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166. Picturesque World’s Fair – The Rhode Island Building
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166. Picturesque World’s Fair – The Rhode Island Building

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166. Picturesque World’s Fair – The Rhode Island Building

THE RHODE ISLAND BUILDING.—The smallest state in the Union made by no means the smallest showing at the Columbian Exposition. She contributed $50,000 toward a state exhibit, and her pretty building, which cost $10,000, was presented to Chicago at the close of the Fair. It was a graceful structure, in the style of a Greek mansion, its columns and pilasters enriched by decorated moldings and a balustrade surrounding the roof. The interior contained rooms for the commissioners, for guests, [...]

By Randy|2024-07-23T20:53:41-05:00July 21st, 2024|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR, Rhode Island State Building|0 Comments

Horace Spencer Fiske’s odes to Daniel Chester French’s Columbian Exposition sculptures
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Horace Spencer Fiske’s odes to Daniel Chester French’s Columbian Exposition sculptures

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Horace Spencer Fiske’s odes to Daniel Chester French’s Columbian Exposition sculptures

The great sculptural works of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition have been memorialized in photographs, paintings, and prose. Poetry, too, honors some of the famous sculptures from the Fair. Horace Spencer Fiske (1859–1940) taught English at Beloit College and Wisconsin State Normal School before a long career on the faculty and administration of the University of Chicago beginning in 1894. He stablished the John Billings Fiske Prize in Poetry (in honor of his father) for University students in 1919 [...]

By Scott|2024-07-11T06:07:08-05:00July 11th, 2024|Categories: REPRINTS, Uncategorized|Tags: Columbus Quadriga, Daniel Chester French, Edward Potter, Peristyle, poetry, Statue of the Republic|0 Comments

Eyewitness to the Cold Storage Building fire
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Eyewitness to the Cold Storage Building fire

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Eyewitness to the Cold Storage Building fire

Mr. Bryan and Mr. King could not have imaged the infernal tragedy about to unfold at the Columbian Exposition on the afternoon of Monday, July 10, 1893. Thomas Barbour Bryan was a leading figure in the effort to bring the World’s Columbian Exposition to Chicago and had been its First Vice-President. William Fletcher King served as the president of Cornell College from 1863 until 1908. Their conversation was interrupted by smoke billowing from the cupola of a building in [...]

By Scott|2024-07-03T08:41:57-05:00July 10th, 2024|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Cold Storage Building, Thomas B. Bryan|0 Comments

“Ring the Bells!” by Richard Lew Dawson
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“Ring the Bells!” by Richard Lew Dawson

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“Ring the Bells!” by Richard Lew Dawson

Essayist, story writer, song writer, critic and poet, Richard Lew Dawson (1852–1921) wrote for many popular newspapers and magazines, including the Indianapolis Sentinel, Indianapolis Journal, Chicago Current, Saturday Herald, and Century Magazine. He was a founding member of the Western Association of Writers in 1886. A few years before his death on April 23, 1921, the Hoosier writer moved to San Francisco, where he departed this world on the anniversary of Shakespeare’s birthday. Dawson’s poem “Ring the Bells!,” celebrating [...]

By Scott|2024-07-03T08:29:08-05:00July 4th, 2024|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: July 4|0 Comments

165. Picturesque World’s Fair – The Texas Building
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165. Picturesque World’s Fair – The Texas Building

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165. Picturesque World’s Fair – The Texas Building

THE TEXAS BUILDING.—The Texas Building, a fine structure, was a credit to the patriotism and energy of the ladies of that state and equally a rebuke to the legislature of the great commonwealth which failed to make the needed appropriation in time. It was to the women alone that praise for Texas' representation at the Fair was due. The building occupied a fine site near the northern extremity of the grounds, not far from the Fifty-seventh Street entrance. The [...]

By Randy|2024-06-16T11:53:56-05:00June 16th, 2024|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR, Texas State Building|0 Comments

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

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 [...]

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|0 Comments

Reaching the fairgrounds by cable car, cattle car, steamboat, or L?
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Reaching the fairgrounds by cable car, cattle car, steamboat, or L?

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Reaching the fairgrounds by cable car, cattle car, steamboat, or L?

Visitors to the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition had many options for transportation to (and within), the fairgrounds. The poem below, about various transportation modes, may have been a sly advertisement for the company mentioned in the final line. “The Crowd Entering the Grounds from the Elevated Railway,” drawn by T. de Thulstrup after a sketch by T. Dart Walker. [Image from Harper’s Weekly June 10, 1893.] Some reached The Fair by steamboat, .....Some ride upon the “L;” Some bump [...]

By Scott|2024-04-27T10:31:58-05:00May 2nd, 2024|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: elevated train, rolling chairs|0 Comments

“The crush was terrible”: A firsthand account of Opening Day at the 1893 World’s Fair
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“The crush was terrible”: A firsthand account of Opening Day at the 1893 World’s Fair

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“The crush was terrible”: A firsthand account of Opening Day at the 1893 World’s Fair

A correspondent to the Russell Record in Russell County, Kansas, offered this account of Opening Day of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. Despite having a rather unpleasant time adrift in the “Surging Sea of Humanity” assembled in Jackson Park for the ceremony, and despite the World’s Fair being far from complete in early May, this Kansan advised that “No one, who can conveniently see it, should fail to do so.” Thousands and thousands of people collected on the grounds [...]

By Scott|2024-05-01T06:11:39-05:00May 1st, 2024|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Opening Day|0 Comments

“Sick of the picturesque”: Hamlin Garland oversells the 1893 World’s Fair
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“Sick of the picturesque”: Hamlin Garland oversells the 1893 World’s Fair

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“Sick of the picturesque”: Hamlin Garland oversells the 1893 World’s Fair

Note: Hamlin Garland will be inducted into the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame at a ceremony on Tuesday, April 16, 2024, from 5:30—8 pm at the Chicago History Museum. Further information about Hamlin Garland can be found at the Hamlin Garland Society website https://www.garlandsociety.org/ “Sell the cook stove if necessary and come. You must see this fair.” This oft-repeated quote, brimming with enthusiasm and promise for the 1893 World’s Fair, was Hamlin Garland’s enticement for his parents to visit [...]

By Scott|2024-04-10T18:43:39-05:00April 12th, 2024|Categories: HISTORY, REPRINTS|Tags: Bessie Potter Vonnoh, Congress of Authors, Congress of General Education, Hamlin Garland, Janet Scudder, White Rabbits, World's Congress Auxiliary|0 Comments

25 Impressions of the 1893 World’s Fair
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25 Impressions of the 1893 World’s Fair

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25 Impressions of the 1893 World’s Fair

Toward the close of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, The Critic invited twenty-five notable scholars, writers, and leaders of the day to offer their brief impressions of the World’s Fair. At such a monumental event with so many novelties … what impressed them the most? It is interesting how frequently these contributors sing the same notes as they rhapsodize about the fairgrounds at night and the illumination of the Court of Honor, praise (except for Henry Fuller!) [...]