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Remembering Nancy Green, Aunt Jemima, and the 1893 World’s Fair
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Remembering Nancy Green, Aunt Jemima, and the 1893 World’s Fair

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Remembering Nancy Green, Aunt Jemima, and the 1893 World’s Fair

By Scott|2024-01-15T07:42:58-06:00September 9th, 2020|Categories: HISTORY|Tags: Agricultural Building, Aunt Jemima, Nancy Green, Thomas Edison|

Though relatively unknown at the time, one participant in the 1893 World’s Fair later became a famous fixture of food advertising and a part of many people’s kitchens for more than a century. For the past ninety-seven years, the final resting place of the real woman behind the character was an unmarked plot of grass in a cemetery on Chicago’s South Side. A sign welcoming guests to the September 5, 2020, headstone ceremony for Nancy Green. On [...]

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Libraries at the Columbian Exposition
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Libraries at the Columbian Exposition

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Libraries at the Columbian Exposition

By Scott|2024-04-10T16:45:52-05:00April 7th, 2019|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Arkansas State Building, Battleship Illinois, Brazil Building, California State Building, Candace Wheeler, Ceylon Building, Children's Building, Clara Doty Bates, Colorado State Building, Costa Rica Building, Dora Wheeler Keith, East India Building, Florida State Building, Germany Building, Guatemala Building, Hamlin Garland, Idaho State Building, Ignacy Paderewski, Illinois State Building, Indiana State Building, Iowa State Building, Java Village, Kansas State Building, Kentucky State Building, Louisiana State Building, Maine State Building, Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, Mary Hartwell Catherwood, Maryland State Building, Mines and Mining Building, Missouri State Building, Music Hall, Nebraska State Building, New York State Building, North Dakota State Building, Ohio, Pennsylvania State Building, rolling chairs, South Dakota State Building, Swedish Building (Sweden), Territory Building, Texas State Building, Theodore Thomas, Tiffany, Turkish Building (Turkey), U.S. Government Building, Utah State Building, Venezuela Building, Victoria House, Virginia State Building, Washington State Building, Wisconsin State Building, Woman's Building|

“Extremes meet at Chicago.” —librarian Caroline Harwood Garland. The 1893 World’s Fair was full of contrasts: exotic dancing on the Midway and educational exhibits; fountains illuminated by electricity and bibles illuminated by paintings, dynamos and the Dewey decimal system; balloon rides and books. Amidst the Cracker Jack and orange cider was also “food for reflection in the existence of so many libraries.” To celebrate National Library Week, let’s take a look at libraries at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. [...]

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Men Who Will Guard the Fair: Col. Edmund Rice and his Columbian Guard
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Men Who Will Guard the Fair: Col. Edmund Rice and his Columbian Guard

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Men Who Will Guard the Fair: Col. Edmund Rice and his Columbian Guard

By Scott|2018-07-07T09:02:38-05:00July 20th, 2018|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Columbian Guard, Edmund Rice|

Colonel Edmund Rice served as commander of the Columbian Guard, the security and safety force that performed policing and fire-patrol duty inside the grounds of the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago. Erik Larson notes in The Devil in the White City (p. 138) that “unlike conventional police departments, the Guard’s mandate explicitly emphasized the novel idea of preventing crime rather than merely arresting wrongdoers after the fact.” Just prior to taking command of the Columbian Guard in May of [...]

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A Flag for the Fair
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A Flag for the Fair

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A Flag for the Fair

By Scott|2018-07-03T07:54:52-05:00June 14th, 2018|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Board of Lady Managers, Columbian Liberty Bell, Dedication Day, Flag Day, George Simeon Knapp, Liberty Bell, Pennsylvania State Building, Woman's Building, World's Columbian Exposition Illustrated|

In 1893, the U.S. flag sported forty-four stars for the forty-four states of the union. Flag Day marks the anniversary of adoption of the United States flag on June 14, 1777. An official holiday (though not a federal holiday) since 1946, Flag Day commemorations emerged in the 1880s. Apparently there were no Flag Day observances at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition on June 14, though. In honor of "Old Glory," we offer this article from the November [...]

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PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR – A Group of State Buildings (p. 45)
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PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR – A Group of State Buildings (p. 45)

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PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR – A Group of State Buildings (p. 45)

By Randy|2018-04-11T12:01:07-05:00April 11th, 2018|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Florida State Building, Kansas State Building, Kentucky State Building, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR, State Buildings|

PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR. AN ELABORATE COLLECTION OF COLORED VIEWS Page 45 – A GROUP OF STATE BUILDINGS A GROUP OF STATE BUILDINGS.—The State Buildings, though dwarfed by the monster structures south of them, made a city by themselves in the north and northwest parts of the Exhibition grounds, and afforded varying and beautiful types of architecture in their exteriors, while among their interior displays were many rarely surpassed in interest- The view above presented is from an elevated point [...]

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