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132. Picturesque World’s Fair – The Columbian Obelisk
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132. Picturesque World’s Fair – The Columbian Obelisk

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132. Picturesque World’s Fair – The Columbian Obelisk

THE COLUMBIAN OBELISK.- The Obelisk, which was the prominent object at the southern end of the South Canal, connected the wonderful civilization the World's Fair represented with the hardly less wonderful civilization of thousands of years ago. Ancient Egypt furnished, in a manner, her contribution to the architecture of the Columbian Exposition, the Obelisk, from a distance, reminding the observer of one of the " Cleopatra's Needles," of which, by the way, an exact reproduction was among the attractions [...]

By Randy|2022-01-08T17:22:45-06:00January 8th, 2022|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Agricultural Building, Machinery Hall, Obelisk, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR, South Canal, South Colonnade|0 Comments

131. Picturesque World’s Fair – Interior of the Chinese Joss House
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131. Picturesque World’s Fair – Interior of the Chinese Joss House

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131. Picturesque World’s Fair – Interior of the Chinese Joss House

INTERIOR OF THE CHINESE JOSS HOUSE.—Even conservative and ancient China did not keep away from the World's Fair entirely, though the exhibit made was the result of private enterprise, the Chinese government manifesting no great interest in the friendly reunion of the rest of the world. What was known as the Wah Mee Exposition Company had the energy as well as the capital to erect a Chinese Village in the Plaisance, and the Theatre, Joss House, Garden and Café [...]

By Randy|2021-12-05T10:28:52-06:00December 5th, 2021|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Chinese Village, Joss House, Midway Plaisance, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR, Wah Mee Company|2 Comments

130. Picturesque World’s Fair – Fire-Works July 4th from the roof of the Manufactures Building
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130. Picturesque World’s Fair – Fire-Works July 4th from the roof of the Manufactures Building

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130. Picturesque World’s Fair – Fire-Works July 4th from the roof of the Manufactures Building

FIRE-WORKS JULY 4th FROM THE ROOF OF THE MANUFACTURES BUILDING.--A view of just such quality as was never had before and may not be had again for a long time was gained by those of the World's Fair visitors who witnessed a fire-works display from such vantage ground as the roof of the Manufactures Building afforded. Upon that great area in mid-air a host of people could be assembled and, on the warm summer nights, thousands improved the opportunity [...]

By Randy|2021-11-25T15:48:41-06:00November 25th, 2021|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: fireworks, Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR|0 Comments

129. Picturesque World’s Fair – The Spanish Caravels – Pinta and Nina
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129. Picturesque World’s Fair – The Spanish Caravels – Pinta and Nina

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129. Picturesque World’s Fair – The Spanish Caravels – Pinta and Nina

THE SPANISH CARAVELS, " PINTA" AND " NIÑA."—The Spanish Caravels should have had their names painted on their sides to distinguish them apart; at least, so thought many of the visitors to the Fair; for their build was singularly alike with the " Santa Maria " and " Pinta." The " Niña " was distinguishable enough, as she had no raised deck at the bow, did not overhang like the others, and had no square sails of the ordinary [...]

By Randy|2021-11-10T07:05:54-06:00November 10th, 2021|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Alonzo Pinzon, Caravels, Christopher Columbus, Niña, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR, Pinta, Santa Maria, South Pond, Yanez Pinzon|2 Comments

128. Picturesque World’s Fair – The Falls of the Columbian Fountain
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128. Picturesque World’s Fair – The Falls of the Columbian Fountain

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128. Picturesque World’s Fair – The Falls of the Columbian Fountain

THE FALLS OF THE COLUMBIAN FOUNTAIN.—Viewed from its front, and at a point not remote, the overflow of the Columbian Fountain afforded the spectacle of one of the most charming of'cataracts. The mass of water tumbled down from level to level in a great foaming semi-circle, until, finally, it plunged into the Grand Basin, a white sheet impress-ive in its beauty. Wider than the famous Falls of Minnehaha, though with not quite so much descent, the falls of the [...]

By Randy|2021-10-27T04:42:44-05:00October 27th, 2021|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Columbian Fountain, gondolas, Grand Basin, MacMonnies Fountain, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR|0 Comments

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

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 [...]

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|0 Comments

“Jennie” survived the Great Chicago Fire and visited the 1893 World’s Fair
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“Jennie” survived the Great Chicago Fire and visited the 1893 World’s Fair

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“Jennie” survived the Great Chicago Fire and visited the 1893 World’s Fair

The 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition celebrated the twenty-second anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 with “Chicago Day” on October 9, 1893. With around three-quarter-of-a-million people filling the fairgrounds, it was thought to be the largest peaceful gathering in human history. Among the visitors was one special guest who had survived the Fire due to the dedication her “mother,” ten-year-old Fannie Belle Becker. The article below, from the October 10, 1893, issue of the Chicago Tribune, describes the [...]

By Scott|2021-10-09T12:56:48-05:00October 9th, 2021|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Chicago Day|1 Comment

126. Picturesque World’s Fair – The Penobscot Indian Camp
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126. Picturesque World’s Fair – The Penobscot Indian Camp

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126. Picturesque World’s Fair – The Penobscot Indian Camp

THE PENOBSCOT INDIAN CAMP.—To those familiar with the history of the Indians who lived near the Atlantic coast and so came into early contact with the whites, the Penobscot Indian Camp, or Village, was an object of interested study. There were four families of Penobscots, or, as they were once called, "Panawanskeks," and there was also a lodge of Iroquois, peopled by a few of the living representatives of that famous tribe, and forming a part of the New [...]

By Randy|2021-09-18T04:39:43-05:00September 18th, 2021|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: American Indian Village, Iroquois Indians, New York, Penobscot Indian Camp, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR|0 Comments

125. Picturesque World’s Fair – Arab and Bedouin Horsemen
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125. Picturesque World’s Fair – Arab and Bedouin Horsemen

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125. Picturesque World’s Fair – Arab and Bedouin Horsemen

ARAB AND BEDOUIN HORSEMEN.—Just what the distinction was between Arabs and Bedouins, visitors to the Wild East Show were puzzled to determine. Those of them who had ever paid attention to the terms counted "Arab " as a general description, including all the desert dwellers, and " Bedouin " as something more definite, applying to a single tribe or nation. They left the Wild East Show with just as much and no more information on the subject than they [...]

By Randy|2021-09-06T03:35:59-05:00September 6th, 2021|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Bedouin Camp-Wild East Show, Ottoman's Arab Camp, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR, Wild-East Show|0 Comments

“The dearest spot on earth” at the 1893 World’s Fair
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“The dearest spot on earth” at the 1893 World’s Fair

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“The dearest spot on earth” at the 1893 World’s Fair

What some visitors thought of as exorbitant prices for food and lodging in Chicago during the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition became the stuff of legend. The fanciful tale told below, originally published in the July 2, 1895, Chicago Tribune and reprinted in newspapers across the country, captures one not-so-fond memory of the 1893 World’s Fair. We can only guess to the identity of the restaurant he had patronized. A photograph by Charles Dudley Arnold of the lovely Café [...]

By Scott|2021-08-24T20:30:51-05:00August 29th, 2021|Categories: REPRINTS|0 Comments