“1893 World’s Columbian Exposition: Crossroads of America” podcast

The podcast Tour Guide Tell All brings listeners on a visit to the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago with their episode “1893 World’s Columbian Exposition: Crossroads of America” (published on April 9, 2021). In just under an hour, Rebecca Fachner and Becca Grawl cover a wide range of subjects, including “famous firsts of the fair,” Lyman J. Gage, Daniel Burnham, Frederick Law Olmsted, Gen. George R. Davis, George Westinghouse, Frederick Douglass, Eadweard Muybridge and much more. The hosts make [...]

By |2021-06-02T08:41:57-05:00June 2nd, 2021|Categories: AUDIO, NEWS|0 Comments
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“The Spatula and the White City” podcast

“One of my favorite things in the world is the spatula,” confesses Diane T. Sands, host of the podcast This Fact is Overdue. In the episode “The Spatula and the White City” (March 1, 2021), she shares interesting connections between this simple and useful kitchen utensil and the 1893 World’s Fair. Along the way, listeners will learn about Anna M. Mangin, a young Black woman who invented the pastry fork in 1891. Her invention was exhibited in the New [...]

By |2021-05-01T14:07:28-05:00May 2nd, 2021|Categories: AUDIO, NEWS|Tags: |0 Comments
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“Frederick Law Olmsted” podcast from Cream City Windy City

Wendy Bright’s podcast Cream City~Windy City explores interesting connections between Milwaukee and Chicago. Episode #10, “Frederick Law Olmsted,” (released April 21, 2021) focuses on the “Father of Landscape Architecture.” In 1869, Chicago hired the firm of Olmsted, Vaux & Co. to design a park system on the South Side. Twenty-two years later, Frederick Law Olmsted and his associate Henry Codman redesigned Jackson Park and the Midway Plaisance to serve as the fairgrounds for the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. Around [...]

By |2021-04-25T10:08:07-05:00April 27th, 2021|Categories: AUDIO, NEWS|Tags: |0 Comments
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The Windy Cities Historians Podcast visits the Columbian Exposition

The Windy Cities Historians Podcast has been working its way chronologically through Chicago history and has now reached the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. Episodes 19-21, “The Third Star,” are a three-part look at the event now represented in Chicago’s municipal flag. Co-hosts Chris Lynch and Patrick McBriarty interview Paul Durica, the Director of Exhibitions at the Newberry Library and co-editor of the annotated Chicago by Day and Night, and historian and writer Jeff Nichols. The show’s deep dive into [...]

By |2021-04-03T15:34:36-05:00April 4th, 2021|Categories: AUDIO, NEWS|0 Comments
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Some Recent Podcasts about the 1893 World’s Fair

Listen up! Several new podcasts discuss a wide variety of interesting topics about the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, from the Ferris Wheel to a Beer War. Grab your ear buds and check them out. If you know of other recent 183 World's Fair podcasts, let us know or post a link in the Comments below. Engines of Our Ingenuity 1968 “Vignettes From the Fair” (Dec. 13, 2020) Everything, Ranked “S1E2 - Biscuits+Gravy, Dinos, The 1893 World's Fair” [Note: Adult [...]

By |2023-11-04T19:14:27-05:00December 19th, 2020|Categories: AUDIO|0 Comments
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Utah Women Raise Money for the 1893 World’s Fair

A new podcast highlights the work of Margaret Salisbury and women in Utah, who raised funds for their state displays in the Woman’s Building and in the Utah Building of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The Zion’s Suffragists podcast from the Deseret News explores how Utah pioneered voting rights for women in the United States. Episode 3, “Woman will be restored,” features Salisbury, who served on the Board of Lady Managers as one of its vice-presidents and [...]

By |2020-01-31T14:06:48-06:00January 31st, 2020|Categories: AUDIO, NEWS|Tags: , , , |1 Comment
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Jan. 11-12, 2020: “Sangamon Songs” Musical Play Tells of Illinois Boy Who Visited the 1893 World’s Fair (Skokie, IL)

A diary written by a 16-year-old Illinois boy who visited the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago is the source material for a new musical. Sangamon Songs: A Musical Play by Tom Irwin and John W. Arden will be performed at Skokie Theatre for Performing Arts on Jan. 11 and 12, 2010. After discovering Harry Glen Ludlam’s journal in his family farmhouse, Tom Irwin began composing an acoustic song cycle about late-nineteenth-century life of a teenager in a small town [...]

By |2022-07-24T10:28:28-05:00January 6th, 2020|Categories: AUDIO, EVENTS (past), THEATER|2 Comments
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“From the Midway” a new 1893 World’s Fair podcast from the Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune recently launched a new podcast series called “From the Midway” that explores the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition on its 125th anniversary year. Host Colleen Connolly, digital news editor at the Trib, promises to offer listeners stories about “the legacy left behind by the fair, including the remnants that can still be viewed today, the cultural legacy of the fair, the evolution of the Ferris wheel and products that made their debut at the exposition, and still [...]

By |2022-04-29T18:39:22-05:00September 22nd, 2018|Categories: AUDIO, NEWS|Tags: , , , |0 Comments
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Oct. 17, 2018: “Music at the 1893 World’s Fair” at the Newberry Library (Chicago)

The Newberry Library’s Pictures from an Exposition: Visualizing the 1893 World's Fair includes a series of rich programs about the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. On Wednesday, October 17, 2018, the Newberry will host “Music at the 1893 World's Fair”. A musical performance with accompanying commentary will feature music drawn from the Newberry’s extensive archive of World’s Columbian Exposition material, including pieces actually heard at the Fair in 1893 along with music that was sold as “souvenir” pieces. The performance runs [...]

By |2022-10-17T08:57:55-05:00September 17th, 2018|Categories: AUDIO, EVENTS (past)|Tags: , |0 Comments
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“Shock of the New: The Legacy of the 1893 World’s Fair” on BackStory

On May 11, the American history podcast BackStory released episode #0238, an hour-long exploration of the Columbian Exposition titled “Shock of the New: The Legacy of the 1893 World’s Fair.” Hosts Ed Ayers, Nathan Connolly, and Joanne Freeman invite listeners to visit the fairgrounds starting with a segment called “Dreaming Bigger.” Historian Bernie Carlson then explores the role of electricity at the fair in “Electric Feel.” Purdue University Associate Professor & Director Women's Studies Tracey Jean Boisseau highlights the [...]

By |2022-10-08T09:32:36-05:00May 13th, 2018|Categories: AUDIO, NEWS|Tags: , , , , |0 Comments
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