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the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition


NEW 1893 WORLD’S FAIR PRODUCTS

If you know of any interesting new products relating to the Columbian Exposition, please contact us at worldsfairchicago1893@gmail.com.

Seasonโ€™s Readings: 2022 Books about the Worldโ€™s Columbian Exposition

2022 brought several additions to the Worldโ€™s Columbian Exposition bookshelf.

Conrad Seipp Columbia Bock is Back from 1893 Worldโ€™s Fair

The 1893 Worldโ€™s Fair bar is stocked with a new brew. Columbia Bock from Chicago-based Conrad Seipp Brewing joins Revolution Brewingโ€™s โ€œFist Cityโ€ beer, Temperance Beer Companyโ€™s โ€œAll the World is Hereโ€ beer, Virtue Ciderโ€™s Southcider, Journeyman Distilleryโ€™s Field Gin, and the long line of Columbian Exposition themed products from Few Spirits. Columbia Bock from Chicago-based Conrad Seipp Brewing. The German-style lager is an attempt to recreate [...]

By |March 25th, 2021|Categories: PRODUCTS|Tags: |0 Comments

Some New 1893 Worldโ€™s Fair Products

If you are shopping for a gift to give a Columbian Exposition enthusiast or just want to treat yourself to a little something during the holiday season, check on these products relating to the 1893 Worldโ€™s Fair. Note: We provide this announcement of new products without any compensation from vendors. Prices and availability subject to change. Tedโ€™s vintage art offers a super-high quality, digitally restored print of a โ€œVintage [...]

By |December 17th, 2020|Categories: PRODUCTS|0 Comments

In-cider Information on a Columbian Exposition Beverage

The Columbian Exposition adult beverage shelf has a new addition. Reach past those cans of โ€œFist Cityโ€ and โ€œAll the World is Hereโ€ beer, Field Gin, and the long line of products from Few Spirits and grab a can of Virtue Ciderโ€™s new Southcider. Crafted in their cider houses in Fennville, Michigan, using local apples and blended with botanicals, Southcider--along with its companion beverage Northcider--honors Chicagoโ€™s famous crosstown baseball [...]

By |August 17th, 2020|Categories: PRODUCTS|Tags: |0 Comments

1893 Chicago Midway Playing Cards & History of the Worldโ€™s Fair Card Deck

1893 Chicago Midway Playing Cards & History of the Worldโ€™s Fair Card Deck by Stuart Van Leer Bradley. Railway Station Press, 2020. ISBN: 9781951299057. Softcover, 40 pages. $15.00. This companion book to the recently produced set of Midway Playing Cards contains a summary of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the Midway Plaisance, technical notes about the set of Barnhart Brothers & Spindler (BB&S) type foundry printers ornaments, [...]

By |July 18th, 2020|Categories: PRODUCTS, RESEARCH|Tags: |0 Comments

โ€œThe Last Voyage of the Whaling Bark Progressโ€ Raises Story of a Forgotten Ship from the 1893 Worldโ€™s Fair

The Last Voyage of the Whaling Bark Progress: New Bedford, Chicago and the Twilight of an Industry by Daniel Gifford. McFarland Press, 2020. ISBN: 9781476682150. Softcover, 204 pages. $45.00. Along the eastern edge of the 1893 Worldโ€™s Columbian Exposition were four different exhibits of sea craft, each with a unique story to share. The reproductions of the Spanish Caravelsโ€”the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Mariaโ€”served as a fitting commemoration of [...]

By |June 15th, 2020|Categories: NEWS, PRODUCTS, RESEARCH|Tags: |0 Comments
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