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the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition


NEW 1893 WORLD’S FAIR PRODUCTS

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Worldโ€™s Fair Merch from the Driehaus Museum

While visiting โ€œEternal Light: The Sacred Stained-Glass Windows of Louis Comfort Tiffanyโ€ at the Driehaus Museum, we spotted some 1893 Worldโ€™s Fair products in the third-floor gift shop. A few came home with us. The iconic Ferris Wheel is featured on a T-shirt ($24) that comes in two colors, an enamel pin ($10) and a pair of earrings. Some Oolong Tea ($9.99) from the Oliver Pluff & Co. comes [...]

By |February 10th, 2020|Categories: PRODUCTS|Tags: |2 Comments

โ€œHaunts of the White Cityโ€ Offers a Few Worldโ€™s Fair Ghost Stories

Haunts of the White City: Ghost Stories From the World's Fair, the Great Fire, and Victorian Chicago by Ursula Bielski. History Press, 2019. ISBN: 9781467139656. Softcover, 272 pages. $21.99. Even those of us who donโ€™t believe in ghosts can enjoy a good ghost story. And Chicago is full of them. Ursula Bielski collects many of the more famous spectral tales, and few lesser-known phantoms, in Haunts of the White [...]

By |February 1st, 2020|Categories: PRODUCTS, RESEARCH|Tags: , |0 Comments

โ€œChicago’s Lollapalooza Days: 1893-1934โ€ Explores the Windy Cityโ€™s Raucous Roots

Chicago's Lollapalooza Days: 1893-1934 by Jim Edwards. Arcadia Publishing, 2019. ISBN: 9781467103701. Softcover, 128 pages. $21.99. Partying ruled in the years between Chicagoโ€™s two World's Fairs, writes historian Jim Edwards in his introduction to Chicago's Lollapalooza Days: 1893-1934. The collection of 169 annotated images form a loose theme around the titular โ€œlollapaloozaโ€ (a ball in the notorious First Ward, not a modern music festival). Edwards curates a visual review [...]

Seasonโ€™s Readings: Worldโ€™s Columbian Exposition Books from 2019

2019 brought several additions to the Worldโ€™s Columbian Exposition bookshelf.

All the World is Beer

A HAPPY PROSPECT. Sing a song of wondrous things A city full of sights: Common folks and queens and kings Enjoying the delights. When the fair is opened, And all the world is here, We'll have a jolly time throughout the Exposition year. (from The Illustrated Worldโ€™s Fair, May 1892) For a jolly time throughout the current year, consider a taste of โ€œAll the World is Here,โ€ a new [...]

By |August 21st, 2019|Categories: NEWS, PRODUCTS|Tags: , , |1 Comment

Columbian Exposition Books from 2018

The 125th anniversary year of the Worldโ€™s Columbian Exposition offered scholarship, images, and fiction relating to the Worldโ€™s Fair in several new publications in 2018. Pioneers of Promotion: How Press Agents for Buffalo Bill, P. T. Barnum, and the Worldโ€™s Columbian Exposition Created Modern Marketing by Joe Dobrow. University of Oklahoma Press. Communications professional and business history writer Joe Dobrow traces the origins of modern American marketing by shining [...]

Spirit of the 1893 Worldโ€™s Fair in Journeyman Distilleryโ€™s new Field Gin

Raise your glass to the 1893 Worldโ€™s Fair with a new spirit that delivers tastes and aromas from the Columbian Exposition's Agricultural and Horticultural buildings. Journeyman Distillery of Three Oaks, Michigan, has partnered the Field Museum in Chicago to celebrate the museum's 125th anniversary by creating Field Gin, a new small-batch spirit released in July 2018 and made using botanicals displayed at the World's Columbian Exposition. Field Gin [...]

By |July 20th, 2018|Categories: PRODUCTS|Tags: , , |1 Comment

Icons of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition notecards

The Museum of Science and Industry (MSI) in Chicago held their โ€œRevel in the White Cityโ€ virtual simulation at the museum on May 19 and May 20 to a packed auditorium. It was spectacular. Making the event even more festive were a set of posters designed by Chicago artist David Lee Csicsko, titled โ€œIcons of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.โ€ Greeting cards of the set of eight images were [...]

Souvenir Music from the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893

March, waltz, polka, and hoochie koochie your way back to the 1893 Worldโ€™s Fair with Souvenir Music from the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, a new recording of vintage sheet music from Lake Forest College Press. Donald C. Meyer, Professor of Music at Lake Forest College, has assembled a fascinating collection of 18 pieces of music written for or about the Columbian Exposition. A trio of musicians (pianist Chris [...]

1893 World’s Fair trading cards from Topps

Sports card collectors know the name Topps well. The company that has produced countless baseball cards and other sports trading cards, often packaged with a stick of chewing gum, also releases non-sports trading cards. One of their recent "vintage" collector's card lines is an "Allen & Ginter" series, named after the Virginia company that produced the first cigarette trading cards. Topps three Columbian Exposition trading cards from 2017 [...]

By |October 27th, 2017|Categories: PRODUCTS|Tags: , , , |0 Comments
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