Chicago S 1893 World S Fair

Author : Joseph M. Di Cola,David Stone
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780738594415

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Chicago's 1893 World's Fair by Joseph M. Di Cola,David Stone Pdf

What came to be known as the World s Columbian Exposition was planned to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus s 1492 landfall in the New World. Chicago beat out New York City, St. Louis, Missouri, and Washington, DC, in its bid as host a coup for the Windy City. The site finally selected for the fair was Jackson Park, originally designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, a marshy area covered with dense, wild vegetation. Daniel H. Burnham and John W. Root were selected as chief architects, creating the famous White City. The fair featured several different thematic areas: the Great Buildings, Foreign Buildings, State Buildings, and the Midway Plaisance, a nearly mile-long area that featured exotic exhibits. The exposition also showcased the world s first Ferris Wheel and introduced fairgoers to new sensations like Cracker Jack, Pabst Beer, and ragtime music. The World s Columbian Exposition, covering 633 acres, opened on May 1, 1893. Admission prices were 50cents for adults, 25cents for children under 12 years of age, and free for children under six. Unfortunately, by 1896, most of the fair s buildings had been removed or destroyed, but this collection takes readers on a tour of the grounds as they looked in 1893."

Author : Stanley Appelbaum
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486130637

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The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 by Stanley Appelbaum Pdf

128 rare, vintage photographs: 200 buildings — 79 of foreign governments, 38 of U.S. states — the original ferris wheel, first midway, Edison's kinetoscope, much more. 128 black-and-white photographs. Captions. Map. Index.

Author : Trumbull White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : World's Columbian Exposition
ISBN : HARVARD:32044036964724

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The World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893 by Trumbull White Pdf

Author : Stanley Appelbaum,Peter Bacon Hales
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781606600061

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Spectacle in the White City by Stanley Appelbaum,Peter Bacon Hales Pdf

A splendid tribute to The World's Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago in 1893, this hardcover volume offers a grand photographic record, printed in a sweeping landscape format. Includes essays and captions by a noted historian. 128 photographs.

Author : George S. Miles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Exhibitions
ISBN : UCAL:B4261064

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World's Fairs from London 1851 to Chicago 1893 ... by George S. Miles Pdf

Author : Reid Larkin Neilson,Reid Neilson
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195384031

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Exhibiting Mormonism by Reid Larkin Neilson,Reid Neilson Pdf

Reid L. Neilson provides the first examination of Latter-day Saint participation in the 1893 Columbian Exposition, which was a watershed moment in the Mormon migration to the American mainstream and its leadership's discovery of public relations efforts, and marked the dramatic reengagement of the LDS Church with the outside, non-Mormon world after decades of isolation in America's Great Basin desert.

Author : Trumbull White,William Igleheart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Exhibitions
ISBN : UIUC:30112063014853

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The World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893 by Trumbull White,William Igleheart Pdf

Author : Rebecca S. Graff
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813057552

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Disposing of Modernity by Rebecca S. Graff Pdf

Through archaeological and archival research from sites associated with the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Disposing of Modernity explores the changing world of urban America at the turn of the twentieth century. Featuring excavations of trash deposited during the fair, Rebecca Graff’s first-of-its-kind study reveals changing consumer patterns, notions of domesticity and progress, and anxieties about the modernization of society. Graff examines artifacts, architecture, and written records from the 1893 fair’s Ohio Building, which was used as a clubhouse for fairgoers in Jackson Park, and the Charnley-Persky House, an aesthetically modern city residence designed by Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright. Many of the items she uncovers were products that first debuted at world’s fairs, and materials such as mineral water bottles, cheese containers, dentures, and dinnerware illustrate how fairs created markets for new goods and influenced consumer practices. Graff discusses how the fair’s ephemeral nature gave it transformative power in Chicago society, and she connects its accompanying “conspicuous disposal” habits to today’s waste disposal regimes. Reflecting on the planning of the Obama Presidential Center at the site of the Chicago World’s Fair, she draws attention to the ways the historical trends documented here continue in the present. Published in cooperation with the Society for Historical Archaeology

Author : Moses Purnell Handy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Art
ISBN : UCAL:$B36295

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World's Columbian Exposition, 1893 by Moses Purnell Handy Pdf

Author : Daniel Hudson Burnham,Francis Davis Millet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : World's Columbian Exposition
ISBN : UOM:39015009217616

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World's Columbian Exposition by Daniel Hudson Burnham,Francis Davis Millet Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Exhibitions
ISBN : LCCN:50028646

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World's Fairs from London 1851 to Chicago 1893 by Anonim Pdf

Chiefly a guide to the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. Includes a page or two each on previous fairs: London, 1851; Dublin, 1853; New York, 1853; Munich, 1854; Paris, 1855; London, 1862; Paris, 1867; Vienna, 1873; Philadelphia, 1876; Paris, 1878; Sydney, 1879; Melbourne, 1880; and Paris, 1889.

Author : Ida B. Wells-Barnett,Robert W. Rydell
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 0252067843

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The Reason why the Colored American is Not in the World's Columbian Exposition by Ida B. Wells-Barnett,Robert W. Rydell Pdf

Expressly intended to demonstrate America's national progress toward utopia, the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago pointedly excluded the contributions of African Americans. For them, being left outside the gates of the "White City" merely underscored a more general exclusion from America's bright future. Exhibits at the fair were controlled by all-white committees, and those that acknowledged African Americans at all, such as the famous Aunt Jemima pancake exhibit, ridiculed and denigrated them. Many African Americans saw the racist policies of the World's Columbian Exposition as mirroring, framing, and reinforcing the larger horrors confronting blacks throughout the United States, where white supremacy meant segregation, second-class citizenship, and sometimes mob violence and lynching. In response to the politics of exclusion that governed the fair, and of its larger implications, several prominent African Americans resolved to publish a pamphlet that would catalog the achievements of African Americans since the abolition of slavery while articulating the persistent political economy of apartheid in the American South. The authors of this remarkable document included the antilynching crusader Ida B. Wells, the former slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass, the educator Irvine Garland Penn, and the lawyer and newspaper publisher Ferdinand L. Barnett. An eloquent statement of protest and pride, The Reason Why the Colored American Is Not in the World's Columbian Exposition reminds us that struggles over cultural representation are nothing new in American life. Robert Rydell's introduction provides insight into the sometimes conflicting strategies employed by African Americans as they strove to represent themselves at a cultural event that was widely regarded as a defining moment in American history.

Author : Neil Harris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015047879179

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Grand Illusions by Neil Harris Pdf

An analysis of every facet of Chicago's 1893 World's Columbian Exposition illustrated with hundreds of cultural artifacts.

Author : David J. Bertuca,Donald K. Hartman,Susan Neumeister
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313266447

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The World's Columbian Exposition by David J. Bertuca,Donald K. Hartman,Susan Neumeister Pdf

In 1893, the World's Columbian Exposition had a profound impact on urban planning and the Beaux-Arts period of American architecture. The fair introduced the Ferris Wheel, Cracker Jacks, and fiberglass. Yet today, except for one building and a grassy park, all that remains is the legacy of printed material dispersed throughout the country. This reference guide, intended for historians, librarians, and collectors, provides access to that legacy. The introduction summarizes the Exposition's influence. The bibliography, arranged to allow researchers to browse topics broadly, describes over 6,000 books, journal articles, and other materials. A directory of special collections of fair-related materials is also included. Newspaper and magazine articles, books, dissertations, drawings, photographs, maps, letters, documents, and collections of memorabilia—these provide the enduring heritage of the fair. This guide provides information on all aspects of that heritage. In addition to the bibilography itself, an extensive introduction discusses the influence the fair has had on America. Illustrations provide a visual portrayal of the fair. A directory of special collections of fair-related materials provides an inventory of each collection, along with addresses and telephone numbers. This book is the only comprehensive reference guide to the World's Columbian Exposition.

Author : Erik Larson
Publisher : Random House
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781409044604

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The Devil In The White City by Erik Larson Pdf

'An irresistible page-turner that reads like the most compelling, sleep defying fiction' TIME OUT One was an architect. The other a serial killer. This is the incredible story of these two men and their realization of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893, and its amazing 'White City'; one of the wonders of the world. The architect was Daniel H. Burnham, the driving force behind the White City, the massive, visionary landscape of white buildings set in a wonderland of canals and gardens. The killer was H. H. Holmes, a handsome doctor with striking blue eyes. He used the attraction of the great fair - and his own devilish charms - to lure scores of young women to their deaths. While Burnham overcame politics, infighting, personality clashes and Chicago's infamous weather to transform the swamps of Jackson Park into the greatest show on Earth, Holmes built his own edifice just west of the fairground. He called it the World's Fair Hotel. In reality it was a torture palace, a gas chamber, a crematorium. These two disparate but driven men are brought to life in this mesmerizing, murderous tale of the legendary Fair that transformed America and set it on course for the twentieth century . . .