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148. Picturesque World’s Fair – The Spanish Government Building
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148. Picturesque World’s Fair – The Spanish Government Building

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148. Picturesque World’s Fair – The Spanish Government Building

THE SPANISH GOVERNMENT BUILDING.—It was to be expected that Spain, the country in one respect most honored by the World's Columbian Exposition, should be well represented in the displays, and that its government should enter into the broad spirit of the occasion. The Spanish government showed earnestness in its course from the beginning, not merely in assisting Spanish exhibitors but in such special direction as the building of the duplicate "Santa Maria," the flagship of Columbus, the loan of [...]

By Randy|2023-02-12T00:27:36-06:00February 12th, 2023|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Canada Building, Caravels, Convent of La Rabida, Germany Building, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR, Santa Maria, Spain Building|0 Comments

147. Picturesque World’s Fair – The French Colonies Building
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147. Picturesque World’s Fair – The French Colonies Building

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147. Picturesque World’s Fair – The French Colonies Building

THE FRENCH COLONIES BUILDING.—Situated well over toward the southeast corner of the grounds and out of the great tide of movement, the French Colonies Building at the Exposition did not attract the attention it merited, though it attained a degree of popularity toward the close, as the interesting nature of its contents became known. Its locality was sometimes referred to as "the back yard of the Fair," though it contained many curious and beautiful displays, not the least among [...]

By admin|2023-02-12T00:09:53-06:00January 15th, 2023|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Agricultural Building, Blooker's cocoa mill, French Colonies Building, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR, Progress (whaling bark), South Pond, windmills|0 Comments

“Very sterling qualities about the Hoosiers”: Lunch in the Indiana State Building
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“Very sterling qualities about the Hoosiers”: Lunch in the Indiana State Building

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“Very sterling qualities about the Hoosiers”: Lunch in the Indiana State Building

Hoosiers visiting the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago were mighty proud of the Indiana State Building. Designed by one of distinguished Chicago architect Henry Ives Cobb, the French Gothic structure stood in the southwest section of the state buildings on a lovely spot along the North Pond and nestled between the state buildings of Illinois, California, and Wisconsin. One of the twelve state buildings to receive an award for beauty of design and merit in its display, the [...]

By Scott|2022-12-11T06:16:22-06:00December 11th, 2022|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Indiana State Building|0 Comments

146. Picturesque World’s Fair – Birds-Eye View of State Buildings – Looking Northeast
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146. Picturesque World’s Fair – Birds-Eye View of State Buildings – Looking Northeast

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146. Picturesque World’s Fair – Birds-Eye View of State Buildings – Looking Northeast

BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF STATE BUILDINGS—LOOKING NORTHEAST.—Very popular was the Fifty-seventh street entrance, at the northwest corner of the Exposition Grounds, situated as it was close to a railroad station and at the end of a street car cable system, and hundreds of thousands of people became, in consequence, familiar with the view given in the illustration. The scene is that presented looking to the northeast from a point near the entrance to the grounds, and is that of the [...]

By admin|2022-12-03T13:53:46-06:00December 3rd, 2022|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Arkansas State Building, Kansas State Building, Lake Michigan, Minnesota State Building, Nebraska State Building, North Dakota State Building, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR, Texas State Building|0 Comments

“A blazing, colorful panorama.” Edith Ogden Harrison remembers the 1893 World’s Fair
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“A blazing, colorful panorama.” Edith Ogden Harrison remembers the 1893 World’s Fair

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“A blazing, colorful panorama.” Edith Ogden Harrison remembers the 1893 World’s Fair

As the daughter-in-law of Chicago Mayor Carter Harrison, Sr., Edith Ogden Harrison had a front-seat view of the 1893 World’s Fair. Born in New Orleans on November 16, 1862, Edith married Carter Harrison, Jr. in 1887. While he walked in his father’s footsteps, serving as mayor of Chicago from 1897–1905 and 1911–1915, Mrs. Harrison was prolific author of children’s fairy tales. Fifty-six years after the close of the Fair (and the tragic assignation of her father-in-law in his home), [...]

By Scott|2022-11-24T08:17:43-06:00November 16th, 2022|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Edith Ogden Harrison|0 Comments

145. Picturesque World’s Fair – West Main Entrance of the Manufactures Building
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145. Picturesque World’s Fair – West Main Entrance of the Manufactures Building

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145. Picturesque World’s Fair – West Main Entrance of the Manufactures Building

WEST MAIN ENTRANCE OF THE MANUFACTURES BUILDING.—Columbia Avenue, the great thoroughfare which extended north and south through the Manufactures Building, was crossed at the center by a similar broad way, and. this interior street where it terminated at the west afforded exit upon a particularly beautiful scene. Across the North Canal and at the entrance to the East Lagoon a bridge extended, over which passed and repassed the throng between the Manufactures and the group of large structures west [...]

By Randy|2022-11-13T09:03:45-06:00November 13th, 2022|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: colonnade, Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, Obelisk, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR, Wooded Island|0 Comments

Singles Night at the 1893 World’s Fair
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Singles Night at the 1893 World’s Fair

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Singles Night at the 1893 World’s Fair

In the era before dating apps, how were singles to meet? One Chicagoan in 1893 proposed a special day on the fairgrounds of the World’s Columbian Exposition for not-so-young-and-still-unattached visitors. The October 21, 1893, issue of the Chicago Inter Ocean carried the following Letter to the Editor, signed “A. LS.” (presumably one of the “autumn lassies” mentioned in the letter?). Although the Fair held many “special days”—for groups ranging from North Dakotans to Nicaraguans, French Engineers to Fishermen—the author’s [...]

By Scott|2022-10-12T12:11:30-05:00October 30th, 2022|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Palace of Fine Arts, W.W. Denslow|0 Comments

When hunger overtakes visitors on the 1893 fairgrounds, they are in danger
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When hunger overtakes visitors on the 1893 fairgrounds, they are in danger

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When hunger overtakes visitors on the 1893 fairgrounds, they are in danger

We’re all feeling the pain of soaring food prices today. They did back in 1893, too. Visitors to the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition were shocked by the cost food on the fairgrounds and frustrated by not being able to find a bill of fare before ordering in the restaurant concessions. The complaints pilled up thick in the first few weeks of the Exposition in May, especially at the White Horse Inn on the south end of the fairgrounds. At [...]

By Scott|2022-10-24T09:25:29-05:00October 25th, 2022|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: food, Wellington Catering Company, White Horse Inn|0 Comments

144. Picturesque World’s Fair – Interior of the Electricity Building
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144. Picturesque World’s Fair – Interior of the Electricity Building

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144. Picturesque World’s Fair – Interior of the Electricity Building

INTERIOR OF THE ELECTRICITY BUILDING.—How the world advances was perhaps better illustrated in the Electricity Building than in any other of the great structures on the grounds. At no previous exposition had there ever been a structure set apart for electrical exhibits and at none could there have been anything like the display here made. The marvelous advance in the use of electricity has been accomplished since Philadelphia and Paris did their best. Science and invention have but lately [...]

By Randy|2023-12-05T09:38:46-06:00October 14th, 2022|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Benjamin Franklin (statue), Electricity Building, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR, Thomas Edison|0 Comments

Feeding the masses on Chicago Day
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Feeding the masses on Chicago Day

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Feeding the masses on Chicago Day

A photograph by Charles Dudley Arnold of the lovely Café de la Marine (Marine Café) designed by architect Henry Ives Cobb. [Image from Arnold, C. D.; Higinbotham, H. D. Official Views of the World’s Columbian Exposition. Press Chicago Photo-gravure Co., 1893.] A sea of humanity poured into the fairgrounds of the World’s Columbian Exposition on Chicago Day (October 9, 1893). The “greatest gathering in history” shattered all previous attendance records with 713,646 paid admissions to the Fair and over three-quarters [...]

By Scott|2022-10-07T08:39:28-05:00October 9th, 2022|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Chicago Day, Wellington Catering Company|0 Comments