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“A credit to Chicago’s wonderful pluck”: An Easterner’s take on the White City
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“A credit to Chicago’s wonderful pluck”: An Easterner’s take on the White City

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“A credit to Chicago’s wonderful pluck”: An Easterner’s take on the White City

This gracious comment about the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition comes a Connecticut man visiting the Fair in early May. [reprinted from “Noted by a Meriden Man: Jottings at the Big World’s Fair” Meriden (CT) Daily Republican May 6, 1893] The number, area and styles of the buildings on Jackson Park are astonishing and a credit to Chicago's wonderful pluck and executive ability. New York would never have poured out the millions to erect the mammoth white structures that her [...]

By Scott|2023-12-15T09:15:08-06:00December 16th, 2023|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: New York|0 Comments

The Columbian Exposition, a Scintillating Diadem
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The Columbian Exposition, a Scintillating Diadem

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The Columbian Exposition, a Scintillating Diadem

Mr. Gerald James of London, puzzled by the discouraging impressions of the Fair reaching him through the New York press, came to Chicago to see for himself what the Exposition had to offer an open mind. “The Fair is supreme,” he wrote. “It is a scintillating diadem crowning the civilized world with the honor and glory of peace. It tells a story that centuries of books and newspapers could not tell, and is worth more to a man or [...]

By Scott|2023-12-12T15:28:53-06:00December 15th, 2023|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Haiti Building, Kansas State Building, Lewis Lindsay Dyche, Tower of Oranges, Vermont State Building|0 Comments

158. Picturesque World’s Fair – A Vista of State Buildings
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158. Picturesque World’s Fair – A Vista of State Buildings

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158. Picturesque World’s Fair – A Vista of State Buildings

A VISTA OF STATE BUILDINGS.—Looking southwest from an elevated point about the middle of the north line of the Exposition Grounds, a view was had of a number of the most attractive State Buildings, and an idea obtained of the general appearance of this charming city by itself, which might be called the White City's great suburb, though, of course, quite as much a part of the Exposition as anything on the grounds. The White City proper was the [...]

By Randy|2023-12-09T09:44:01-06:00December 12th, 2023|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Arizona, California State Building, Delaware State Building, Idaho State Building, Illinois State Building, Maryland State Building, Montana State Building, New York State Building, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR, Utah State Building|0 Comments

Literary Tributes to the World’s Fair
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Literary Tributes to the World’s Fair

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Literary Tributes to the World’s Fair

Reprinted below are ten “Literary Tributes to the World’s Fair” from the October 1893 issue of The Dial, a literary magazine published in Chicago. The notable contributors are: Mary Hartwell Catherwood (1847—1902), Midwest author of popular historical romances, short stories, and poetry; Charles Dudley Warner (1829–1900), essayist and novelist best remembered as the co-author with Mark Twain of The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873); George W. Cable (1844–1925), novelist who portrayed Creole life in his native New [...]

By Scott|2023-12-09T08:37:26-06:00December 9th, 2023|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Charles Dudley Warner, George W. Cable, Harriet Monroe, Henry B. Fuller, Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen, Mary Hartwell Catherwood, Paul Bourget, Richard Watson Gilder, Walter Besant, William P. Trent|0 Comments

Andrew Carnegie’s Eulogy for the 1893 World’s Fair
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Andrew Carnegie’s Eulogy for the 1893 World’s Fair

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Andrew Carnegie’s Eulogy for the 1893 World’s Fair

Rags-to-riches immigrant, Gilded Age capitalist, and steel magnate Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) built bridges and skyscrapers that still stand today. His amassed wealth and radical philanthropy built institutions that should stand even longer—museums and a college for Pittsburgh, a music hall for New York, and thousands of libraries around the world. Carnegie was well on his way in 1892 to becoming the richest man in the world when union-busting efforts and a violent strike at the Carnegie Steel plant in [...]

By Scott|2023-11-25T07:15:11-06:00November 25th, 2023|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Andrew Carnegie|0 Comments

The White City Wish Book: Toys and Holiday Gifts from the 1893 World’s Fair
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The White City Wish Book: Toys and Holiday Gifts from the 1893 World’s Fair

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The White City Wish Book: Toys and Holiday Gifts from the 1893 World’s Fair

What holiday gift would you have wished for? In the years following the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, children could have received any number of fair-themed toys and games. Shown below are some examples advertised in the Montgomery Ward Catalogue & Buyer's Guide for 1895, the Carl P. Stirn Catalog of 1893, and various newspapers of the era. Which items would you have circled in the White City Wishbook? Views of the Fair Toys Administration Building Banks Ferris Wheel [...]

By Scott|2023-11-24T08:28:03-06:00November 24th, 2023|Categories: ANTIQUES, REPRINTS|Tags: collecting|2 Comments

The Great Aussie Apple Race to the 1893 World’s Fair
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The Great Aussie Apple Race to the 1893 World’s Fair

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The Great Aussie Apple Race to the 1893 World’s Fair

In the spring of 1893, two apple barrels in New South Wales, Australia, embarked on separate paths in a race around the globe. Heading in opposite directions, they reunited inside the Horticultural Building at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Which apples won, red or gold? How many days did it take? How did they stay fresh for so long? Find out about their journey in the story below, from the June 7, 1893, issue of the Chicago [...]

By Scott|2023-09-23T18:10:16-05:00October 21st, 2023|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Horticultural Building, New South Wales|0 Comments

157. Picturesque World’s Fair – Camel and Driver in Cairo Street
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157. Picturesque World’s Fair – Camel and Driver in Cairo Street

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157. Picturesque World’s Fair – Camel and Driver in Cairo Street

CAMEL AND DRIVER IN CAIRO STREET.—The Cairo Street camels had varied duties to perform, at one time being hurried along with much mauling and gesticulation to convey a rider, or perhaps a couple, from one end of the street to the other and unload them hurriedly to make room for other experimenting people, and again, bedecked with cumbrous trappings, led along the same boisterous thoroughfare to take part in some procession alleged to be a duplicate of what may [...]

By Randy|2023-10-17T05:30:04-05:00October 17th, 2023|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: camels, Midway Plaisance, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR, Street in Cairo|0 Comments

An Awful Memory from Chicago Day, 1893
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An Awful Memory from Chicago Day, 1893

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An Awful Memory from Chicago Day, 1893

Described as “the greatest gathering in history” and the “grandest spectacle in modern times,” Chicago Day smashed all attendance figures at the 1893 World's Fair. On October 9, over three-quarters of a million of people gathered on the fairgrounds to commemorate the twenty-second anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and to celebrate the great city that emerged from the flames to host the Columbian Exposition. One float in the evening parade offered a most poignant reflection of [...]

By Scott|2023-10-09T07:57:17-05:00October 9th, 2023|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Chicago Day|0 Comments

156. Picturesque World’s Fair – Interior View in Old Vienna
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156. Picturesque World’s Fair – Interior View in Old Vienna

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156. Picturesque World’s Fair – Interior View in Old Vienna

INTERIOR VIEW IN OLD VIENNA.—The memory of hours passed in the Austrian Village, or reproduction of a portion of the Vienna of a hundred and fifty years ago, is, perhaps, what will linger longest in the minds of those who "did" the Plaisance thoroughly during the past Exposition. The quaint, bustling scene presented on every side, the suppers in the open air and the delicious music afforded, combined to make the resort one worthy of many visits. The greatest [...]

By Randy|2023-10-10T17:10:17-05:00September 20th, 2023|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Austrian Village (Old Vienna), Midway Plaisance, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR|0 Comments