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Aug. 11, 2020: “Britannia Visits the White City”: the Peter family and the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 (Washington D.C.)

What was it like to attend the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago? A first-hand account from Martha Washington’s great-grandchild is the basis of “Britannia Visits the White City,” a lecture sponsored by the DAR Museum in Washington on August 11, 2020. Washington descendant Britannia W. Kennon, a seventy-eight-year-old owner of the Georgetown estate of Tudor Place, spent a week with her family at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893. Her surviving letters and postcards in the archives of [...]

By |2020-08-17T08:35:15-05:00July 13th, 2020|Categories: EVENTS (past)|Tags: , |0 Comments
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The Voyage of “The Viking” Ship to the 1893 World’s Fair

“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 [...]

By |2023-12-08T08:48:25-06:00July 12th, 2020|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: , |1 Comment
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1776, 1861, and 1893

At a banquet held in Chicago on January 10, 1891, Chief of Construction Daniel Burnham made this patriotic appeal to the architects of the World’s Columbian Exposition: “Gentlemen, 1893 will be the third great date in our country’s history. On the two others, 1776 and 1861, all true Americans served, and so now I ask you to serve again!" [from Martin, Justin Genius of Place: The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted. Hachette Books, 2011.] On August 14, 1891, Prof. David [...]

By |2020-07-04T06:24:47-05:00July 4th, 2020|Categories: REPRINTS|0 Comments
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Chicago00 Launches 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition VR Web Portal

Grab your Columbian Exposition return pass and head back to the 1893 World’s Fair virtually with the Chicago 00 Project, which has launched their 1893 World's Columbian Exposition VR web portal at https://1893.chicago00.org/. A partnership between the Chicago History Museum and filmmaker Geoffrey Alan Rhodes, the Chicago 00 Project has been producing a series of interactive multimedia experiences using historical images of important sites and events in Chicago. Their augmented reality app allows participant to overlay historic photos with [...]

By |2020-06-29T10:42:24-05:00June 29th, 2020|Categories: NEWS|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |0 Comments
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Transported to the Land of the Fairies: A Ride on the Ferris Wheel

The great Ferris Wheel on the Midway Plaisance of the World’s Columbian Exposition opened to the public on June 21, 1893. The following account comes from Mrs. Julia Waugh, whose letter describing her ride on the Ferris Wheel was published in the July 7, 1893, issue of the Crawfordsville (IN) Weekly Journal. She notes that her “memorable trip” was taken the second day after the opening of the attraction, when 1,000 tickets were purchased in the first two hours. [...]

By |2020-06-13T14:39:34-05:00June 21st, 2020|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: |2 Comments
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Speaking of Whales

The excerpt below, from The Century World’s Fair Book for Boys and Girls by Tutor Jenks (Century Co., 1893), describes the whaling bark Progress exhibited at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The authentic whaling ship from New Bedford, Massachusetts, was moored in the South Pond and served as a floating museum of the fading whaling industry. A view of the Anthropology and Ethnology exhibits along the South Pond of the 1893 World's Fair, showing the whaling [...]

By |2021-02-13T08:33:01-06:00June 15th, 2020|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: |0 Comments
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