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“It filled me with a great wonder and excitement” Ignacy Paderewski Remembers the 1893 World’s Fair
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“It filled me with a great wonder and excitement” Ignacy Paderewski Remembers the 1893 World’s Fair

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“It filled me with a great wonder and excitement” Ignacy Paderewski Remembers the 1893 World’s Fair

Who possessed enough star power to follow President Grover Cleveland after he triumphantly opened the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago on May 1, 1893? That honor went to the most famous musician of the time—twenty-two-year-old Polish pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski, who commanded the stage in Music Hall the next night. His finesse with the ivory keys, his unwieldy mass of luxuriant red hair, and his stage magnetism earned him great celebrity, a devoted and swooning audience, and more than [...]

By Scott|2022-12-10T09:57:31-06:00September 24th, 2022|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Ignacy Paderewski, Music Hall|0 Comments

143. Picturesque World’s Fair – Under the Government Building Dome
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143. Picturesque World’s Fair – Under the Government Building Dome

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143. Picturesque World’s Fair – Under the Government Building Dome

Whatever might have been thought of the beauties of the United States Government Building as a whole, there was but one opinion as to the attraction of one scene its interior presented, that being directly underneath the dome of the great structure, and having for its single unique exhibit a house made within the trunk of one of California's monster trees. The section of trunk shown was thirty feet long and twenty-three feet across, and was divided laterally into [...]

By Randy|2023-12-05T09:39:10-06:00September 19th, 2022|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: California State Building, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR, U.S. Government Building|0 Comments

This Way to the Egress of the Midway Plaisance
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This Way to the Egress of the Midway Plaisance

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This Way to the Egress of the Midway Plaisance

Had he lived to see it, many aspects of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition would have delighted P. T. Barnum. Visitors to the World’s Fair in Chicago could encounter various displays of “the biggest”—a golden colossus, a mammoth squash, a gigantic cactus, a huge walk-in flour barrel, massive chocolate statues, and an immense rotating wheel … to name but a few. A rather pedestrian object on the Midway Plaisance led to a funny scene that likely would have amused [...]

By Scott|2023-11-28T09:01:39-06:00August 28th, 2022|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Midway Plaisance, P. T. Barnum, Teresa Dean|0 Comments

Jackson Park oak trees uprooted and destroyed (redux)
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Jackson Park oak trees uprooted and destroyed (redux)

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Jackson Park oak trees uprooted and destroyed (redux)

Some Chicago residents are expressing outrage about the number of mature trees being cut down in Jackson Park due to construction of the Obama Presidential Center (and possibly more for coming down for a planned golf course). More people than you think, perhaps, will be sorry that it has been destroyed. Many years ago, some Chicagoan were distressed by all the trees being chopped down in Jackson Park in order to construct the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition fairgrounds. This [...]

By Scott|2022-12-10T09:57:14-06:00August 26th, 2022|Categories: NEWS, REPRINTS|Tags: Jackson Park, Obama Presidential Center|0 Comments

Baggage for 1893 World’s Fair Visitors
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Baggage for 1893 World’s Fair Visitors

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Baggage for 1893 World’s Fair Visitors

In our modern era of frustrating travel, here is a reminder that the more things change the more they stay the same. This complicated advice for train travelers heading to the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago comes from April 1893 issue of The Station Agent: “General Passenger Agent De Haven of the Chicago & West Michigan and Detroit, Lansing & Northern railroads has issued a poster to all agents on this subject, which is as well adapted to [...]

By Scott|2022-08-23T08:43:11-05:00August 25th, 2022|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: visitors|0 Comments

Daniel Burnham on Architecture and “The Intellectual Reflex of the Exposition”
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Daniel Burnham on Architecture and “The Intellectual Reflex of the Exposition”

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Daniel Burnham on Architecture and “The Intellectual Reflex of the Exposition”

What influence would the White City erected for the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago likely have on the development of American architecture in the years to come? Pondering that question, architectural critic Montgomery Schuyler noted that Daniel Burnham, Director of Works for the Columbian Exposition, offered a vision that was able to “crystallize into a lucid and specific form a general hazy expectation.” Burnham’s made his comments in this passage for a Chicago newspaper, and Schuyler reprinted them in [...]

By Scott|2022-08-14T06:57:13-05:00August 14th, 2022|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Daniel Burnham, Louis Sullivan|0 Comments

142. Picturesque World’s Fair – The Germania Fountain
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142. Picturesque World’s Fair – The Germania Fountain

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142. Picturesque World’s Fair – The Germania Fountain

THE GERMANIA FOUNTAIN.—Just to the north of the German Building, and showing charmingly against a background of trees which intervened between it and structures to the west, was what was known as the Germania Fountain, a work of art forming part of the German showing. Germania, standing upon a supported globe, held aloft a lamp, while typical additional figures made an effective grouping. . The globe was upheld by four female figures seated upon a lavishly decorated pedestal, which [...]

By Randy|2022-08-11T05:36:23-05:00August 11th, 2022|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: German exhibit, Germany, Germany Building, Glory of Germania, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR|0 Comments

141. Picturesque World’s Fair – Proctor’s Noted Statue of “The Indian”
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141. Picturesque World’s Fair – Proctor’s Noted Statue of “The Indian”

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141. Picturesque World’s Fair – Proctor’s Noted Statue of “The Indian”

PROCTOR'S NOTED STATUE OF "THE INDIAN." — The most notable adornments of the West Lagoon were Proctor's "Indian" and "Cowboy," which pieces of statuary stood overlooking the lagoon from points near the Transportation Building. It was certainly fortunate that the work of producing the statuary around the main basin and lagoons was left to artists as thoroughly American in choice of theme and manner of treatment as Edward Kemeys and A. Phimister Proctor. By neither of them was anything [...]

By Randy|2022-07-10T09:12:33-05:00July 10th, 2022|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Alexander Phimister Proctor, Edward Kemeys, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR, Transportation Building|0 Comments

140. Picturesque World’s Fair – Interior of the India Building
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140. Picturesque World’s Fair – Interior of the India Building

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140. Picturesque World’s Fair – Interior of the India Building

INTERIOR OF THE INDIA BUILDING.— So great was the display of articles of sandal-wood in the interior of the India Building that the fragrance of the various objects always filled the air and added to the oriental flavor of the scene and the occasion, and very little of the walls could be seen, so profuse was the display of all kinds of East India goods. At one end of the single large room, lighted only from above, was an [...]

By Randy|2022-06-19T18:13:36-05:00June 19th, 2022|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: East India Building, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR|0 Comments

139. Picturesque World’s Fair – The Pennsylvania
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139. Picturesque World’s Fair – The Pennsylvania

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139. Picturesque World’s Fair – The Pennsylvania

THE PENNSYLVANIA BUILDING.—Among the most conspicuous of the State Buildings in size and cost, that of Pennsylvania possessed an added interest because its front was an exact reproduction of that of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, and because it contained the famous Liberty Bell. The edifice was in the Colonial style, of rectangular form, two stories in height, and occupied a ground space one hundred and ten by one hundred and sixty-six feet in area. Piazzas twenty feet wide surrounded [...]

By Randy|2022-05-31T06:08:30-05:00May 31st, 2022|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Benjamin Franklin (statue), Liberty Bell, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR|0 Comments