REPRINTS – Page 9 – Chicago's 1893 Worlds Fair

120. Picturesque World’s Fair – A Load of Michigan Pine Logs
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120. Picturesque World’s Fair – A Load of Michigan Pine Logs

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120. Picturesque World’s Fair – A Load of Michigan Pine Logs

A LOAD OF MICHIGAN PINE LOGS.—The lumber industry in Michigan is conducted on a grand scale, and something of the methods pursued was illustrated by a firm which contributed a single load of logs to the Exposition. Twenty-five saw logs were shown in a single load at the Centennial Exposition. Michigan simply doubled this. Never before was seen such a load of logs. It consisted of fifty magnificent lengths of white pine, borne on a single sled, containing forty-six [...]

By Randy|2021-06-14T08:09:17-05:00June 14th, 2021|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Forestry Building, Logger's Camp, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR|0 Comments

119. Picturesque World’s Fair – The Transportation Building
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119. Picturesque World’s Fair – The Transportation Building

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119. Picturesque World’s Fair – The Transportation Building

THE TRANSPORTATION BUILDING.—The Transportation Building was unique among the great structures of the Columbian Exposition in that it was the single departure from a general rule, the contrast and the foil to all the others. It was distinct in its style of architecture, and alone was decorated exteriorly in colors. It was not of those buildings which won for the Exposition the title of "The White City." The main building, located just west of the south end of the [...]

By Randy|2021-06-08T09:23:03-05:00May 30th, 2021|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Dankmar Adler, Golden Door, Louis Sullivan, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR, Transportation Building|0 Comments

A Room with a View … of Diana
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A Room with a View … of Diana

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A Room with a View … of Diana

In late November of 1892, Moses P. Handy moved into his new office inside the Administration Building on the Columbian Exposition fairgrounds in Jackson Park. As Chief of the Department of Publicity and Promotion, Handy had a staff of between four and forty-five, including local newspapermen Paul Hull and Sam V. Steele, both well-known among Chicago’s writers. The Chicago Times (November 29, 1892) reported on the move-in and on the Publicity Chief’s impressive view of Augustus Saint-Gaudens’ marvelous statue [...]

By Scott|2021-05-24T10:15:31-05:00May 24th, 2021|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Administration Building, Diana, Moses P. Handy|0 Comments

Feral Feline Fights for Food on the Fairgrounds
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Feral Feline Fights for Food on the Fairgrounds

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Feral Feline Fights for Food on the Fairgrounds

Several media outlets, including the Guardian and People, are reporting on Chicago’s use of feral cats to beat back our nationally recognized rat population. It’s old news. We’ve been relying on our feline friends since at least the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. “Not many people are aware that the World’s Fair has a cat,” wrote the Chicago Tribune in September 1893. “This ignorance on the part of visitors is largely due to the fact that the cat does not appear [...]

By Scott|2021-05-16T12:56:25-05:00May 17th, 2021|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Administration Building, Machinery Hall, Midway Plaisance|0 Comments

118. Picturesque World’s Fair – The Great Steam Hammer
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118. Picturesque World’s Fair – The Great Steam Hammer

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118. Picturesque World’s Fair – The Great Steam Hammer

THE GREAT STEAM HAMMER.—One exhibit in the Transportation Building always attracted curious inspection. To many unfamiliar with the heavy machinery used in the vast manufactories of today, its use was not apparent, but to those informed in such fields it was an object of decided interest. This was the model of the monster steam hammer in use by the Bethlehem Iron Company, of Pennsylvania, the largest steam hammer in the world. Though painted to represent iron, the model was [...]

By Randy|2025-05-28T09:22:45-05:00May 9th, 2021|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Bethlehem Iron Steam Hammer, Dankmar Adler, Louis Sullivan, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR, Transportation Building|0 Comments

117. Picturesque World’s Fair – The Wisconsin Building
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117. Picturesque World’s Fair – The Wisconsin Building

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117. Picturesque World’s Fair – The Wisconsin Building

THE WISCONSIN BUILDING.—It was intended that the Wisconsin Building should be indicative of the resources of the state, and such it was in fact. All the visible material came from Wisconsin, the brown stone, the pressed brick, the shingles and even the plate glass being home products. A handsome building was the result, too. The rich brown stone has long been famous for such use, and the design of the structure was such as to enable its employment to [...]

By Randy|2021-04-26T06:04:24-05:00May 1st, 2021|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR, State Buildings, Wisconsin State Building|0 Comments

116. Picturesque World’s Fair – The Sedan Chair Carriers
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116. Picturesque World’s Fair – The Sedan Chair Carriers

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116. Picturesque World’s Fair – The Sedan Chair Carriers

THE SEDAN CHAIR CARRIERS.—There was a partial return to the ways of our forefathers at the Fair, though the fad was not introduced as the result of any spasmodic whim of society, but by fez-wearing men from the Orient. The concession for the Sedan chairs belonged to the Turkish Village people and near this, at one side of the Plaisance, the Sedan bearers, sturdy Turks as one could wish to see, stood soliciting custom and getting a great deal [...]

By Randy|2021-04-15T18:20:58-05:00April 15th, 2021|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Gospel Chariots, Midway Plaisance, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR, rolling chairs, sedan chair, Turkish Village|0 Comments

115. Picturesque World’s Fair – Under the Horticulture Building Dome
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115. Picturesque World’s Fair – Under the Horticulture Building Dome

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115. Picturesque World’s Fair – Under the Horticulture Building Dome

UNDER THE HORTICULTURE BUILDING DOME.—The largest hothouse in the world had sights worth seeing. The great dome of the Horticulture Building, one hundred and eighty feet in height and one hundred and fourteen feet in diameter, overhung a charming scene where gigantic palms, ferns, bamboos and other products of tropical growth were flourishing, and where one coming in from the grounds outside seemed transported suddenly to some equatorial country. Directly underneath the dome in the center of the building [...]

By Randy|2021-03-28T10:31:27-05:00March 28th, 2021|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Horticultural Building, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR|1 Comment

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

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 [...]

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|0 Comments

114. Picturesque World’s Fair – The Norwegian Building
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114. Picturesque World’s Fair – The Norwegian Building

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114. Picturesque World’s Fair – The Norwegian Building

THE NORWEGIAN BUILDING.—Despite their political connection, Norway and Sweden had separate buildings at the World's Fair, each a credit to its country. The Norwegian Building was situated near the lake front and east of the North Pond, amid a group of trees familiar to those who have visited Jackson Park before an Exposition was thought of. In size the building was sixty by twenty-five feet, and was con-structed almost entirely of Norway pine. All the workmen employed and all [...]

By Randy|2021-03-07T11:18:00-06:00March 7th, 2021|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Norway, Norway Building, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR, Sweden, Viking Ship|0 Comments

113. Picturesque World’s Fair – North Front of the French Building
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113. Picturesque World’s Fair – North Front of the French Building

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113. Picturesque World’s Fair – North Front of the French Building

NORTH FRONT OF THE FRENCH BUILDING.—The French Building at the Exposition consisted, practically, of two parts connected by a semi-circular colonnade. Of these the one to the north, a facade of which appears in the illustration, was the larger and more important. Built in the Renaissance style and richly decorated, it was a beautiful object in its conspicuous position at the junction of the main east and west thoroughfare across the grounds and the lake front Promenade. A large [...]

By Randy|2021-02-21T11:55:41-06:00February 21st, 2021|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR, Statue of the French Republic|0 Comments

112. Picturesque World’s Fair – A Group of Singhalese
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112. Picturesque World’s Fair – A Group of Singhalese

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112. Picturesque World’s Fair – A Group of Singhalese

A GROUP OF SINGHALESE.—The Singhalese seemed to have a good time of it at the World's Fair. Their country was well represented by a charming building and fine exhibit of the products of the land, and the people themselves, in family groups, had both occupation and amusement. The old hymn to the effect that "Ceylon's lovely Isle" is a place where nature has done pretty well and "only man is vile" seemed hardly justified by the appearance or the [...]

By Randy|2021-02-21T07:49:29-06:00February 18th, 2021|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Ceylon, Ceylon Building, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR|0 Comments

Love on the Lagoon at the 1893 World’s Fair
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Love on the Lagoon at the 1893 World’s Fair

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Love on the Lagoon at the 1893 World’s Fair

A romantic ride in an authentic Venetian gondola was a dreamy treat for many visitors to the 1893 World’s Fair. Guiding these craft through the Grand Basin and Lagoon were fifty-seven Venetian gondoliers brought from Italy by the World's Fair Venetian Gondola Company of Chicago. A Venetian swan gondola gliding across the South Canal, along the western side of the Agricultural Building at the 1893 World’s Fair. [Image from The Dream City. A Portfolio of Photographic Views of [...]

By Scott|2021-04-02T11:15:33-05:00February 14th, 2021|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Ethnographical Exhibit, gondolas|0 Comments

111. Picturesque World’s Fair – A group of Arabs, Turks and Bedouins
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111. Picturesque World’s Fair – A group of Arabs, Turks and Bedouins

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111. Picturesque World’s Fair – A group of Arabs, Turks and Bedouins

A GROUP OF ARABS, TURKS AND BEDOUINS.—If there be a region in the world where caste and race distinctions are forgotten where the religion is the same, it would appear to be in northern Africa, for the people at the Fair from that continent seemed utterly devoid of prejudice as regarded each other. The group here represented should have the addition of some swarthy Nubian chief, to convey a full idea of the good fellowship which prevailed, but, as [...]

By Randy|2021-01-27T06:59:36-06:00January 27th, 2021|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Bedouin, Bedouin Camp-Wild East Show, Ottoman's Arab Camp, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR, Turkish Village|0 Comments

This brilliant architect and designer, John Wellborn Root
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This brilliant architect and designer, John Wellborn Root

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This brilliant architect and designer, John Wellborn Root

January 15, 2021, marks the 130th anniversary of the death of architect John Wellborn Root in 1891 at the age of 41. As Consulting Architect to the 1893 World’s Fair with his partner Daniel Burnham, Root’s invaluable contributions are recorded by Harriet Monroe in her chapter “The World’s Columbian Exposition” in John Wellborn Root: A Study of His Life and Work (Houghton, Mifflin & Company, 1896), reprinted here. On January 20, 1891, the Committee on Grounds and Buildings of [...]

By Scott|2021-04-02T11:17:11-05:00January 15th, 2021|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: John Root|0 Comments

110. Picturesque World’s Fair – Javanese Sweethearts
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110. Picturesque World’s Fair – Javanese Sweethearts

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110. Picturesque World’s Fair – Javanese Sweethearts

JAVANESE SWEETHEARTS.—The flavor of soft sentiment and romance almost civilized which pertained to the village of the gentle Javanese crystallized in one instance very prettily. Never, probably, did two Javanese before make so long a bridal tour as a couple who were at the Fair, for it extended from Chicago to their home in Java. Had they but fallen in love and wedded a little earlier they might have made the journey twice as long, including the round trip. [...]

By Randy|2021-01-11T08:14:44-06:00January 11th, 2021|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Java Village, Midway Plaisance, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR|0 Comments

December 24, 1890: An Invitation to all the Nations of the Earth to Exhibit at the World’s Columbian Exposition
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December 24, 1890: An Invitation to all the Nations of the Earth to Exhibit at the World’s Columbian Exposition

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December 24, 1890: An Invitation to all the Nations of the Earth to Exhibit at the World’s Columbian Exposition

One hundred and thirty years ago today, the President of the United States extended an invitation to the nations of the world to come together for a World’s Fair in Chicago. President Benjamin Harrison. [Image from Campbell, James B. Campbell's Illustrated History of the World's Columbian Exposition, Volume I. M. Juul & Co., 1894.] December 24, 1890 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation WHEREAS satisfactory proof has been presented to me that [...]

By Scott|2021-04-02T11:17:26-05:00December 24th, 2020|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Benjamin Harrison|1 Comment

109. Picturesque World’s Fair – Athletic Pastimes in A Street In Cairo
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109. Picturesque World’s Fair – Athletic Pastimes in A Street In Cairo

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109. Picturesque World’s Fair – Athletic Pastimes in A Street In Cairo

ATHLETIC PASTIMES IN A STREET IN CAIRO.— They were unquestionably a merry lot who made up the resident population of a Street in Cairo, so full of animal spirits as to often engage in their pastimes, even when there were no visitors in attendance. Naturally, among such people, with such lives as theirs had been, physical prowess was held in high esteem, and the hero of a combat with lance or scimiter was in their eyes a greater man [...]

By Randy|2020-12-06T08:39:19-06:00December 6th, 2020|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Midway Plaisance, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR, Street in Cairo|0 Comments

“Halcyon Days in the Dream City’’ Part 17: “Vale”
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“Halcyon Days in the Dream City’’ Part 17: “Vale”

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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 Scott|2021-04-02T11:18:16-05:00November 30th, 2020|Categories: REPRINTS|0 Comments

“Halcyon Days in the Dream City’’ Part 16: The Transportation Building
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“Halcyon Days in the Dream City’’ Part 16: The Transportation Building

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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 Scott|2021-04-02T11:18:24-05:00November 29th, 2020|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Empire State Express, Golden Door, Transportation Building|2 Comments

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