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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

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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