Need a new search?

If you didn't find what you were looking for, try a new search!

101. Picturesque World’s Fair – Nizaha, A Woman of Nazareth

By |2020-06-28T10:56:09-05:00June 28th, 2020|Categories: REPRINTS, Uncategorized|Tags: , |

NIZAHA, A WOMAN OF NAZARETH.— Hardly what one would expect in appearance was Nizaha, a woman with the Bedouins, who came from the locality reverentially considered by all the Christian world as the birthplace of Christ. It will be observed that in sitting for her photograph Nizaha did not forget her hands and handkerchief and that, with the left hand especially, as it is spread out against her side, a somewhat startling effect is produced. The rings are shown [...]

100. Picturesque World’s Fair – Arabian Horses and Riders

By |2020-10-27T10:19:36-05:00May 6th, 2020|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: , , |

ARABIAN HORSES AND RIDERS.—Ottoman's Arab camp, or the "Wild East Show' as it was finally called, was one of the World's Fair enterprises which, with various striking features, was yet financially unsuccessful. The Bedouins, with their families and equipments, were brought to Chicago by a private company, and the original intention of the promoters of the enterprise was to exhibit them in a park near the Exposition, but this design was, for some reason, impossible of execution, and the [...]

98. Picturesque World’s Fair – Kaleife and his Dromedary

By |2020-10-27T10:20:32-05:00April 9th, 2020|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: , , , |

KALEIFE AND HIS DROMEDARY.—The Bedouin and the dromedary, "the ship of the desert," were very much in evidence at the Ottoman's Arab camp, or "Wild East Show ' The "ship" when under full sail around the encampment was gorgeously decorated, and his driver was not less brightly appareled. Why in a region as warm as the desert is supposed to be so much covering should be deemed a necessity is hard to say, but on all state occasions both [...]

Echoes of the White City Part 3: “Fourteen Villages and a Jail”

By |2022-12-10T10:10:12-06:00November 20th, 2019|Categories: HISTORY|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Entering Battery D Armory, visitors to “Echoes of the White City” faced a replica in miniature of one of the greatest attractions of the 1893 World’s Fair

Echoes of the White City Part 1: Chicago Society’s 1894 Charity Bazaar

By |2023-10-20T21:26:27-05:00November 13th, 2019|Categories: HISTORY|Tags: |

When the Midway reopened in 1894, the Ferris Wheel had only four passenger cars, the girls in the Congress of Beauty had to shave their faces, and the famous “belly dance” was performed by a male window decorator from Marshall Field’s.As carriages pulled up along Michigan Avenue, Chicago’s society folk were greeted by a fat, little man wearing “trousers that might have been intended for twin balloons,” a fez, and shoes with turned-up toes. Standing on a red platform, he [...]

Go to Top