Bibliography Primary Sources

St. Joseph County Public Library (Indiana):

Bancroft, Hubert H. The Book of the Fair. Chicago: Blakely Printing Company, 1894. Print. I used this as more of a muse because it was so inspiring, rather than a resource. Also, it would be quite tedious to study from such an old and precious book.

Secondary Sources
St. Joseph County Public Library (Indiana) & later on, Budlong Woods Branch (CPL):
Jonnes, Jill. Empires of light : Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the race to electrify the world. New York: Random House, 2003. Print. I learned pretty much everything I know about AC and the Fair from this book. It gave me a lot of information and had many chapters which werent even directly related to my topic. I must say this book was most informative! In fact, I must shrewdly admit that most of my report was based on the things I learned from this book because the others simply could not embody my topic.

Conrad Sulzer Regional Library (Chicago Public Library): Platt, Harold L. The Electric City: Energy and Growth of the Chicago Area.
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1991. Print. This book, although it didnt teach me much of AC,gave me knowledge of a man named Samuel Insull who could convert AC to DC and DC to AC. I learned about how remarkable salesperson he was, and how the world kind of just flicked him off like a roll of sweat after a while when his prime was over. I also learned that not many people and places in Chicago could afford light at the time, so it was considered as something for the elite. In addition, the book spoke of how many small companies struggled to get lighting just to get ahead in the game! Isnt that sad? Adams, Rosemary K. A wild kind of boldness : the Chicago history reader Grand Rapids: William B Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1988. Print. This book taught me a bit more on how mindsets were affected because of the fair.What struck me was how it said that the fair embodied a feminine side, which was based on intellect and a masculine side which was based more on impulse. It then went on to talk about saloons and how any woman who went in one was considered a prostitute. Needless to say, it had nothing to do with my topic. Dybwad, G. L. Chicago day at the World's Columbian Exposition : illustrated with candid photographs. Albuquerque, N.M: The Books Stop Here, 1997. Print. This book talked a lot about an event called Chicago Day, which was the day when Chicago itself was represented. Seeing as, from what I learned from the book, Chicago Day was a day pretty much set apart from the fair and the fair itself was closed that day so that people who wanted to attend Chicago Day exclusively did, it wasnt actually part of my research. Also, a dragon float made of electricity by Edison was mentioned. However, as I have stated, it was not related to my topic.

Sawyers, June Skinner. Chicago sketches : urban tales, stories, and legends from Chicago history. Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1995. Print. From this I learned that there were people in Chicago who lived very exclusively and did not mix much with other ethnicities. Yet again, nothing to do with my topic.

St. Joseph County Public Library (only): Harris, Neil. Grand illusions : Chicago's World's Fair of 1893. Chicago: Chicago Historical Society, 1993.
Print. This book actually had some very interesting content. It spoke of how African-Americans wanted to have exhibits in the fair but there wasnt really anything dedicated to them. It also spoke of desperation among Chicagoans to be noticed and recognized as a city on par with Paris and New York, and how the exhibits made foreign women look desirable, so that those countries would be looked down upon as uncivilized. No matter how interesting that was, it proved extraneous to my topic. Findling, John E. Chicagos great worlds fairs. Manchester, New York: Manchester University Press, 1994. Print. There was more than one fair at Chicago, as I have learned from this book. However, if I recall correctly- it spoke of how even though Fairs kept getting better and better over time, with each trying to outdo the last, none of the Chicago fairs that followed the first could quite capture the splendor of it~! Once more, however, inapplicable to my topic. Gilbert, James. Perfect cities : Chicago's utopias of 1893. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991. Print. There was mention of how the Worlds Columbian Exposition of 1893 was supposed to show as the idealized city, but although this book spoke of the Columbian Exposition it did not mention electricity as much as I had hoped. ONeill, John J. Prodigal genius : the life of Nikola Tesla. Hollywood, California: Angriff Press, 1981. Print. This book ranted incessantly about how Tesla was a god and Edison was naught but a cheat. Did I mention it kept saying Tesla was a god? In fact, it said the word mortals as if there has been anything but in this world when it came to that guy. It kept ranting so much that it was impossible to understand just what exactly was being said in the book...I daresay I rest my case.