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: , |0 Comments
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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: , , |0 Comments
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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: , |0 Comments
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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: , , , , |0 Comments
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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: |0 Comments
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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: , , |0 Comments
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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: |1 Comment
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109. Picturesque World’s Fair – Athletic Pastimes in A Street In Cairo

ATHLETIC PASTIMES IN A STREET IN CAIRO.— They were unquestionably a merry lot who made up the resident population of a Street in Cairo, so full of animal spirits as to often engage in their pastimes, even when there were no visitors in attendance. Naturally, among such people, with such lives as theirs had been, physical prowess was held in high esteem, and the hero of a combat with lance or scimiter was in their eyes a greater man [...]

By Randy|2020-12-06T08:39:19-06:00December 6th, 2020|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: , , |0 Comments
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“Halcyon Days in the Dream City’’ Part 17: “Vale”

Halcyon Days in the Dream City by Mrs. D. C. Taylor Continued from Part 16 The sun has set for the last time on the World's Fair of ’93; for the last time his dying smile has lighted up the fairy courts, the gleaming splendor of statue and portal. Slowly as he sinks to rest, so slowly, solemnly, sinks the forest of fluttering flags and banners; each tall staff soon reaches up in the gathering night bare and stark. [...]

By Scott|2021-04-02T11:18:16-05:00November 30th, 2020|Categories: REPRINTS|0 Comments
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“Halcyon Days in the Dream City’’ Part 16: The Transportation Building

Halcyon Days in the Dream City by Mrs. D. C. Taylor Continued from Part 15 Let us go through the “Golden Gate,” not the gate of the Holy City, but a gate the architect of which must have been dreaming of wondrous Bible imagery, when he designed it.[1] Arch beyond arch, receding, diminishing as they recede, till the last one is about the dimensions of some grand cathedral door, while the noble proportions of the first, are almost awe [...]

By Scott|2021-04-02T11:18:24-05:00November 29th, 2020|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: , , |2 Comments
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“Halcyon Days in the Dream City’’ Part 15: The Palace of Art

Halcyon Days in the Dream City by Mrs. D. C. Taylor Continued from Part 14 What is "Art?" Perhaps we are not qualified to say, but to us, “It” is “Truth.” Not merely truth of detail in drawing; though that is necessary to a finished picture, not merely truth of coloring; though that also, must be had, but truth in its highest sense. When a man stands near to the great heart of all, when he sees the meaning [...]

By Scott|2021-04-02T11:19:43-05:00November 27th, 2020|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: |2 Comments
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“Halcyon Days in the Dream City’’ Part 14: A Dream

Halcyon Days in the Dream City by Mrs. D. C. Taylor Continued from Part 13 We dreamed that we sat upon the sands of the lake shore, and that all about us, unnumbered as these sands, sat and stood a great multitude; thousands upon thousands of people, men, women, and children, from the babe in arms to the maiden and stripling, high and low, rich and poor, all crowding together, all were equal, and over all a great hush [...]

By Scott|2021-04-02T11:21:11-05:00November 25th, 2020|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: , |1 Comment
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“Halcyon Days in the Dream City’’ Part 13: The Illumination

Halcyon Days in the Dream City by Mrs. D. C. Taylor Continued from Part 12 To-day we went to the "Dream City," as Mrs. Candace Wheeler so prettily named the Chicago Exposition,[1] and saw the grand weekly illumination in the evening. At about five o'clock in the afternoon we pressed on with the crowd toward the grand basin. It seemed to be the objective point with all and we were so fortunate as to secure a seat on one [...]

By Scott|2021-04-02T11:21:21-05:00November 23rd, 2020|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: |2 Comments
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“Halcyon Days in the Dream City’’ Part 12: The Infanta

Halcyon Days in the Dream City by Mrs. D. C. Taylor Continued from Part 11 The Infanta of Spain was entertained by the World's Fair officials to-day, June 8, 1893, and we were fortunate in viewing the pageant from a good stand point.[1] It was a perfect day, cool and bright, and smiled on unclouded to its close. We secured some of the handy little camp chairs that are rented on the ground, and entering the south door of [...]

By Scott|2021-04-02T11:21:26-05:00November 21st, 2020|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: |1 Comment
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“Halcyon Days in the Dream City’’ Part 11: The Land of Boodah

Halcyon Days in the Dream City by Mrs. D. C. Taylor Continued from Part 10 A low curved roofed, wide eaved temple, built of foreign woods covered with intricate carving, with deep lace-arched balconies, and blind walls, windowless and dark.[1] The East India Government Building at the 1893 World’s Fair. [Image from The Graphic History of the Fair. Graphic Co., 1894.] As we enter the door a strange odor of mingled incense and sandal wood greets us. We [...]

By Scott|2021-04-02T11:21:31-05:00November 19th, 2020|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: |2 Comments
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“Halcyon Days in the Dream City’’ Part 10: A Cave of the Sea

Halcyon Days in the Dream City by Mrs. D. C. Taylor Continued from Part 9 We roamed through a cave of the sea;[1] on either side rose lofty pillared arches, thickly broidered and crusted with myriad growths of ocean's mysterious depths and of its various tributaries. Shells in all their whorls and spirals and intricate convolutions; half sentient sea anemones, sea ferns and broad leaved kelps, branching lace like and weeping willowy corals, arrowy reeds and floating lily pads, [...]

By Scott|2021-04-02T11:21:35-05:00November 17th, 2020|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: |2 Comments
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“Halcyon Days in the Dream City’’ Part 9: Manufactures Building

Halcyon Days in the Dream City by Mrs. D. C. Taylor Continued from Part 8 Pause, before you enter, and gaze upon this mighty mass of crystal and iron;[1] union of purity and strength, seemingly so frail and airy, and yet in reality so firm and stable. Look at the roof, like a huge translucent wave, at the grand majestic archways towering high above you, with their pictured allegorys [sic] smiling down upon you from their airy heights.[2] Step [...]

By Scott|2021-04-02T11:21:41-05:00November 15th, 2020|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: , , |2 Comments
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“Halcyon Days in the Dream City’’ Part 8: Sights and Sounds of the Midway

Halcyon Days in the Dream City by Mrs. D. C. Taylor Continued from Part 7 Will ever human foot tread such a "way" again? 'Twas as if one had "Aladdin's Lamp" or the wonderful carpet that transported one to any clime with the celerity of thought. One bears the booming of the Dahomian skin drums, and sees the terrible naked Amazons in their hideous dance; sees the Laplander wrapped in his furs and leading his reindeers; sees the Esquimeaux, [...]

By Scott|2022-03-05T11:13:22-06:00November 13th, 2020|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: |1 Comment
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“Halcyon Days in the Dream City’’ Part 7: The Ferris Wheel

Halcyon Days in the Dream City by Mrs. D. C. Taylor Continued from Part 6 In the very centre, midway of “The Midway” stands a high wooden enclosure, and rising above it like a gigantic spider’s-web, the "Ferris Wheel." After the usual “open sesame" we enter the enclosure, and mounting a flight of steps find ourselves upon a high platform with the revolving monster only a few feet distant, but protected by a stout wooden paling. We, with some [...]

By Scott|2021-04-02T11:21:54-05:00November 11th, 2020|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: |1 Comment
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“Halcyon Days in the Dream City’’ Part 6: Temple of Luxor

Halcyon Days in the Dream City by Mrs. D. C. Taylor Continued from Part 5 This fine June morning we will go to Egypt without the tribulations of an ocean voyage and the fatigue of travel. Walk up to this broad gateway, where a swarthy woman wearing a stick bound to the bridge of her nose and between her eyes, with a long black netted veil hanging from below them to her knees, is trying, with many blandishments, to [...]

By Scott|2022-03-05T11:13:12-06:00November 9th, 2020|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: |1 Comment
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