World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893

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Contemporary Articles

• The World's College of Democracy
  John Brisben Walker, Cosmopolitan (Sept. 1893).
• A First Impression
  Walter Besant, Cosmopolitan (Sept. 1893).
• Ethnology at the Exposition
  Franz Boas, Cosmopolitan (Sept, 1893).
• Chicago's Entertainment of Distinguished Visitors
  Hobart C. Chatfield-Taylor, Cosmopolitan (Sept. 1893).
• Points of Interest
  Former president Benjamin Harrison, Cosmopolitan (Sept. 1893).
• A Retrospective Forecast
  Thomas A. Janvier, Cosmopolitan (Sept. 1893).
• The World's Fair in Retrospect
  Andrew Carnegie and Edmund Mitchell, American Review of Reviews (Feb. 1894).
• What the Columbian Exposition Will Do for America
  The Century (Oct. 1892).
• The World's Fair Proves Americans to Be Above All a Practical People
  Manufacturer and Builder (Sept. 1893).
• The Columbian Exposition and American Civilization
  By Henry Van Brunt, Atlantic Monthly (May 1893).
• A City of Realized Dreams
  Catholic World (July 1893).
• Notes and Comments: A New Science at the Fair
  Warren K. Moorehead, North American Review (Oct. 1893).

Architecture at the Exposition

• White City and Capital City
  By Daniel H. Burnham, Century Magazine (Feb. 1902).
• Architecture at the World's Columbian Exposition
  By Henry Van Brunt, The Century (May 1892).
• Architecture at the World's Columbian Exposition, Part 2
  By Henry Van Brunt, The Century (July 1892).
• Architecture at the World's Columbian Exposition, Part 3
  By Henry Van Brunt, The Century (Aug. 1892).
• Architecture at the World's Columbian Exposition, Part 4
  By Henry Van Brunt, The Century (Sept. 1892).
• Architecture at the World's Columbian Exposition, Part 5
  By Henry Van Brunt, The Century (Oct. 1892).
• A Condensed Architectural History of the World's Columbian Exposition
  By Daniel H. Burnham, Manufacturer and Builder (Oct. 1893).
• The World's Fair and Landscape Gardening
  The Century (April 1893).
• The World's Fair
  Manufacturer and Builder (Nov. 1892).

Art at the Exposition

• Art at the Columbian Exposition
  By critic Ernest Knaufft, American Review of Reviews (June 1893).
• New England Art at the World's Fair
  By William Howe Downes, New England Magazine (May 1893).
• Decorative Painting at the World's Fair
  By W. Lewis Fraser, The Century (May 1893).
• The Silver Statue of Columbus at the World's Fair
  Manufacturer and Builder (June 1893).
• Painting at the Fair
  By John C. Van Dyke, The Century (July 1894).

Race Relations and the Exposition

• The Reason Why the Colored American Is Not in the World's Columbian Exposition
  A pamphlet by Ida B. Wells.
• The World's Fair
  Cleveland Gazette (April 16, 1892).
• Managers of World's Fair Should Know Afro-Americans Are Opposed to Discrimination
  Cleveland Gazette (Sept. 24, 1892).
• Our World's Fair Effort
  By Frederick Douglass and Ida B. Wells, Cleveland Gazette (March 18, 1893).
• Our World's Fair Representation
  Cleveland Gazette (March 18, 1893).
• World's Fair Watermelons
  Cleveland Gazette (July 15, 1893).
• New York Age Won't Comment on World's Fair Pamphlet
  Cleveland Gazette (July 29, 1893).
• Appendix to the Souvenir Presented to James M. Ashley
  Addresses by African American leaders on Emancipation Day, September 22, 1893, at the Art Palace in Chicago, in Columbian Hall of the World's Parliament of Religions.
• Address by Hon. Frederick Douglass
  Delivered in the Metropolitan A.M.E. church, Washington, D.C., Tuesday, January 9th, 1894.
• An Interesting Representative of a Vanishing Race
  By B. O. Flower, The Arena (July 1896), on Simon Pokagon, chief of the Pottawatomie Indians, displayed at the Chicago Exposition.

Religion and the Exposition

• Sunday at the World's Fair
  By Elizabeth Cady Stanton, North American Review (Feb. 1892).
• The Opening Month at Chicago
  American Review of Reviews (June 1893).
• The Coming World's Fair and Sunday Opening
  Manufacturer and Builder (Jan. 1892).
• Some Exposition Uses of Sunday
  By Henry Codman Potter, The Century (Nov. 1892).
• Sunday at the World's Fair
  The Century (Nov. 1892).
• Sunday in Chicago
  By Washington Gladden, The Century (Nov. 1892).
• Notes & Queries: The Exhibition and the Sunday-Closing Question
  Manufacturer and Builder (Dec. 1892).

Technology at the Exposition

• Electricity at the Fair
  Murat Halstead, Cosmopolitan (Sept. 1893).
• Transportation, Old and New
  John Brisben Walker, Cosmopolitan (Sept. 1893).
• Road-Building Exhibit at Chicago
  The Century (Nov. 1892).
• The World's Fair Tower
  Manufacturer and Builder (Feb. 1893).
• Sewerage at the World's Fair
  Manufacturer and Builder (June 1893).
• The Ferris Wheel Profitable
  Manufacturer and Builder (Oct. 1893).
• Household Inventions at the World's Fair
  Manufacturer and Builder (Oct. 1893).
• Mines and Mining Exhibit at the Chicago Fair
  Manufacturer and Builder (July 1892).
• Mineral Exhibit at the Coming World's Fair
  Manufacturer and Builder (Oct. 1892).
• Mining at the Fair
  Manufacturer and Builder (Nov. 1892).
• Public Health at the World's Fair
  Manufacturer and Builder (Nov. 1892).
• Mining at the Columbian Exposition: The State Exhibits
  Manufacturer and Builder (June 1893).
• Painting Machines Used at the World's Fair
  Manufacturer and Builder (July 1893).
• The Otto Gas Engine at the World's Fair
  Manufacturer and Builder (Dec. 1893).

Women at the Exposition

• Dress Reform at the World's Fair
  American Review of Reviews (April 1893).
• Woman's Part at the World's Fair: The Work of the Board of Lady Managers
  By Virginia C. Meredith, American Review of Reviews (May 1893).
• Woman's Part at the World's Fair: The Woman's Branch of the World's Congress Auxiliary
  By Ellen M. Henrotin, American Review of Reviews (May 1893).
• Woman's Part at the World's Fair: The Children's Building
  By Clara Doty Bates, American Review of Reviews (May 1893).
• An Outsider's View of the Woman's Exhibit
  By Ellen M. Henrotin, Cosmopolitan (Sept. 1893).

Foreign Opinion

• A First Impression
  British writer Walter Besant,Cosmopolitan (Sept. 1893).
• The Foreign Buildings
  Price Collier, Cosmopolitan (Sept. 1893).
• Foreign Folk at the Fair
  Julian Hawthorne, Cosmopolitan (Sept. 1893).
• Europe at the World's Fair: The British Section
  By Henry Trueman Wood, North American Review (Feb. 1893).
• Europe at the World's Fair: The French Section
  By Theodore Stanton, North American Review (Feb. 1893).
• Foreign Nations at the World's Fair: Canada
  By George Stewart, North American Review (May 1893).
• Europe at the World's Fair: Germany
  By W. H. Edwards, North American Review (Nov. 1892).
• The German Village at the World's Fair
  Manufacturer and Builder (Dec. 1892).
• Lecture on Haiti
  By Frederick Douglass, address delivered at the Haitian pavilion dedication ceremonies, Jan. 2, 1893.
• Ireland at the World's Fair
  By Ishbel Aberdeen, North American Review (July 1893).
• Foreign Nations at the World's Fair: Italy
  By Augustus O. Bourn, North American Review (Jan. 1893).
• Foreign Nations at the World's Fair: Japan
  By Gozo Tateno, North American Review (Jan. 1893).
• How Liberia Came to the World's Fair
  Cleveland Gazette (Sept. 16, 1893).
• Foreign Nations at the World's Fair: Persia
  By Clarence Andrews, North American Review (May 1893).
• Europe at the World's Fair: Russia
  By J. M. Crawford, North American Review (Nov. 1892).
• Spain at the World's Fair
  By Enrique Dupuy de Lome, North American Review (March 1893).
• The Point of View: The Foreign Critic and the Fair
  Scribner's Magazine (Nov. 1893).
  
  

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