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Zoom to the 1893 World’s Fair with the Chicago History Museum
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Zoom to the 1893 World’s Fair with the Chicago History Museum

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Zoom to the 1893 World’s Fair with the Chicago History Museum

Stuck in endless online conferences? Ready to escape from the confines of your home office? Try adding a background that situates you at the 1893 World's Fair. The Chicago History Museum offers several images from their collection to use as a Zoom background. Among them is a famous photograph by C. D. Arnold of the Administration Building surrounded by crowds on Chicago Day [CHM, ICHi-002201] You can download the image at https://www.chicagohistory.org/zoom/ and start "Zooming through history." [...]

By Scott|2020-07-18T10:37:57-05:00July 19th, 2020|Categories: NEWS|Tags: Administration Building, Chicago Day|0 Comments

THE CITY OF WONDERS: A Souvenir of the World’s Fair (Chapter 13)
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THE CITY OF WONDERS: A Souvenir of the World’s Fair (Chapter 13)

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THE CITY OF WONDERS: A Souvenir of the World’s Fair (Chapter 13)

THE CITY OF WONDERS A SOUVENIR OF THE WORLD'S FAIR by Mary Catherine Crowley (1894)

By Scott|2024-09-22T10:10:23-05:00January 3rd, 2020|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Administration Building, Children's Building, Court of Honor, gondolas, Ho-o-den, Horticultural Building, illumination, Lake Michigan, Queen Victoria, rose garden, Woman's Building, Wooded Island|1 Comment

“The Current War” offers only a dimly lit view of the 1893 World’s Fair
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“The Current War” offers only a dimly lit view of the 1893 World’s Fair

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“The Current War” offers only a dimly lit view of the 1893 World’s Fair

The 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago shines on the big screen, if only for a few minutes. The Current War (2017, released 2019) tells the story of the rancorous rivalry between inventor Thomas Edison (Benedict Cumberbatch), who adamantly championed direct current (DC) technologies to electrify and illuminate American cities, and George Westinghouse (Michael Shannon), who banked on alternating current (AC). The legendary “war of the currents” has these titans of the electrical industry setting their sights on powering the Columbian [...]

By Scott|2023-12-20T13:47:10-06:00October 30th, 2019|Categories: NEWS, VIDEO|Tags: Administration Building, Charles Schwab, Daniel Burnham, Dewitt Cregier, electricity, Electricity Building, George Westinghouse, Grover Cleveland, Nikola Tesla, Opening Day, The Current War, Thomas Edison, Tower of Light, Victor Lawson, Zoopraxographical Hall|0 Comments

Richard Morris Hunt (1827-1895), dean of American Architecture
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Richard Morris Hunt (1827-1895), dean of American Architecture

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Richard Morris Hunt (1827-1895), dean of American Architecture

Today marks the anniversary of the death of Richard Morris Hunt, on July 31, 1895. Among the most revered architects working in the U.S. at the time of the World’s Columbian Exposition, Hunt was invited to contribute a design for the Administration Building, which stood in a position of honor at the west end of the Grand Basin. The magnificent classical Beaux-Arts building, capped by a gleaming gold dome, was considered one of the finest structures on the fairgrounds. [...]

By Scott|2019-07-30T12:24:40-05:00July 31st, 2019|Categories: HISTORY|Tags: Administration Building, City Beautiful, Karl Bitter, Richard Hunt|0 Comments

PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR – East Lagoon by Moonlight (p. 77)
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PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR – East Lagoon by Moonlight (p. 77)

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PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR – East Lagoon by Moonlight (p. 77)

PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR. AN ELABORATE COLLECTION OF COLORED VIEWS Page 77 – THE EAST LAGOON BY MOONLIGHT THE EAST LAGOON BY MOONLIGHT.— The night scenes at the Fair were undoubtedly the most beautiful for those who liked dreamy pictures, or half darkness contrasted with a blaze of glorious lights, better than unvarying white beauty. The fireworks, the illumination about the Court of Honor, the colored effects upon the Wooded Island were all charming and, in addition to these, was [...]

By Randy|2019-03-29T04:37:06-05:00March 29th, 2019|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Administration Building, Electricity Building, lagoon, Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR|0 Comments

THE LADY OF THE LAKE by Julian Hawthorne Part IV: The Incomparable Loveliness of the Illuminations
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THE LADY OF THE LAKE by Julian Hawthorne Part IV: The Incomparable Loveliness of the Illuminations

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THE LADY OF THE LAKE by Julian Hawthorne Part IV: The Incomparable Loveliness of the Illuminations

Author Julian Hawthorne visited the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Like so many other visitors who recorded their impressions of visiting the World’s Fair, he offered some of his highest praise for the electrical lighting of the night scene in the Dream City, a “banquet of royal beauty.” Reprinted below is the fourth and final part of Julian Hawthorne’s “The Lady of the Lake” about his June visit to the fairgrounds and published in the August 1893 issue [...]

By Scott|2022-12-10T10:05:26-06:00February 7th, 2019|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Administration Building, Agricultural Building, Diana, Electricity Building, illumination, Julian Hawthorne, lagoon, search lights|0 Comments

THE LADY OF THE LAKE by Julian Hawthorne Part I: Sculpture in the Grand Basin
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THE LADY OF THE LAKE by Julian Hawthorne Part I: Sculpture in the Grand Basin

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THE LADY OF THE LAKE by Julian Hawthorne Part I: Sculpture in the Grand Basin

Julian Hawthorne (June 22, 1846 – July 21, 1934) was the only son of novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne and himself a journalist and author. Julian Hawthorne’s biographer notes that “as an author, he far exceeded the literary production of his famous father, composing no less than twenty-six novels and romances, over sixty short stories, almost a hundred essays, and several lengthy works of history, biography, and autobiography.” [Bassan, Maurice Hawthorne’s Son: The Life and Literary Career of Julian Hawthorne. Ohio [...]

By Scott|2019-02-03T10:31:16-06:00February 2nd, 2019|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Administration Building, Alexander Phimister Proctor, Daniel Chester French, Edward Kemeys, Edward Potter, Frederick MacMonnies, Julian Hawthorne, Karl Bitter, MacMonnies Fountain, Peristyle, Philip Martiny, Statue of the Republic|2 Comments

Inside the Administration Building Dome: “The Glorification of the Arts and Sciences” by William Dodge (Part II)
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Inside the Administration Building Dome: “The Glorification of the Arts and Sciences” by William Dodge (Part II)

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Inside the Administration Building Dome: “The Glorification of the Arts and Sciences” by William Dodge (Part II)

[Part I of this article describes Dodge’s commission to paint a mural for the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition and his work to create The Glorification of the Arts and Sciences.] PART II: THE PROCESSION BEFORE THE THRONE OF APOLLO “… illuminated by the opal-like circle of light at the summit, Dodge’s great picture crowns the whole, with its circling procession of arts and sciences, gods and muses, nymphs and graces, and Apollos radiant in the midst.” —Lawrence L. Lynch in [...]

By Scott|2024-08-31T17:56:03-05:00September 23rd, 2018|Categories: HISTORY|Tags: 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, Administration Building, Francis Millet, Glorification of the Arts, Julian Hawthorne, Karl Bitter, Library of Congress, Richard Hunt, Royal Cortissoz, William Dodge|0 Comments

PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR – The Columbian Fountain (p. 63)
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PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR – The Columbian Fountain (p. 63)

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PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR – The Columbian Fountain (p. 63)

PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR. AN ELABORATE COLLECTION OF COLORED VIEWS Page 63 – THE COLUMBIAN FOUNTAIN THE COLUMBIAN FOUNTAIN.—The Columbian Fountain was generally recognized as a triumph of artistic work on a splendid scale and beyond simplicity in its significance. The prominent object in the Court of Honor, directly in front of the Administration Building was a great circular basin, one hundred and fifty feet in diameter, in which Columbia sat in a Barge of State, drawn by sea-horses and [...]

By Randy|2018-09-10T04:53:10-05:00September 10th, 2018|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Administration Building, Barge of State, Columbia, Columbian Fountain, Court of Honor, MacMonnies Fountain, PICTURESQUE WORLD’S FAIR|0 Comments

Rolling-Chair Romances
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Rolling-Chair Romances

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Rolling-Chair Romances

Recruit eight-hundred young college men to the fairgrounds of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition and assign them to work as escorts for young, attractive women. The situation is fraught with danger, advised the Chicago Record in an article appearing in May of 1893. The annotated news story reprinted below aimed to expose the “rolling romances” formed at the World’s Fair between the wheel-chair pushers—young men with a “very attentive attitude”—and their pert payload. Victorian-era readers (even those in gritty [...]

By Scott|2018-09-02T10:31:09-05:00September 4th, 2018|Categories: REPRINTS|Tags: Administration Building, Glorification of the Arts, John Wanamaker, rolling chairs, William Dodge|0 Comments