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The Fair as a Spectacle, Part 3: An Enormous Whirligig of Pleasure
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The Fair as a Spectacle, Part 3: An Enormous Whirligig of Pleasure

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The Fair as a Spectacle, Part 3: An Enormous Whirligig of Pleasure

By Scott|2023-07-03T06:41:30-05:00July 2nd, 2023|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Austrian Village (Old Vienna), Charles Mulford Robinson, Midway Plaisance, Street in Cairo, Woman's Building|

Continued from Part 2 [Note: This text includes names and descriptions now considered culturally disparaging. Please see our statement on “Potentially Offensive Text and Images.”] THE FAIR AS A SPECTACLE. How it seemed to a visitor—Strolling and dreaming by day and by night. By Charles Mulford Robinson Part 3: An Enormous Whirligig of Pleasure The entrance to the Plaisance was directly beyond this building. Serious purposed womanhood, as personified by the structure, stood before the Plaisance, blocking the way [...]

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The Making of the White City (Part 2)
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The Making of the White City (Part 2)

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The Making of the White City (Part 2)

By Scott|2023-02-12T10:58:10-06:00February 13th, 2023|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Agricultural Building, Daniel Burnham, Electricity Building, Fisheries Building, Francis Millet, Frederick Law Olmsted, Golden Door, Henry Codman, Henry Ives Cobb, Horticultural Building, Illinois State Building, illumination, Jenny, Karl Bitter, lagoon, Machinery Hall, Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, Mines and Mining Building, Palace of Fine Arts, Peabody & Stearns, Philip Martiny, Richard Hunt, Solon S. Beman, staff, Statue of the Republic, telephone, U.S. Government Building, Van Brunt & Howe, William Le Baron Jenney, Woman's Building|

[Continued from Part 1] A great stage decked with ambitious scenery Perhaps the first thing that would strike a stranger entering the World’s Fair grounds in the summer of 1892 would be the silence of the place, the next the almost theatrical unreality of the impression by the sight of an assemblage of buildings so startlingly out of the common in size and form. When I speak of the silence, I mean the effect of silence. There are seven [...]

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The Making of the White City (Part 1)
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The Making of the White City (Part 1)

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The Making of the White City (Part 1)

By Scott|2024-09-13T13:11:20-05:00February 12th, 2023|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Auditorium, Frederick Law Olmsted, Lincoln Park, New York|

Few essays about the fairgrounds for the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition better capture the creative energy of its construction than H. C. Bunner’s “The Making of the White City.” The American novelist, journalist, and poet Henry Cuyler Bunner (1855–1896) visited Jackson Park in Chicago during the summer of 1892. There he witnessed laborers assembling the great exhibit halls, hundreds of smaller structures, and magnificent landscaping in advance of the October 1892 Dedication Day ceremony. While Bunner employs an ornate [...]

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“A blazing, colorful panorama.” Edith Ogden Harrison remembers the 1893 World’s Fair
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“A blazing, colorful panorama.” Edith Ogden Harrison remembers the 1893 World’s Fair

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“A blazing, colorful panorama.” Edith Ogden Harrison remembers the 1893 World’s Fair

By Scott|2022-11-24T08:17:43-06:00November 16th, 2022|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Edith Ogden Harrison|

As the daughter-in-law of Chicago Mayor Carter Harrison, Sr., Edith Ogden Harrison had a front-seat view of the 1893 World’s Fair. Born in New Orleans on November 16, 1862, Edith married Carter Harrison, Jr. in 1887. While he walked in his father’s footsteps, serving as mayor of Chicago from 1897–1905 and 1911–1915, Mrs. Harrison was prolific author of children’s fairy tales. Fifty-six years after the close of the Fair (and the tragic assignation of her father-in-law in his home), [...]

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“A Medley of the Midway Plaisance” by A. B. Ward
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“A Medley of the Midway Plaisance” by A. B. Ward

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“A Medley of the Midway Plaisance” by A. B. Ward

By Scott|2022-10-07T08:01:02-05:00October 7th, 2022|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Captive Balloon, Street in Cairo, Temple of Luxor|

The short story reprinted below is a romance set on the Midway Plaisance of the 1893 World’s Fair. Writing as “A. B. Ward,” Mrs. Alice Ward Bailey (1857–1922) was a prolific author of fiction around the turn of the twentieth century. The mawkish prose and bumpy pacing in this story may explain why the author is essentially forgotten today. Still, her dramatic sketch offers an intimate peek into the lives of fictional inhabitants of the Midway and invites us [...]

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The Plaster Lighting Catcher of the 1893 World’s Fair: Carl Rohl-Smith’s Benjamin Franklin statue (Part 2)
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The Plaster Lighting Catcher of the 1893 World’s Fair: Carl Rohl-Smith’s Benjamin Franklin statue (Part 2)

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The Plaster Lighting Catcher of the 1893 World’s Fair: Carl Rohl-Smith’s Benjamin Franklin statue (Part 2)

By Scott|2022-09-04T09:03:18-05:00September 4th, 2022|Categories: HISTORY|Tags: Benjamin Franklin (statue), Carl Rohl-Smith, Electricity Building, George Pullman, John J. Boyle, Richard Henry Park, Solon S. Beman, Theodore Roosevelt|

[Part 1 of this article describes the commission and construction of Carl Rohl-Smith’s statue of Benjamin Franklin for the Electricity Building at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition.] “I begin to be almost sorry I was born so soon, since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known one hundred years hence.” —Benjamin Franklin, July 27, 1783 The capital of the world vanished like a sweet dream after the fairgrounds of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in [...]

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People

By Scott|2024-03-08T09:12:46-06:00April 7th, 2022|

Notable People at the 1893 World’s Fair Among the millions of people attending the Columbian Exposition were countless famous or soon-to-be famous names. The list below is an attempt at counting. What constitutes famous? Having a Wikipedia page today is the reasonable requirement used to assemble most entries in this list. Posts for some people are provided as links in their name. A person’s role in the Exposition is identied in brackets: [A] = artists (architects, painters, sculptors, musicians) [...]

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Ballyhoo on the Midway Plaisance
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Ballyhoo on the Midway Plaisance

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Ballyhoo on the Midway Plaisance

By Scott|2023-12-20T14:25:32-06:00May 18th, 2021|Categories: HISTORY|Tags: fakirs, Midway Plaisance, Ostrich Farm, Turkish Village|

“All new words are created because a new sound is needed to voice an idea, usually also new.” —Charles Wolverton The word ballyhoo, according to the renowned and authoritative Oxford English Dictionary (OED), means a “a showman’s touting speech, or a performance advertising a show.” It can be used as a mass noun to mean “bombastic nonsense; extravagant or brash publicity; noisy fuss.” Though this “carnival” usage has uncertain origins, the OED and other etymology sources cite the first [...]

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“Farthest North”: An Arctic Tableau at the 1893 World’s Fair
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“Farthest North”: An Arctic Tableau at the 1893 World’s Fair

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“Farthest North”: An Arctic Tableau at the 1893 World’s Fair

By Scott|2021-05-08T14:38:44-05:00March 22nd, 2021|Categories: HISTORY|Tags: U.S. Government Building|

Crowds gather at the 1893 World's Fair to see a panorama depicting the Greely Expedition to the North Pole. [Image from the Illustrated American World's Fair Special Issue, 1893.] Seventy five years ago today, arctic explorer David L. Brainard (1856–1946) died at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington D.C. He was the last survivor of the famous Lady Franklin Bay Expedition of 1881–84 under the command of Lieutenant Adolphus W. Greely (1844–1935), whose final resting place is close [...]

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“Halcyon Days in the Dream City’’ Part 8: Sights and Sounds of the Midway
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“Halcyon Days in the Dream City’’ Part 8: Sights and Sounds of the Midway

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“Halcyon Days in the Dream City’’ Part 8: Sights and Sounds of the Midway

By Scott|2022-03-05T11:13:22-06:00November 13th, 2020|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Midway Plaisance|

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, [...]

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