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Dec. 2, 2022 – Feb. 1, 2023: A Columbian Exposition quilt on display (Woodland, CA)
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Dec. 2, 2022 – Feb. 1, 2023: A Columbian Exposition quilt on display (Woodland, CA)

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Dec. 2, 2022 – Feb. 1, 2023: A Columbian Exposition quilt on display (Woodland, CA)

By Scott|2022-12-04T09:04:02-06:00December 4th, 2022|Categories: EXHIBITS (current), NEWS, Uncategorized|Tags: Horticultural Building, Transportation Building|

“Expressions in Cloth,” a new exhibition at YoloArts’ Gallery 625 in Woodland, California, includes a beautiful quilt by artist Sherry Werum that features images inspired by the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. World's Fair enthusiasts might see Louis Sullivan's iconic Golden Door entrance to the Transporation Building or William Le Baron Jenney's stunning glass dome of the Horticultural Building among Werum's intricate design. “Expressions in Cloth” runs from December 2, 2022, to February 1, 2023, at Gallery 625 [...]

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“It filled me with a great wonder and excitement” Ignacy Paderewski Remembers the 1893 World’s Fair
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“It filled me with a great wonder and excitement” Ignacy Paderewski Remembers the 1893 World’s Fair

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“It filled me with a great wonder and excitement” Ignacy Paderewski Remembers the 1893 World’s Fair

By Scott|2022-12-10T09:57:31-06:00September 24th, 2022|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Ignacy Paderewski, Music Hall|

Who possessed enough star power to follow President Grover Cleveland after he triumphantly opened the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago on May 1, 1893? That honor went to the most famous musician of the time—twenty-two-year-old Polish pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski, who commanded the stage in Music Hall the next night. His finesse with the ivory keys, his unwieldy mass of luxuriant red hair, and his stage magnetism earned him great celebrity, a devoted and swooning audience, and more than [...]

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143. Picturesque World’s Fair – Under the Government Building Dome
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143. Picturesque World’s Fair – Under the Government Building Dome

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143. Picturesque World’s Fair – Under the Government Building Dome

By Randy|2023-12-05T09:39:10-06:00September 19th, 2022|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: California State Building, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR, U.S. Government Building|

Whatever might have been thought of the beauties of the United States Government Building as a whole, there was but one opinion as to the attraction of one scene its interior presented, that being directly underneath the dome of the great structure, and having for its single unique exhibit a house made within the trunk of one of California's monster trees. The section of trunk shown was thirty feet long and twenty-three feet across, and was divided laterally into [...]

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137. Picturesque World’s Fair – North and West from the Government Building
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137. Picturesque World’s Fair – North and West from the Government Building

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137. Picturesque World’s Fair – North and West from the Government Building

By Randy|2022-04-24T13:28:09-05:00April 24th, 2022|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Brazil Building, Café de la Marine, California State Building, Fisheries Building, Guatemala Building, Illinois State Building, Merchant Tailors' Building, Michigan State Building, New York State Building, Ohio State Building, Palace of Fine Arts, Pennsylvania State Building, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR, Spectatorium, Swedish Building (Sweden), U.S. Government Building, Venezuela Building, Washington State Building, Wooded Island|

NORTH AND WEST FROM THE GOVERNMENT BUILDING.—From the dome of the Government Building the prospect north and west afforded as much variety as could be had from any point of observation of the Fair Grounds, since in other directions the view was either much shorter or was cut off by the huge department structures. The illustration shows the Fisheries in the foreground, the details of the south façade of the main building outlined very clearly at such short distance. [...]

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State Buildings

By Scott|2022-10-02T10:14:17-05:00April 13th, 2022|

The State Buildings The state buildings stood in a sweeping crescent across the northern end of the Columbian Exposition fairgrounds. Thirty-six states and one group of territories each sponsored a state building at the 1893 World's Fair. (The only states in 1893 that did not erect a building were Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Nevada, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Wyoming.) These architecturally diverse structures often were built of materials native to that state, and several were replicas of [...]

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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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Changes Coming to Midway Plaisance
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Changes Coming to Midway Plaisance

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Changes Coming to Midway Plaisance

By Scott|2022-04-01T15:30:11-05:00April 3rd, 2022|Categories: NEWS|Tags: Midway Plaisance, Obama Presidential Center|

“Passing under the Stony Island viaduct, we are in a new world, which, while it does not pretend to instruct, still conveys quite an amount of real knowledge, though carefully enshrouded in a sugarcoating of amusement.” —“The World's Columbian Exposition, a View from the Ferris Wheel” Scientific American September 9, 1893, pp. 169 70. The Midway Plaisance, a six hundred-foot wide by one-mile-long strip of land connecting Jackson Park on the east to Washington Park on the west, served [...]

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Timeline

By Scott|2024-09-23T08:16:25-05:00March 13th, 2022|

Timeline Events and Dates of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago The Columbian Exposition (May 1-Oct. 30, 1893) May 1893 Tuesday, May 1 (Opening Day) Tuesday, May 8 (Catholic Knights of America Day) Wednesday, May 17 (Norway Day) Tuesday, May 23 Wednesday, May 24 (Maine Day) Thursday, May 25 Friday, May 26 Saturday, May 27 Sunday, May 28 Monday, May 29 Tuesday, May 30 (Decoration Day) June 1893 Monday, June 5 (Denmark Day) Thursday, [...]

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125. Picturesque World’s Fair – Arab and Bedouin Horsemen
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125. Picturesque World’s Fair – Arab and Bedouin Horsemen

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125. Picturesque World’s Fair – Arab and Bedouin Horsemen

By Randy|2021-09-06T03:35:59-05:00September 6th, 2021|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Bedouin Camp-Wild East Show, Ottoman's Arab Camp, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR, Wild-East Show|

ARAB AND BEDOUIN HORSEMEN.—Just what the distinction was between Arabs and Bedouins, visitors to the Wild East Show were puzzled to determine. Those of them who had ever paid attention to the terms counted "Arab " as a general description, including all the desert dwellers, and " Bedouin " as something more definite, applying to a single tribe or nation. They left the Wild East Show with just as much and no more information on the subject than they [...]

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The Idaho State Building at the 1893 World’s Fair
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The Idaho State Building at the 1893 World’s Fair

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The Idaho State Building at the 1893 World’s Fair

By Scott|2021-05-26T18:17:26-05:00May 27th, 2021|Categories: NEWS|Tags: Idaho State Building|

The Idaho Building in downtown Boise is a “descendant” of several other Idaho buildings stretching back to the 1893 World’s Fair. Idaho Press history columnist Rick Just tells this story in “A little slice of history: The downtown Boise buildings story”, published on May 22, 2021. The Idaho State Building at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. [Image from Johnson, Rossiter A History of the World's Columbian Exposition Volume 4 - Congresses. D. Appleton and Co., 1898.] Having just [...]

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