The 1893 Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World’s Fair, was a showcase of innovation, culture, and technology, marking the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s voyage to the New World. The fair featured numerous attractions, products, and technological advancements, many of...
World's fairs date back to the mid-1850s and early fairs focused on trade and were famous for displays of technological inventions and advancements. One of the popular themes was transportation. The first world's fair was held in London, England, in 1851 and since that time over 100 world...
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In 1933–34 Chicago played host to its second world’s fair, the Century of Progress Exposition, organized to mark the centennial of the town charter. Conceived initially to displace the Capone crime era from the city’s image, the fair turned into a celebration of technology as the savior ...
Chicago’s status attracted the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893. The event brought 27 million visitors during its six-month operation—more than 40 percent of the United States’ total population at the time. Among the many inventions exhibited was the first Ferris wheel, made to rival th...
Callahan Lecture, “’urbs procul est, urbs magna, Chicago’: Latin Drama, Jesuit Education, and the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair,” on 22 March 2021 at 5 pm Central. The talk’s description argues that performances of Latin drama, a mainstay of a Jesuit education, took on new ...
In 1885, the world’s first skyscraper was built in Chicago as a result of rebuilding the city after the tragic fire incident. Chicago is now known as the home of skyscrapers. In 1893, the world’s all-time most influential fair, called the Columbian Exposition, was held in Chicago. The...
Burnham designed the “White City” to host the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. The response was negative. THE CHICAGO PLAN This map from Daniel Burnham’s original plan of Chicago looks decep-tively like an ordinary map today. A church in Polish town didn't have a polish priest so ...
to give everyone regardless of his or her standing, the same fair and square treatment—these are the three things that have constituted the policy of J. C. Deagan, Inc., since its inception and have built it into what it is today, the greatest concern of its kind in the world.”—De...
[An early Felsenthal & Co. ad from 1899, promoting their papier mache services, also suggests Gabe Felsenthal might have made a name for himself in Chicago by building a “big Santa Claus” for the World’s Fair in 1893] Sources: ...