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The World's Columbian Exposition (the official shortened name for the World's Fair: Columbian Exposition,[1] also known as the Chicago World's Fair) was a world's fair held in Chicago in 1893 to
1893 Chicago
celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' arrival in the New World in 1492.[2] The centerpiece of the Fair, held in Jackson Park, was a large water pool representing the voyage Columbus
Contribute took to the New World. Chicago had won the right to host the fair over several other cities, including New York City, Washington, D.C., and St. Louis. The exposition was an influential social and cultural
Help event and had a profound effect on architecture, sanitation, the arts, Chicago's self-image, and American industrial optimism.
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The layout of the Chicago Columbian Exposition was, in large part, designed by John Wellborn Root, Daniel Burnham, Frederick Law Olmsted and Charles B. Atwood.[3][4] It was the prototype of what
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musicians were featured in exhibits and many also made depictions and works of art inspired by the exposition.
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The exposition covered 690 acres (2.8 km2), featuring nearly 200 new (but deliberately temporary) buildings of predominantly neoclassical architecture, canals and lagoons, and people and cultures from
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Dedication ceremonies for the fair were held on October 21, 1892, but the fairgrounds were not actually opened to the public until May 1, 1893. The fair continued until October 30, 1893. In addition to
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recognizing the 400th anniversary of the discovery of the New World by Europeans, the fair also served to show the world that Chicago had risen from the ashes of the Great Chicago Fire, which had
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On October 9, 1893, the day designated as Chicago Day, the fair set a world record for outdoor event attendance, drawing 751,026 people. The debt for the fair was soon paid off with a check for $1.5 BIE-class Universal exposition
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million (equivalent to $42.7 million in 2019). Chicago has commemorated the fair with one of the stars on the Municipal Flag.
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Printable version Contents [hide] Name World's Columbian Exposition
Area 690 acres (280 hectares)
In other projects 1 History
1.1 Planning and organization Visitors 27,300,000
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1.2 Operation Participant(s)
Languages 1.3 Assassination of mayor and end of fair Countries 46

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Español 2.1 Anthropology Country United States
Français City Chicago
2.2 Rail
‫עברית‬ Venue Jackson Park and Midway Plaisance
2.3 Country and state exhibition buildings
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2.4 Guns and artillery Coordinates 41°47′24″N 87°34′48″W
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Русский 2.5 Religions Timeline
த ழ் 2.6 Moving walkway Bidding 1882
中文 2.7 Horticulture Awarded 1890
3 Architecture Opening May 1, 1893
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3.1 White City Closure October 30, 1893
Edit links 3.1.1 White City controversy Universal expositions
3.1.2 Role in the City Beautiful Movement
Previous Exposition Universelle (1889) in Paris
3.2 Great buildings
Next Brussels International (1897) in Brussels
3.3 Transportation Building
3.4 Surviving structures
3.5 Gallery
4 Visitors
5 Souvenirs
6 Electricity
7 Music
7.1 Musicians
7.2 Other music and musicians
8 Art
8.1 American artists exhibiting
8.1.1 Painters
8.1.2 Sculptors
8.2 Japanese art
8.3 Women artists exhibiting
9 Notable firsts
9.1 Concepts
9.2 Commemorations
9.3 Edibles and potables
9.4 Inventions and manufacturing advances
9.5 Organizations
9.6 Performances
10 Later years
11 In popular culture
12 See also
13 Notes
14 References
15 Further reading
16 External links

History [ edit ]

Planning and organization [ edit ]

Many prominent civic, professional, and commercial leaders from around the United States participated in the financing, coordination, and management of the Fair, including Chicago shoe company owner Charles H.
Schwab,[7] Chicago railroad and manufacturing magnate John Whitfield Bunn, and Connecticut banking, insurance, and iron products magnate Milo Barnum Richardson, among many others.[8][9]

The fair was planned in the early 1890s during the Gilded Age of rapid industrial growth, immigration, and class tension. World's fairs, such as London's 1851 Crystal Palace Exhibition, had been successful in Europe as a way
to bring together societies fragmented along class lines.

The first American attempt at a world's fair in Philadelphia in 1876 drew crowds but was a financial failure. Nonetheless, ideas about distinguishing the 400th anniversary of Columbus' landing started in the late 1880s. Civic
leaders in St. Louis, New York City, Washington DC, and Chicago expressed interest in hosting a fair to generate profits, boost real estate values, and promote their cities. Congress was called on to decide the location. New
York financiers J. P. Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and William Waldorf Astor, among others, pledged $15 million to finance the fair if Congress awarded it to New York, while Chicagoans Charles T. Yerkes, Marshall Field,
Philip Armour, Gustavus Swift, and Cyrus McCormick, offered to finance a Chicago fair. What finally persuaded Congress was Chicago banker Lyman Gage, who raised several million additional dollars in a 24-hour period,
over and above New York's final offer.[10] Advertisement for the Exposition,
depicting a portrait of Christopher
Chicago representatives not only fought for the world's fair for monetary reasons, but also for reasons of practicality. In a Senate hearing held in January 1890, representative Thomas B. Bryan argued that the most important Columbus
qualities for a world's fair were “abundant supplies of good air and pure water,...ample space, accommodations and transportation for all exhibits and visitors...." He argued that New York had too many obstructions, and
Chicago would be able to use large amounts of land around the city where there was "not a house to buy and not a rock to blast...." and that it would be so located that "the artisan and the farmer and the shopkeeper and the
man of humble means" would be able to access the fair easily. Bryan continued to say that the fair was of “vital interest” to the West, and that the West wanted the location to be Chicago. The city spokesmen would continue to
stress the essentials of a successful Exposition and that only Chicago was fit to fill these exposition requirements.[11]

The location of the fair was decided through several rounds of voting by the United States House of Representatives. The first ballot showed Chicago with a large lead over New York, St. Louis, and Washington, DC, but short
of a majority. Chicago broke the 154-vote majority threshold on the eighth ballot, receiving 157 votes to New York's 107.[12]

The exposition corporation and national exposition commission settled on Jackson Park and an area around it as the fair site. Daniel H. Burnham was selected as director of works, and George R. Davis as director-general.
Burnham emphasized architecture and sculpture as central to the fair and assembled the period's top talent to design the buildings and grounds including Frederick Law Olmsted for the grounds.[2] The temporary buildings
were designed in an ornate Neoclassical style and painted white, resulting in the fair site being referred to as the "White City".[10]

The Exposition's offices set up shop in the upper floors of the Rand McNally Building on Adams Street, the world's first all-steel-framed skyscraper. Davis's team organized the exhibits with the help of G. Brown Goode of the
Smithsonian. The Midway was inspired by the 1889 Paris Universal Exposition, which included ethnological "villages.” [13]

Civil rights leaders protested the refusal to include an African-American exhibit. Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, Irvine Garland Penn, and Ferdinand Lee Barnet co-authored a pamphlet entitled "The Reason Why the Colored
American is not in the World's Columbian Exposition – The Afro-American's Contribution to Columbian Literature" addressing the issue. The exhibition included a number of exhibits put on by black individuals and approved by
white organizers of the fair, including exhibits by the sculptor Edmonia Lewis, a painting exhibit by scientist George Washington Carver, and a statistical exhibit by Joan Imogen Howard. It also included blacks in white exhibits,
such as Nancy Green's portrayal of the character Aunt Jemima for the R. T. Davis Milling Company.[14] Thomas Moran – Chicago World's
Fair – Brooklyn Museum painting of the
Administration Building
Operation [ edit ]

The fair opened in May and ran through October 30, 1893. Forty-six nations participated in the fair (it was the first world's fair to have national pavilions),[15] constructing exhibits and pavilions and naming national "delegates"
(for example, Haiti selected Frederick Douglass to be its delegate).[16] The Exposition drew over 27 million visitors.[17] The fair was originally meant to be closed on Sundays, but the Chicago Woman's Club petitioned that it
stay open.[18][19] The club felt that if the exposition was closed on Sunday, it would restrict those who could not take off work during the work-week from seeing it.[20]

The exposition was located in Jackson Park and on the Midway Plaisance on 630 acres (2.5 km2) in the neighborhoods of South Shore, Jackson Park Highlands, Hyde Park, and Woodlawn. Charles H. Wacker was the
director of the fair. The layout of the fairgrounds was created by Frederick Law Olmsted, and the Beaux-Arts architecture of the buildings was under the direction of Daniel Burnham, Director of Works for the fair. Renowned
local architect Henry Ives Cobb designed several buildings for the exposition. The director of the American Academy in Rome, Francis Davis Millet, directed the painted mural decorations. Indeed, it was a coming-of-age for the
arts and architecture of the "American Renaissance," and it showcased the burgeoning neoclassical and Beaux-Arts styles.

Assassination of mayor and end of fair [ edit ] Final vote in the United States
House of Representatives on location
The fair ended with the city in shock, as popular mayor Carter Harrison, Sr. was assassinated by Patrick Eugene Prendergast two days before the fair's closing.[21] Closing ceremonies were canceled in favor of a public of the 1893 World's Fair
memorial service.

Jackson Park was returned to its status as a public park, in much better shape than its original swampy form. The lagoon was reshaped to give it a more natural appearance, except for the straight-line northern end where it
still laps up against the steps on the south side of the Palace of Fine Arts/Museum of Science & Industry building. The Midway Plaisance, a park-like boulevard which extends west from Jackson Park, once formed the
southern boundary of the University of Chicago, which was being built as the fair was closing (the university has since developed south of the Midway). The university's football team, the Maroons, were the original "Monsters
of the Midway." The exposition is mentioned in the university's alma mater: "The City White hath fled the earth,/But where the azure waters lie,/A nobler city hath its birth,/The City Gray that ne'er shall die."[22]

Attractions [ edit ]

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The World's Columbian Exposition was the first world's fair with an area for amusements that was strictly separated from the exhibition halls. This area, developed by a young music promoter, Sol Bloom, concentrated on
Midway Plaisance and introduced the term "midway" to American English to describe the area of a carnival or fair where sideshows are located.[23]

It included carnival rides, among them the original Ferris Wheel, built by George Washington Gale Ferris Jr.[2] This wheel was 264 feet (80 m) high and had 36 cars, each of which could accommodate 40 people.[2][24] The
importance of the Columbian Exposition is highlighted by the use of rueda de Chicago ("Chicago wheel") in many Latin American countries such as Costa Rica and Chile in reference to the Ferris wheel.[25] One attendee,
George C. Tilyou, later credited the sights he saw on the Chicago midway for inspiring him to create America's first major amusement park, Steeplechase Park in Coney Island, New York.

The fair included life-size reproductions of Christopher Columbus' three ships, the Niña (real name Santa Clara), the Pinta, and the Santa María. These were intended to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Columbus' discovery
of the Americas. The ships, a joint project of the governments of Spain and the United States, were constructed in Spain and then sailed to America for the exposition. The ships were a very popular exhibit.[26][27]

Eadweard Muybridge gave a series of lectures on the Science of Animal Locomotion in the Zoopraxographical Hall, built specially for that purpose on Midway Plaisance. He used his zoopraxiscope to show his moving pictures
to a paying public. The hall was the first commercial movie theater.[28]

The "Street in Cairo" included the popular dancer known as Little Egypt.[29] She introduced America to the suggestive version of the belly dance known as the "hootchy-kootchy," to a tune said to have been improvised by Sol
Bloom (and now more commonly associated with snake charmers) which he had composed when his dancers had no music to dance to.[4][30] Bloom did not copyright the song, putting it immediately in the public domain.

Also included was the first moving walkway or travelator, which was designed by architect Joseph Lyman Silsbee. It had two different divisions: one where passengers were seated, and one where riders could stand or walk. It
ran in a loop down the length of a lakefront pier to a casino.
“Columbian Exposition” of 1892
Although denied a spot at the fair, Buffalo Bill Cody decided to come to Chicago anyway, setting up his Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show just outside the edge of the exposition. Nearby, historian Frederick Jackson Turner gave
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academic lectures reflecting on the end of the frontier which Buffalo Bill represented.

The electrotachyscope of Ottomar Anschütz was demonstrated, which used a Geissler tube to project the illusion of moving images.

Louis Comfort Tiffany made his reputation with a stunning chapel designed and built for the Exposition. After the Exposition the Tiffany Chapel was sold on several times, even going back to Tiffany's estate. It was eventually
reconstructed and restored and in 1999 it was installed at the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art.

Architect Kirtland Cutter's Idaho Building, a rustic log construction, was a popular favorite,[31] visited by an estimated 18 million people.[32] The building's design and interior furnishings were a major precursor of the Arts and
Crafts movement.

Among the other attractions at the fair, several products that are well-known today were introduced. These products included Juicy Fruit Gum, Cream of Wheat, and Pabst Blue Ribbon beer, among many others.

Anthropology [ edit ]
The original Ferris Wheel
There was an Anthropology Building at the World's Fair. Nearby, "The Cliff Dwellers" featured a rock and timber structure that was painted to recreate Battle Rock Mountain in Colorado, a stylized recreation of an American
Indian cliff dwelling with pottery, weapons, and other relics on display.[33] There was also an Eskimo display. There were also birch bark wigwams of the Penobscot tribe. Nearby was a working model Indian school, organized
by the Office of Indian Affairs, that housed delegations of Native American students and their teachers from schools around the country for weeks at a time.[34]

Rail [ edit ]

The John Bull locomotive was displayed. It was only 62 years old, having been built in 1831. It was the first locomotive acquisition by the Smithsonian Institution. The locomotive ran under its own power from Washington, DC,
to Chicago to participate, and returned to Washington under its own power again when the exposition closed. In 1981 it was the oldest surviving operable steam locomotive in the world when it ran under its own power again.

A Baldwin 2-4-2 locomotive was showcased at the exposition, and subsequently the 2-4-2 type was known as the Columbia.

An original frog switch and portion of the superstructure of the famous 1826 Granite Railway in Massachusetts could be viewed. This was the first commercial railroad in the United States to evolve into a common carrier An exhibit hall interior
without an intervening closure. The railway brought granite stones from a rock quarry in Quincy, Massachusetts, so that the Bunker Hill Monument could be erected in Boston. The frog switch is now on public view in East
Milton Square, Massachusetts, on the original right-of-way of the Granite Railway.

Transportaion by rail was the major mode of transportation. A 26 track train station was built at the South West corner of the fair. While trains from around the country would unload there, there was a local train to shuttle
tourists from the Chicago Grand Central Station to the fair.

Country and state exhibition buildings [ edit ]

Forty-six countries had pavilions at the exposition.[2] Norway participated by sending the Viking, a replica of the Gokstad ship. It was built in Norway and sailed across the Atlantic by 12 men, led by Captain Magnus Andersen.
In 1919 this ship was moved to Lincoln Park. It was relocated in 1996 to Good Templar Park in Geneva, Illinois, where it awaits renovation.[35][36]

Thirty-four U.S. states also had their own pavilions.[2] The work of noted feminist author Kate McPhelim Cleary was featured during the opening of the Nebraska Day ceremonies at the fair, which included a reading of her
poem "Nebraska".[37] Among the state buildings present at the fair were California, Connecticut, Florida, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Texas; each was meant to be architecturally representative of Idaho Building
the corresponding states.[38]

Four United States territories also had pavilions located in one building: Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Utah.[2]

Visitors to the Louisiana Pavilion were each given a seedling of a cypress tree. This resulted in the spread of cypress trees to areas where they were not native. Cypress trees from those seedlings can be found in many areas
of West Virginia, where they flourish in the climate.[39]

The Illinois was a detailed, full-scale mockup of an Indiana-class battleship, constructed as a naval exhibit.

Guns and artillery [ edit ]

The German firm Krupp had a pavilion of artillery, which apparently had cost one million dollars to stage,[40] including a coastal gun of 42 cm in bore (16.54 inches) and a length of 33 calibres (45.93 feet, 14 meters). A breech-
loaded gun, it weighed 120.46 long tons (122.4 metric tons). According to the company's marketing: "It carried a charge projectile weighing from 2,200 to 2,500 pounds which, when driven by 900 pounds of brown powder, was
John Bull on display at the
claimed to be able to penetrate at 2,200 yards a wrought-iron plate three feet thick if placed at right angles."[41] Nicknamed "The Thunderer", the gun had an advertised range of 15 miles; on this occasion John Schofield exposition.
declared Krupps' guns "the greatest peacemakers in the world".[40] This gun was later seen as a precursor of the company's World War I Dicke Berta howitzers.[42]

Religions [ edit ]

The 1893 Parliament of the World's Religions, which ran from September 11 to September 27, marked the first formal gathering of representatives of Eastern and Western spiritual traditions from around the world. According to
Eric J. Sharpe, Tomoko Masuzawa, and others, the event was considered radical at the time, since it allowed non-Christian faiths to speak on their own behalf; it was not taken seriously by European scholars until the
1960s.[43]

Moving walkway [ edit ] Stereoscopic image of the Great

Krupp Building
Along the banks of the lake, patrons on the way to the casino were taken on a moving walkway designed by architect Joseph Lyman Silsbee, the first of its kind open to the public,[44] called The Great Wharf, Moving Sidewalk,
it allowed people to walk along or ride in seats.[1]

Horticulture [ edit ]

Horticultural exhibits at the Horticultural Hall included cacti and orchids as well as other plants in a greenhouse.

Architecture [ edit ]

White City [ edit ]

Most of the buildings of the fair were designed in the neoclassical architecture style. The area at the Court of Honor was known as The White City. Façades were made not of stone,
The Great Wharf, Moving Sidewalk
but of a mixture of plaster, cement, and jute fiber called staff, which was painted white, giving the buildings their "gleam.” Architecture critics derided the structures as "decorated sheds.”
The buildings were clad in white stucco, which, in comparison to the tenements of Chicago, seemed illuminated. It was also called the White City because of the extensive use of street
lights, which made the boulevards and buildings usable at night.

In 1892, working under extremely tight deadlines to complete construction, director of works Daniel Burnham appointed Francis Davis Millet to replace the fair's official director of color-design, William Pretyman. Pretyman had
resigned following a dispute with Burnham. After experimenting, Millet settled on a mix of oil and white lead whitewash that could be applied using compressed air spray painting to the buildings, taking considerably less time
than traditional brush painting.[4] Joseph Binks, maintenance supervisor at Chicago's Marshall Field's Wholesale Store, who had been using this method to apply whitewash to the subbasement walls of the store, got the job to
paint the Exposition buildings.[45][46] Claims this was the first use of spray painting may be apocryphal since journals from that time note this form of painting had already been in use in the railroad industry from the early
1880s.[47]

White City Many of the buildings included sculptural details and, to meet the Exposition's opening deadline, chief architect Burnham sought the help of Chicago Art Institute instructor Lorado Taft to help complete them. Taft's efforts
included employing a group of talented women sculptors from the Institute known as "the White Rabbits" to finish some of the buildings, getting their name from Burnham's comment "Hire anyone, even white rabbits if they'll do
the work."

White City controversy [ edit ]

According to University of Notre Dame history professor Gail Bederman, White City sparked considerable controversy. In her 1995 text Manliness and Civilization, she writes, "The White City, with its vision of future perfection
and of the advanced racial power of manly commerce and technology, constructed civilization as an ideal of white male power."[48] According to Bederman, people of color were barred entirely from participating in the
organization of the White City and were instead given access only to the Midway exhibit, "which specialized in spectacles of barbarous races - 'authentic' villages of Samoans, Egyptians, Dahomans, Turks, and other exotic
peoples, populated by actual imported 'natives.'"[48]

Two small exhibits were included in the White City's "Woman's Building" which addressed women of color. One, entitled "Afro-American" was installed in a distant corner of the building.[48] The other, called "Woman's Work in
Savagery," included baskets, weavings, and African, Polynesian, and Native American arts. Though they were produced by living women of color, the materials were represented as relics from the distant past, embodying "the
work of white women's own distant evolutionary foremothers."[48]

In response to these failings, civil rights leaders Ida B. Wells, Frederick Douglass, Irvine Garland Penn, and Ferdinand Lee Barnet wrote and circulated a pamphlet at the exposition titled The Reason Why the Colored
Apart from official nation displays,
American Is Not in the World's Columbian Exposition , which argued the exposition organizers had deliberately excluded African Americans from the White City in order "to shame the Negro."[48] By only allowing Black people non-white cultures were largely
to be featured in "Midway," Wells and Douglass argued, "the Dahomians are also here to exhibit the Negro as a repulsive savage."[48] Ten thousand copies of the pamphlet were circulated in the White City from the Haitian excluded from the main park and were
Embassy (where Douglass had been selected as its national representative), and the activists received responses from the delegations of England, Germany, France, Russia, and India.[48] instead found on the Midway.

Role in the City Beautiful Movement [ edit ]

The White City is largely credited for ushering in the City Beautiful movement and planting the seeds of modern city planning. The highly integrated design of the landscapes, promenades, and structures provided a vision of
what is possible when planners, landscape architects, and architects work together on a comprehensive design scheme.

The White City inspired cities to focus on the beautification of the components of the city in which municipal government had control; streets, municipal art, public buildings, and public spaces. The designs of the City Beautiful
Movement (closely tied with the municipal art movement) are identifiable by their classical architecture, plan symmetry, picturesque views, and axial plans, as well as their magnificent scale. Where the municipal art movement
focused on beautifying one feature in a city, the City Beautiful movement began to make improvements on the scale of the district. The White City of the World's Columbian Exposition inspired the Merchants Club of Chicago to
commission Daniel Burnham to create the Plan of Chicago in 1909.[49] The "Great White City"

Great buildings [ edit ]

There were fourteen main "great buildings"[33]:17 centered around a giant reflective pool called the Grand Basin.[50] Buildings included:

The Administration Building, designed by Richard Morris Hunt

The Agricultural Building, designed by Charles McKim of McKim, Mead & White
The Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, designed by George B. Post. If this building were standing today, it would rank second in volume and third in footprint on list of largest buildings (130,000m2, 8,500,000m3).[4] It
exhibited works related to literature, science, art and music.
The Mines and Mining Building, designed by Solon Spencer Beman
The Electricity Building, designed by Henry Van Brunt and Frank Maynard Howe Painting of the Agricultural Building
The Machinery Hall, designed by Robert Swain Peabody of Peabody and Stearns
The Woman's Building, designed by Sophia Hayden
The Transportation Building, designed by Adler & Sullivan
The Fisheries Building designed by Henry Ives Cobb[33]:23
Forestry Building designed by Charles B. Atwood
The Forestry Building – one of the
Horticultural Building designed by Jenney and Mundie
World's Fair structures; Columbian
Anthropology Building designed by Charles B. Atwood Exposition

Transportation Building [ edit ]

Louis Sullivan's polychrome proto-Modern Transportation Building was an outstanding exception to the prevailing style, as he tried to develop an organic American form. Years later, in 1922, he wrote that the classical style of
the White City had set back modern American architecture by forty years.[51]

As detailed in Erik Larson's popular history The Devil in the White City, extraordinary effort was required to accomplish the exposition, and much of it was unfinished on opening day. The famous Ferris Wheel, which proved to
be a major attendance draw and helped save the fair from bankruptcy, was not finished until June, because of waffling by the board of directors the previous year on whether to build it. Frequent debates and disagreements
among the developers of the fair added many delays. The spurning of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show proved a serious financial mistake. Buffalo Bill set up his highly popular show next door to the fair and brought in a great deal
of revenue that he did not have to share with the developers. Nonetheless, construction and operation of the fair proved to be a windfall for Chicago workers during the serious economic recession that was sweeping the
country.[4]
Golden Arch at Louis Sullivan's
Surviving structures [ edit ] Transportation Building

Pinta, Santa María, and Niña replicas from Spain. The Viking, a replica of the Gokstad ship. After the fair, the White City on fire.

Almost all of the fair's structures were designed to be temporary; of the more than 200 buildings erected for the fair, the only two which still stand in place are the Palace of Fine Arts and the World's Congress Auxiliary Building. From the time the fair closed until 1920,
the Palace of Fine Arts housed the Field Columbian Museum (now the Field Museum of Natural History, since relocated); in 1933 (having been completely rebuilt in permanent materials), the Palace building re-opened as the Museum of Science and Industry.[52] The
second building, the World's Congress Building, was one of the few buildings not built in Jackson Park, instead it was built downtown in Grant Park. The cost of construction of the World's Congress Building was shared with the Art Institute of Chicago, which, as
planned, moved into the building (the museum's current home) after the close of the fair.

The three other significant buildings that survived the fair represented Norway, the Netherlands, and the State of Maine. The Norway Building was a recreation of a traditional wooden stave church. After the Fair it was relocated to Lake Geneva, and in 1935 was
moved to a museum called Little Norway in Blue Mounds, Wisconsin. In 2015 it was dismantled and shipped back to Norway, where it was restored and reassembled.[53] The second is the Maine State Building, designed by Charles Sumner Frost, which was
purchased by the Ricker family of Poland Spring, Maine. They moved the building to their resort to serve as a library and art gallery. The Poland Spring Preservation Society now owns the building, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
The third is The Dutch House, which was moved to Brookline, Massachusetts.

The 1893 Viking ship that was sailed to the Exposition from Norway by Captain Magnus Andersen, is located in Geneva, Illinois. The ship is open to visitors on scheduled days April through October.[54]

The main altar at St. John Cantius in Chicago, as well as its matching two side altars, are reputed to be from the Columbian Exposition.

Since many of the other buildings at the fair were intended to be temporary, they were removed after the fair. The White City so impressed visitors (at least before air pollution began to darken the façades) that plans were considered to refinish the exteriors in marble
or some other material. These plans were abandoned in July 1894, when much of the fair grounds was destroyed in a fire.

Gallery [ edit ]

The Administration Building and Grand The Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, seen from the Horticultural Building, with Illinois Building in the A view toward the Peristyle from Machinery Hall. Midway Plaisance
Court during the October 9, 1893, southwest. background.
commemoration of the 22nd anniversary
of the Chicago Fire.

Frederick MacMonnies' Columbian Fountain. "Canal of Venice" during Chicago World's Fair 1893

Visitors [ edit ]

Helen Keller, along with her mentor Anne Sullivan and Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, visited the fair in summer of 1893. Keller described the fair in her autobiography The Story of My Life.[55] Early in July, a Wellesley College English teacher named Katharine Lee
Bates visited the fair. The White City later inspired the reference to "alabaster cities" in her poem and lyrics "America the Beautiful".[56] The exposition was extensively reported by Chicago publisher William D. Boyce's reporters and artists.[57] There is a very detailed
and vivid description of all facets of this fair by the Persian traveler Mirza Mohammad Ali Mo'in ol-Saltaneh written in Persian. He departed from Persia on April 20, 1892, especially for the purpose of visiting the World's Columbian Exposition.[58] Pierre de Coubertin
visited the fair with his friends Paul Bourget and Samuel Jean de Pozzi. He devotes the first chapter of his book " Souvenirs d'Amérique et de Grèce " (1897) to the visit. Swami Vivekananda visited the fair to attend the Parliament of the World's Religions and
delivered his famous speech "Sisters and Brothers of America!".[59] Kubota Beisen was an official delegate of Japan. As an artist, he sketched hundreds of scenes, some of which were later used to make woodblock print books about the Exhibition.[60] Serial killer H.
H. Holmes attended the fair with two of his eventual victims, Annie and Minnie Williams.

Souvenirs [ edit ]

Examples of exposition souvenirs can be found in various American museum collections. One example, copyrighted in 1892 by John W. Green, is a folding hand fan with detailed illustrations of landscapes and architecture.[61]
Charles W Goldsmith produced a set of ten postcard designs, each in full colour, showing the buildings constructed for the exhibition.[62] Columbian Exposition coins were also minted for the event.

Electricity [ edit ]
Ticket for Chicago Day
The effort to power the Fair with electricity, which became a demonstration piece for Westinghouse Electric and the alternating current system they had been developing for many years, took place at the end of what has been
called the War of the currents between DC and AC.[63] Westinghouse initially did not put in a bid to power the Fair but agreed to be the contractor for a local Chicago company that put in a low bid of US$510,000 to supply an
alternating current based system.[64] Edison General Electric, which at the time was merging with the Thomson-Houston Electric Company to form General Electric, put in a US$1.72 million bid to power the Fair and its
planned 93,000 incandescent lamps with direct current. After the Fair committee went over both proposals, Edison General Electric re-bid their costs at $554,000 but Westinghouse under bid them by 70 cents per lamp to get
the contract.[64][65] Westinghouse could not use the Edison incandescent lamp since the patent belonged to General Electric and they had successfully sued to stop use of all patent infringing designs. Since Edison specified a
sealed globe of glass in his design Westinghouse found a way to sidestep the Edison patent by quickly developing a lamp with a ground glass stopper in one end, based on a Sawyer-Man "stopper" lamp patent they already
had. The lamps worked well but were short lived, requiring a small army of workmen to constantly replace them.[65]:140 Westinghouse Electric had severely underbid the contract and struggled to supply all the equipment
specified including twelve 1,000 horsepower single phase AC generators and all the lighting and other equipment required.[66] They also had to fend off a last minute lawsuit by General Electric claiming the Westinghouse
Sawyer-Man based stopper lamp infringed on the Edison incandescent lamp patent.[65]:142

The International Exposition was held in an Electricity Building which was devoted to electrical exhibits. A statue of Benjamin Franklin was displayed at the entrance. The exposition featured interior and exterior light and
Electricity was used to decorate the
displays as well as displays of Thomas Edison's kinetoscope, search lights, a seismograph, electric incubators for chicken eggs,[67] and Morse code telegraph.[33]:22 buildings with incandescent lights,
illuminate fountains, and power three
All the exhibits were from commercial enterprises. Participants included General Electric, Brush, Western Electric, and Westinghouse. The Westinghouse Company displayed several polyphase systems. The exhibits included
huge spotlights.
a switchboard, polyphase generators, step-up transformers, transmission line, step-down transformers, commercial size induction motors and synchronous motors, and rotary direct current converters (including an operational
railway motor). The working scaled system allowed the public a view of a system of polyphase power which could be transmitted over long distances, and be utilized, including the supply of direct current. Meters and other
auxiliary devices were also present.

Part of the space occupied by the Westinghouse Company was devoted to demonstrations of electrical devices developed by Nikola Tesla[68] including induction motors and the generators used to power the system.[69] The
rotating magnetic field that drove these motors was explained through a series of demonstrations including an Egg of Columbus that used the two-phase coil in the induction motors to spin a copper egg making it stand on
end.[70]

Tesla himself showed up for week in August to attend the International Electrical Congress, being held at the fair's Agriculture Hall, and put on a series of demonstrations of his wireless lighting system in a specially set up
darkened room at the Westinghouse exhibit.[71][72] These included demonstrations he had previously performed throughout America and Europe[73] including using a nearby coil to light a wireless gas-discharge lamp held in
his hand.[74][73]

Also at the Fair, the Chicago Athletic Association Football team played one of the first night football games against West Point (the earliest being on September 28, 1892 between Mansfield State Normal and Wyoming
Seminary). Chicago won the game 14–0. The game lasted only 40 minutes, compared to the normal 90 minutes.[75]
Westinghouses' World's Fair
presentation explaining Tesla's AC
induction motors and high frequency Music [ edit ]
experiments
Musicians [ edit ]

John Philip Sousa′s Band played for the Exposition dedication celebration in Chicago, 10 October through 21 October 1892.
Joseph Douglass, classical violinist, who achieved wide recognition after his performance there and became the first African-American violinist to conduct a transcontinental tour and the first to tour as
a concert violinist.[76][77]
Sissieretta Jones, a soprano known as "the Black Patti" and an already-famous opera singer.[78]
A paper on African-American spirituals and shouts by Abigail Christensen was read to attendees.[79]

There were many other black artists at the fair, ranging from minstrel and early ragtime groups to more formal classical ensembles to street buskers.

Scott Joplin, pianist, from Texarkana, Texas; became widely known for his piano playing at the fair.

Other music and musicians [ edit ]

The first Indonesian music performance in the United States was at the exposition.[80] The gamelan instruments used in the performance were later placed in the Field Museum of Natural History.
A group of hula dancers led to increased awareness of Hawaiian music among Americans throughout the country.[81]
Stoughton Musical Society, the oldest choral society in the United States, presented the first concerts of early American music at the exposition.
Bird's Eye View, 1893
The first eisteddfod (a Welsh choral competition with a history spanning many centuries) held outside Wales was held in Chicago at the exposition.
A 250-voice Mormon Tabernacle Choir competed in the Eisteddfod taking the second place prize of $1000. This was the first appearance of the Choir outside the Utah territory.
August 12, 1893 – Antonín Dvořák conducted a gala "Bohemian Day" concert at the exposition, besieged by visitors including the conductor of the Chicago Symphony, who arranged for performance of Dvořák's American string quartet, just completed in Spillville,
Iowa, during a Dvořák family vacation in a Czech-speaking community there.[82]
American composer Amy Beach (1867–1944) was commissioned by the Board of Lady Managers of the fair to compose a choral work (Festival Jubilate, op. 17) for the opening of the Woman's Building.[83]
Sousa's Band played concerts in the south bandstand on the Great Plaza, 25 May to 28 June 1893.
The University of Illinois Military Band conducted by student leaders Charles Elder and Richard Sharpe played concerts twice daily in the Illinois Building 9 June to 24 June 1893. Soloists were William Sandford, euphonium; Charles Elder, clarinet; William Steele,
cornet. The band members slept on cots on the top floor of the building.
8 June 1893 — The Exposition Orchestra, an expanded version of the Chicago Symphony conducted by guest conductor Vojtěch I. Hlaváč, played the American premiere of Modest Mussorgsky's A Night on Bald Mountain as part of a concert of Russian folk
music.[84]

Art [ edit ]

American artists exhibiting [ edit ]

Main article: List of American painters exhibited at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition
Main article: List of American sculptors exhibited at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition

Painters [ edit ]
Adam Emory Albright[85]:202
Henry Alexander[85]:202
Maitland Armstrong[85]:203
William Jacob Baer[85]:203
William Bliss Baker[85]:204
Cecilia Beaux[85]:204
James Carroll Beckwith[85]:205
Enella Benedict [85]:206
Frank Weston Benson[85]:206
Daniel Folger Bigelow [85]:207
Ralph Albert Blakelock
Edwin Howland Blashfield[85]:208
Mary Cassat[86]
Sarah Paxton Ball Dodson[87]
Thomas Eakins
Charles Morgan McIlhenney[85]:386
Gari Melchers[85]:386–87
Anna Lea Merritt[88]
John Harrison Mills[85]:370
Robert Crannell Minor[85]:390
Louis Moeller
Harry Humphrey Moore[85]:390–91
Edward Moran
John Singer Sargent
Sculptors [ edit ]
Sarah Fisher Ames, sculptor[89]
Cyrus Edwin Dallin, sculptor – Signal of Peace[85]:362
Charles Grafly – Bust of Daedalus
Mary Lawrence, sculptor[90]
Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson (as Theo Alice Ruggles)[85]:376
Aloys Loeher
Carol Brooks MacNeil (as Caroline Brooks)[85]:165
Helen Farnsworth Mears[91]
Samuel Murray – Bust of Walt Whitman
[85]:207–08
William Rudolf O'Donovan – Bust of Thomas Eakins[85]:371–72
Bessie Potter[85]:374
Peter Moran[85]:396 Souvenir Map, 1893
George D. Peterson
Preston Powers[85]:374
Katherine Prescott[85]:374
A. Phimister Proctor[85]:374
John Rogers[85]:374
Carl Rohl-Smith[85]:p. 376
Lorado Taft[85]:378
Douglas Tilden[85]:375
Luella Varney[92]

Japanese art [ edit ]

Japan's artistic contribution was mainly in porcelain, cloisonné enamel, metalwork and embroidery.[93] While 55 paintings and 24 sculptures came from Japan, 271 of the 290 exhibits in the Palace of Fine Arts were Japanese.[93] Artists represented included
Miyagawa Kozan, Yabu Meizan, Namikawa Sōsuke, and Suzuki Chokichi.[94]

Women artists exhibiting [ edit ]

Further information: List of women artists exhibited at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition and The Woman's Building (Chicago)

The women artists at the Woman's Building included Anna Lownes,[95] Viennese painter Rosa Schweninger, and many others.[96] American composer Amy Cheney Beach was commissioned by the Board of Lady Managers of
the fair to compose a choral work (Festival Jubilate, op. 17) for the opening of the Woman's Building.[83] Women inventions, such as the Mrs Potts sad-iron system was on display.[97] Ami Mali Hicks' stencil design was
selected to adorn the frieze in the assembly room of the Women's Building.[98]

The Woman's Building included a Woman's Building Library Exhibit, which had 7,000 books — all by women. The Woman's Building Library was meant to show the cumulative contribution of the world's women to literature.[99]

Notable firsts [ edit ]

Concepts [ edit ]

Frederick Jackson Turner lectured on his Frontier thesis.[100]

The Pledge of Allegiance was first performed at the exposition by a mass of school children lined up in military fashion.[101]
Contribution to Chicago's nickname, the "Windy City". Some argue that Charles Anderson Dana of the New York Sun coined the term related to the hype of the city's promoters. Other evidence, however, suggests the term
was used as early as 1881 in relation to either Chicago's "windbag" politicians or to its weather.[4]

Commemorations [ edit ]

United States Mint offered its first commemorative coins: the Columbian Exposition quarter dollar and Columbian Exposition half dollar[102]
Woman's Building Lemaire poster
The United States Post Office Department produced its first picture postcards and Commemorative stamp set[103]

Edibles and potables [ edit ]

Cream of Wheat.
The brownie was invented by Bertha Palmer for the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition.[104]
Milton Hershey bought a European exhibitor's chocolate manufacturing equipment and added chocolate products to his caramel manufacturing business.[citation needed]
Juicy Fruit gum.[citation needed]
Quaker Oats.[citation needed]
Shredded Wheat.[105]
Pabst Blue Ribbon.[citation needed]
Peanut butter.[citation needed] Mammoth and Giant Octopus,
display at the Columbian World's Fair,
Aunt Jemima pancake mix was widely popularized by spokesperson Nancy Green's pancake cooking and story telling performances.[106]
1893
Vienna Sausage started selling its frankfurters and sausages near one of the entrances to the Midway Plaisance, just outside the Old Vienna Village. The company later became known as Vienna Beef, famously
recognized as "Chicago's Hot Dog".[107]

Inventions and manufacturing advances [ edit ]

A device that made plates for printing books in Braille, unveiled by Frank Haven Hall, who met Helen Keller and her teacher Anne Sullivan at the exhibit.[4]
Moving walkway, or travelator
The third rail giving electric power to elevated trains led directly to its first continuing US use.[108]
The "clasp locker," a clumsy slide fastener and forerunner to the zipper was demonstrated by Whitcomb L. Judson
Elongated coins (the squashed penny)
Ferris Wheel
First fully electrical kitchen including an automatic dishwasher[4]
Phosphorescent lamps (a precursor to fluorescent lamps)[4]
John T. Shayne & Company, the local Chicago furrier helped America gain respect on the world stage of manufacturing
Clark cell as a standard for measuring voltage
A first prototype of spray, by Francis Davis Millet.
Electric kitchen
The first practical electric automobile, invented by William Morrison.

Organizations [ edit ]

Congress of Mathematicians,[109] precursor to International Congress of Mathematicians

Interfaith dialogue (the Parliament of the World's Religions)

Performances [ edit ]

The poet and humorist Benjamin Franklin King, Jr. first performed at the exposition.
Bodybuilder Eugen Sandow demonstrated feats of strength, promoted by Florenz Ziegfeld.
Magician Harry Houdini and his brother Theodore performed their magic act at the Midway.

Later years [ edit ]

The exposition was one influence leading to the rise of the City Beautiful movement.[110] Results included grand buildings and fountains built around Olmstedian parks, shallow pools of Postal memorabilia
water on axis to central buildings, larger park systems, broad boulevards and parkways and, after the start of the 20th century, zoning laws and planned suburbs. Examples of the City
Beautiful movement's works include the City of Chicago, the Columbia University campus, and the National Mall in Washington D.C.

After the fair closed, J.C. Rogers, a banker from Wamego, Kansas, purchased several pieces of art that had hung in the rotunda of the U.S. Government Building. He also purchased
architectural elements, artifacts and buildings from the fair. He shipped his purchases to Wamego. Many of the items, including the artwork, were used to decorate his theater, now known
as the Columbian Theatre.

Memorabilia saved by visitors can still be purchased. Numerous books, tokens, published photographs, and well-printed admission tickets can be found. While the higher value Columbus postage issued 1893 postmark The Fisheries Building at the
commemorative stamps are expensive, the lower ones are quite common. So too are the commemorative half dollars, many of which went into circulation. at the Exposition used at the Exposition
Exposition
Although not available for purchase, The George Washington University maintains a small collection of exposition tickets for viewing and research purposes. The collection is currently
cared for by GWU's Special Collections Research Center, located in the Estelle and Melvin Gelman Library.[111]

When the exposition ended the Ferris Wheel was moved to Chicago's north side, next to an exclusive neighborhood. An unsuccessful Circuit Court action was filed against the owners of the wheel to have it moved. The wheel
stayed there until it was moved to St. Louis for the 1904 World's Fair.[57]

The Columbian Exposition has celebrated many anniversaries since the fair in 1893. The Chicago Historical Society held an exhibition to commemorate the fair. The Grand Illusions exhibition was centered around the idea that
the Columbian Exposition was made up of a series of illusions. The commemorative exhibition contained partial reconstructions, a video detailing the fair, and a catalogue similar to the one sold at the World's Fair of 1893.[112]
In 1923, notable Chicagoans
associated with the fair met again.
In popular culture [ edit ]

The Exposition is portrayed in the 2017 historical film, The Current War, concerning the competition between George Westinghouse and Thomas Edison to establish the dominant form of electricity in the United States.
1893: A World's Fair Mystery, an interactive fiction by Peter Nepstad that recreates the Exposition in detail.
Against the Day, a fictional novel that takes place during the Exposition during the first act.
The Devil in the White City, a non-fiction book intertwining the true tales of the architect behind the Exposition and serial killer H. H. Holmes.
Timebound, a time travel novel by Rysa Walker, culminates at the Exposition.
Expo: Magic of the White City, a 2005 documentary film about the Exposition by Mark Bussler.
Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth, a graphic novel set in part at the Exposition
Wonder of the Worlds, an adventure novel where Nikola Tesla, Mark Twain, and Houdini pursue Martian agents who have stolen a powerful crystal from Tesla at the Exposition.
The Will of an Eccentric, an adventure novel by Jules Verne. The Exposition is evoked with admiration in the early chapters.
The Exposition appears in the season 1 episode "The World's Columbian Exposition" of the NBC series Timeless.
The Exposition is referenced in Sufjan Stevens's song in his album Come on Feel the Illinoise, "Come On! Feel The Illinoise!", which consists of two parts. Part 1 is titled, "World's Columbian Exposition".
The Exposition plays a role in the historical novel, Owen Glen, by Ben Ames Williams.
BioShock Infinite, a 2013 video game. The floating city-state of Columbia was created at the Exposition and toured across the world to promote American exceptionalism.

See also [ edit ]

Signal of Peace
Chicago portal
Kwanusila
List of world expositions Victorian era portal

List of world's fairs

Benjamin W. Kilburn, stereoscopic view concession (see Media related to Stereo cards of the World Columbian Exposition by B.W. Kilburn at Wikimedia Commons)
H. H. Holmes, serial killer associated with the 1893 World's Fair
St. John Cantius Church (Chicago), whose main altar, as well as its matching two side altars, reputedly originate from the 1893 Columbian Exposition
Spectacle Reef Light
World's Largest Stove
World's Largest Cedar Bucket
Fairy lamp, candle sets popularized at Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee were used to illuminate an island at the Expo

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Further reading [ edit ]

Appelbaum, Stanley (1980). The Chicago World's Fair of 1893. New York: Dover
Publications, Inc. ISBN 0-486-23990-X
Arnold, C.D. Portfolio of Views: The World's Columbian Exposition. National
Chemigraph Company, Chicago & St. Louis, 1893.
Bancroft, Hubert Howe. The Book of the Fair: An Historical and Descriptive
Presentation of the World's Science, Art and Industry, As Viewed through the
Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893. New York: Bounty, 1894.
Barrett, John Patrick, Electricity at the Columbian Exposition . R.R. Donnelley,
1894.
Beck, David (2019). Unfair Labor? American Indians and the 1893 World's
Columbian Exposition in Chicago . Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
ISBN 978-1-4962-1484-3. OCLC 1100071235 .
Bertuca, David, ed. World's Columbian Exposition: A Centennial Bibliographic
Guide. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996. ISBN 0-313-26644-1
Buel, James William. The Magic City. New York: Arno Press, 1974. ISBN 0-405-
06364-4
Burg, David F. Chicago's White City of 1893. Lexington, KY: The University Press
of Kentucky, 1976. ISBN 0-8131-0140-9
Corn, Wanda M. Women Building History: Public Art at the 1893 Columbian
Exposition. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2011.
Dybwad, G. L., and Joy V. Bliss, Annotated Bibliography: World's Columbian
Exposition, Chicago 1893. Book Stops Here, 1992. ISBN 0-9631612-0-2
Eagle, Mary Kavanaugh Oldham, d. 1903, ed. The Congress of Women: Held in
the Woman's Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, U. S. A., 1893,
With Portraits, Biographies and Addresses . Chicago: Monarch Book Company,
1894.
Elliott, Maud Howe, 1854–1948, ed. Art and Handicraft in the Woman's Building of
the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893 . Chicago and New York: Rand,
McNally and Co., 1894.
Green, Christopher T. "A Stage Set for Assimilation: The Model Indian School at
the World’s Columbian Exposition" . Winterthur Portfolio. Volume 51, Number 2/3
(Summer/Autumn 2017).
Glimpses of the World's Fair: A Selection of Gems of the White City Seen Through
A Camera , Laird & Lee Publishers, Chicago: 1893, accessed February 13, 2009.
Larson, Erik. Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That
Changed America. New York: Crown, 2003. ISBN 0-375-72560-1.
Photographs of the World's Fair: an elaborate collection of photographs of the
buildings, grounds and exhibits of the World's Columbian Exposition with a special
description of The Famous Midway Plaisance. Chicago: Werner, 1894.
Reed, Christopher Robert. "All the World Is Here!" The Black Presence at White
City. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-253-21535-8
Rydell, Robert, and Carolyn Kinder Carr, eds. Revisiting the White City: American
Art at the 1893 World's Fair. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1993.
ISBN 0-937311-02-2
Wells, Ida B. The Reason Why the Colored American Is Not in the World's
Columbian Exposition: The Afro-American's Contribution to Columbian
Literature. Originally published 1893. Reprint ed., edited by Robert W. Rydell.
Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1999. ISBN 0-252-06784-3
World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.). Board of Lady Managers. List
of Books Sent by Home and Foreign Committees to the Library of the Woman's
Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893 by World's Columbian
Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.). Board of Lady Managers; edited by Edith E.
Clarke. Chicago: n. pub., ca. 1894. Bibliography.
Yandell, Enid. Three Girls in a Flat by Enid Yandell, Jean Loughborough and
Laura Hayes. Chicago: Bright, Leonard and Co., 1892. Biographical account of
women at the fair.
Fair Weather, Richard Peck, an adventure novel about a 13-year-old being away
from home for the first time and visiting the fair
Mathematical papers read at the International Mathematical Congress : held in
connection with the World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893 : International
Congress of Mathematicians (1st : 1893 : Chicago, Ill.) : Internet Archive

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