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Which of the 6 Everyday Inventions Debuted at 1893 World’s Fair?
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Which of the 6 Everyday Inventions Debuted at 1893 World’s Fair?

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Which of the 6 Everyday Inventions Debuted at 1893 World’s Fair?

By Scott|2023-12-05T15:44:48-06:00January 16th, 2022|Categories: NEWS|Tags: Josephine Cochrane, Woman's Building|

Do you know which of these “6 Everyday Inventions That Debuted at World's Fairs," from a list assembled by History.com, are from the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition? 1. telephone 2. zipper 3. dishwasher 4. electrical plug and socket 5. television 6. touchscreens Josephine Cochrane (1839–1913) of Shelbyville, IL, is credited with inventing the dishwashing machine, which she exhibited in the Inventions Room of the Woman’s Building. Whitcomb L. Judson is widely recognized as the inventor of the zipper, which [...]

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132. Picturesque World’s Fair – The Columbian Obelisk
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132. Picturesque World’s Fair – The Columbian Obelisk

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132. Picturesque World’s Fair – The Columbian Obelisk

By Randy|2022-01-08T17:22:45-06:00January 8th, 2022|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Agricultural Building, Machinery Hall, Obelisk, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR, South Canal, South Colonnade|

THE COLUMBIAN OBELISK.- The Obelisk, which was the prominent object at the southern end of the South Canal, connected the wonderful civilization the World's Fair represented with the hardly less wonderful civilization of thousands of years ago. Ancient Egypt furnished, in a manner, her contribution to the architecture of the Columbian Exposition, the Obelisk, from a distance, reminding the observer of one of the " Cleopatra's Needles," of which, by the way, an exact reproduction was among the attractions [...]

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Death of the Republic: The fiery end to the golden colossus of the 1893 World’s Fair
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Death of the Republic: The fiery end to the golden colossus of the 1893 World’s Fair

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Death of the Republic: The fiery end to the golden colossus of the 1893 World’s Fair

By Scott|2022-12-09T11:20:09-06:00August 28th, 2021|Categories: HISTORY|Tags: Court of Honor, Daniel Chester French, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, Grand Basin, Statue of the Republic|

They toppled the Republic at dawn on August 28, 1896. As the first rays of the sun spread across Lake Michigan and into Jackson Park, a funeral pyre lit inside the colossus began to spread up the structure. A flash of light soon appeared in her raised left arm. On a pedestal in the lagoon, the ghostly goddess stood with impassive dignity as muffled cracking within her heralded impending doom. A halo of yellow light formed about her head, [...]

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122. Picturesque World’s Fair – South Front of the Manufactures Building
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122. Picturesque World’s Fair – South Front of the Manufactures Building

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122. Picturesque World’s Fair – South Front of the Manufactures Building

By Randy|2021-07-07T05:36:10-05:00July 7th, 2021|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Columbian Fountain, Court of Honor, Grand Basin, Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR, Richard Hunt|

SOUTH FRONT OF THE MANUFACTURES BUILDING.—While not its greatest frontage, the south end of the Manufactures Building was most familiar to Exposition visitors, facing as it did to the Court of Honor and affording between it and the Grand Basin a vantage point for seeing the fountains at play and the illumination of the buildings at night. The illustration above shows this frontage as well as that on the west, adjacent to the canal and the East Lagoon. The [...]

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Feral Feline Fights for Food on the Fairgrounds
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Feral Feline Fights for Food on the Fairgrounds

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Feral Feline Fights for Food on the Fairgrounds

By Scott|2021-05-16T12:56:25-05:00May 17th, 2021|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Administration Building, Machinery Hall, Midway Plaisance|

Several media outlets, including the Guardian and People, are reporting on Chicago’s use of feral cats to beat back our nationally recognized rat population. It’s old news. We’ve been relying on our feline friends since at least the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. “Not many people are aware that the World’s Fair has a cat,” wrote the Chicago Tribune in September 1893. “This ignorance on the part of visitors is largely due to the fact that the cat does not appear [...]

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118. Picturesque World’s Fair – The Great Steam Hammer
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118. Picturesque World’s Fair – The Great Steam Hammer

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118. Picturesque World’s Fair – The Great Steam Hammer

By Randy|2021-05-09T09:55:57-05:00May 9th, 2021|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Dankmar Adler, Louis Sullivan, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR, Transportation Building|

THE GREAT STEAM HAMMER.—One exhibit in the Transportation Building always attracted curious inspection. To many unfamiliar with the heavy machinery used in the vast manufactories of today, its use was not apparent, but to those informed in such fields it was an object of decided interest. This was the model of the monster steam hammer in use by the Bethlehem Iron Company, of Pennsylvania, the largest steam hammer in the world. Though painted to represent iron, the model was [...]

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Mar. 2, 2021: World’s Fair Auction #38 closes
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Mar. 2, 2021: World’s Fair Auction #38 closes

ANTIQUES, EVENTS (past)

Mar. 2, 2021: World’s Fair Auction #38 closes

By Scott|2021-04-04T05:46:06-05:00February 19th, 2021|Categories: ANTIQUES, EVENTS (past)|Tags: auction|

Columbian Exposition collectors may be interested in World’s Fair Auction #38, now open for preview. Online bidding closes at 10:00 PM EST on Tuesday, March 2, 2021. The auction catalog can be viewed at: http://www.worldsfairauction.com/cgi-bin/catalog.cgi. Lots 20 through 92 are items related to the 1893 World’s Fair, and include several products commemorating various building of the White City: a "World's Fair 1893" turquoise art glass creamer, an Agricultural Building china vase, and a Machinery Hall china plate; Machinery Hall cuff [...]

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“Halcyon Days in the Dream City’’ Part 13: The Illumination
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“Halcyon Days in the Dream City’’ Part 13: The Illumination

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“Halcyon Days in the Dream City’’ Part 13: The Illumination

By Scott|2021-04-02T11:21:21-05:00November 23rd, 2020|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: illumination|

Halcyon Days in the Dream City by Mrs. D. C. Taylor Continued from Part 12 To-day we went to the "Dream City," as Mrs. Candace Wheeler so prettily named the Chicago Exposition,[1] and saw the grand weekly illumination in the evening. At about five o'clock in the afternoon we pressed on with the crowd toward the grand basin. It seemed to be the objective point with all and we were so fortunate as to secure a seat on one [...]

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“Halcyon Days in the Dream City’’ Part 1: Salve
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“Halcyon Days in the Dream City’’ Part 1: Salve

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“Halcyon Days in the Dream City’’ Part 1: Salve

By Scott|2020-12-01T09:10:56-06:00November 1st, 2020|Categories: REPRINTS|

Halcyon Days in the Dream City by Mrs. D. C. Taylor Continued from Introduction With what joyous hearts and eager eyes, we first stepped through the turnstile at the 60th street entrance to the great Columbian Exposition of ’93. For three years we had talked of it, dreamed of it, read about it, and now at least it was a thing accomplished and we had entered the charmed precincts. We had decided to devote the first day to a [...]

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Charles Dana’s 1892 Roast of Chicago, Part 2. “The Metropolis of Misrepresentation”
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Charles Dana’s 1892 Roast of Chicago, Part 2. “The Metropolis of Misrepresentation”

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Charles Dana’s 1892 Roast of Chicago, Part 2. “The Metropolis of Misrepresentation”

By Scott|2024-05-17T09:18:34-05:00October 11th, 2020|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Auditorium, Charles Dana, Chicago Athletic Association, New York, Rookery Building|

The May 29, 1892, issue of New York Sun contained a nearly full-page invective titled “Chicago As Chicago Is.” Although the piece was signed "THE PICADOR," news outlets attributed this diatribe directly to the Sun’s editor and owner, Charles Dana. Having rebounded from the Great Fire of 1871, the Windy City easily extinguished his malicious editorial roast.

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