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	The World's Columbian Exposition The Chicago World's Fair of 1893
		The World's Columbian Exposition The Chicago World's Fair of 1893
		The World's Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago in 1893, was a landmark event in American history and culture.
		Named in honor of Christopher Columbus, the Fair was a means of celebrating the 400th anniversary of Columbus' discovery of the New World and promoting the progress of man in science, industry, and culture since that historic event.
	www.bgsu.edu /departments/acs/1890s/chicagowfair/worldsfair.html (709 words)

	World's Columbian Exposition
		In the Chicago of 1893, the Mayor was elected to a 2-year term and received a salary of $7,000.
		Chicago was gutted by a great fire in 1871 that destroyed over 2,000 acres of the built environment and caused a loss of over $196 million (in 1871 dollars).
		The exhibition truly marked the first World's fair, as it was the first opportunity for all nations to exhibit their resources and goods on neutral ground.
	users.vnet.net /schulman/Columbian/columbian.html (2755 words)

	Century of Progress Exposition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		From May 27 to November 1, 1933, the interest of a considerable part of the civilized world is focused upon 424 acres of land that lie along the shore of Lake Michigan, edging Chicago.
		Chicago's corporate birth as a village, and the dawn of an unprecedented era of discovery, invention, and development of things to effect the comfort, convenience, and welfare of mankind, are strikingly associated.
		Chicago, therefore, asked the world to join her in celebrating a century of the growth of science, and the dependence of industry on scientific research.
	hometown.aol.com /chicfair (803 words)

	1933 Worlds Fair
		In 1933 and 1934 the Chicago's World's Fair, know as "A Century of Progress" was organized as a not-for-profit corporation in January of 1928.
		Its charter was to hold a World's Fair in Chicago in 1933.
		The fair was opened on May 27, 1933, when the lights were turned on with energy from the rays of the star Arcturus.
	www.futurliner.com /fair.htm (279 words)

	Chicago World Fair 1933 Spoons
		The theme of the fair was scientific technology and progress (1833-1933), because it was hoped that new technology would pull the economy out of the depression.
		The diversity of previous fairs was changed into a very regulated look that was consistent from one exhibit to another.
		These spoons are neither expensive nor rare but because some people collect world fair memorabilia, they are slightly more costly than other silver plated spoons.
	www.geocities.com /Paris/Rue/1975/chic34.html (485 words)

	World’s Columbian Exposition 1893 Chicago World's Fair
		World's Fair via Baltimore and Ohio Railroad - The Sight-seeing Route to Chicago Through the Greatest Cities, Over the Grandest Mountains, Where Railway Travel Reaches the Sublime by Henry P. Phelps.
		Souvenir of the World's Columbian Exposition Chicago 1893.
		Souvenir Woven in the World's Columbian Exposition Chicago 1893.
	www.the-forum.com /collect/wf22.htm (1323 words)

	Ambar Arabians: Davenport Arabian Horses: Horses of the White City, part I
		The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 appears to have been the first place in the United States where Arabian horses were exhibited against each other in competition.
		The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 is mainly remembered by current Arabian horse breeders in America because of the Hamidie Society exhibit of native Arabian horses.
		The Chicago Tribune (5/2/93) reported: "...when the smiling face of the President was seen well down the line, the man who occupies the proud position of drum major swung his little short baton, and there was the wildest and most confusing escape of unmelodious sounds that have greeted the President's ear since he left Washington.
	ambararabians.com /articles/WhiteCityI.shtml (4864 words)

	Columbia World Fair -- Chicago, 1893
		The 1893 Columbus World Fair in Chicago was one of the
		The Chicago Columbian World Fair was arguably the most successful exposition of its kind and it proudly proclaimed an unlimited future.
		The exhibits presented the latest information in the fields of arts, mechanics, agriculture, liberal arts, fishing, electricity, horticulture, manufacturing, mines and mining, transportation, woman's accomplishments etc. Cultures from all over the world were represented and the fair was the equivalent of a current encyclopedia of all known knowledge.
	www.geocities.com /RodeoDrive/6232/columbian.html (650 words)

	Curriculum Connections: Exploring the Chicago World's Fair, 1893
		Chicago was a unique place in 1893 but the World's Fair brought changes.
		Read about those changes and the way Chicago was when and her family found themselves living in that city.
		Photographs from Shepp's World's Fair Photographed, Chicago and Philadelphia, 1893, and from Glimpses of the World's Fair Through a Camera, Chicago, 1893.
	www.laurielawlor.com /curriculum/exploringcurriculum.html (227 words)

	A CHICAGO WORLD'S FAIR TO REMEMBER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Suzanne L. Epstein, Ph.D. A Chicago World's Fair To Remember is the title of a color-slide-illustrated lecture by Dr.
		This lecture will focus on the splendid architecture of the Fair which, together with its exquisitely landscaped setting, exerted a major influence on city planning and public building throughout the world for almost four decades after the close of the Fair.
		Although most of these buildings, their contents and their sculptural decorations have now vanished, the many photographs and paintings made of them continue to remind us of the incredible richness and breathtaking beauty of that splendid World's Fair which attracted the attention of the entire world to Chicago in 1893.
	www.k9ape.com /suzanne/columbian00.html (173 words)

	Trip to Chicago World's Fair in 1933
		In 1933, Chicago was the architectural marvel of the world.
		But the thrill of reaching Chicago was dampened somewhat by the discovery, upon their arrival, that they had nowhere to stay.
		Toward the end of their stay in Chicago, the parents decided that there were sights to see other than those on the Fair Grounds.
	members.aol.com /chicfair/tripcox.html (2882 words)

	Gilded Age: 1892-1895: 1893 Chicago's World Fair
		At the fair's center visitors found a large reflecting pool, a fountain, and a classical statue.
		The world's first Ferris Wheel appeared on the fair's Midway, as did a zoo, a swimming pool, and a fun house.
		The fair made Chicago the nation's unofficial capital in the summer of 1893, but by the spring of 1894 the city was again principally known for its ongoing struggle between employers and workers.
	dig.lib.niu.edu /gildedage/narr7.html (1544 words)

	Memories of the Chicago World's Fair -- Century of Progress Exposition
		When you insert a penny in the machine, the fair scene appears and as one shoots the steel balls into various holes, marked as various fair buildings a section of the scene flips over to reveal a scoring number.
		What prompted me to write was that soon after the fair, she married a George Appel who was a resident of Chicago as was she.
		My grandmother actually passed away just yesterday, and I was looking through various world's fair web sites, imagining what it must have been like for her to be in such an exciting place when she was still so young.
	www.cityclicker.net /chicfair/email.html (4862 words)

	History Files - Century of Progress
		A Century of Progress International Exposition was held to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the incorporation of the City of Chicago.
		The fair was held on 427 acres (much of it landfill) on Lake Michigan, immediately south of Chicago's downtown area, from 12th Street to 39th Street (now Pershing Road).
		This extension was due in part to the fair's public popularity, but mainly as an effort to earn sufficient income to retire its debts.
	www.chicagohs.org /history/century.html (251 words)

	Chicago's World’s Fair Assignment
		’s World Fair was an exhibit of the achievement and visions of the future at the end of 19
		The main goal of this assignment is to “walk” through this “city”, watch its main attractions, get a sense of this utopian environment and attempt to read messages conveyed through the exhibit about A. the past; B. the future; C. non-Western worlds; D. urban life in general.
		Note the map of the fairgrounds. Notice how the Midway Plaisance is separated from the "official" fair in a strip of land which juts out from the grounds.
	www.csulb.edu /~dsidorov/Urban_467/World_Fair_Assignment.html (308 words)

	Amazon.com: The World's Columbian Exposition: The Chicago World's Fair of 1893: Books: Norm Bolotin,Christine ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The World's Columbian Exposition, which commemorated the 400th anniversary of Columbus's voyage to America, was held from April to October in 1893.
		Here too are the grand structures erected solely for the fair, from the golden doorway of the Transportation Building to the aquariums and ponds of the Fisheries Building, as well as details such as menu prices, the cost to rent a Kodak camera, and injury and arrest reports from the Columbian Guard.
		THE IDEA TO CREATE A WORLD'S FAIR commemorating the 400th anniversary of Columbus' voyage to America was conceived not by a single inspiration but by a great many enterprising minds throughout the world.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/025207081X?v=glance (1119 words)

	eCUIP : The Digital Library : Social Studies : The Columbian Exposition
		The World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 was a pivotal moment in Chicago's history.
		Learn more about the impact of the fair on Chicago and the world from Neil Harris and explore the fair on your own with the Interactive Map of the Fairgrounds and the Image Gallery.
		Neil Harris, a Professor of History at the University of Chicago lectures on the history, politics, and architecture of the Columbian Exposition.
	ecuip.lib.uchicago.edu /diglib/social/worldsfair_1893 (168 words)

	Nikola Tesla: Chicago World's Fair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The apparatus was in units of fair commercial size and gave to the public a view of a universal power system in which, by polyphase current, power could be transmitted great distances, and then be utilized for various purposes, including the supply of direct current.
		So it may be maintained with even more plausibility, that the best result of the Columbian Exposition of 1893 was that it removed the last serious doubt of the usefulness to mankind of the polyphase alternating current.
		The conclusive demonstration at Niagara was yet to be made, but the Wolrd's Fair clinched the fact that it would be made, and so it marked an epoch in industrial history.
	www.neuronet.pitt.edu /~bogdan/tesla/chicago.htm (354 words)

	Chicago: 1933-34 A Century Of Progress
		A Century of Progress was organized as an Illinois not-for-profit corporation in January of 1928, having for its charter purpose the holding of a World's Fair in Chicago in 1933.
		The theme of the exposition was to be the progress of civilization during the century of Chicago's corporate existence.
		This fair presented many new ideas in the use of lighting and color but did not have the architectural influence of the World's Columbian Exposition.
	cpl.lib.uic.edu /004chicago/timeline/centuryprog.html (213 words)

	Tomfolio.com: Ephemera, World's Fair: Chicago
		Hundreds of fl and white photographs depicting the 1933 Chicago World's Fair, known as the Century of Progress Exposition.
		Artists' color renditions of scenes from the 1933 Chicago World's Fair, known as the Century of Progress Exposition.
		Shepp, James W. And Daniel B., Illustrated by: B&W Photographs SHEPP'S WORLD'S FAIR PHOTOGRAPHED: Being a collection of Original Copyrighted Photographs authroized and Permitted By The Management of the World's Columbia Exposition (etc.) Publisher: Globe Bible Publishing Co. Chicago 1893.
	www.tomfolio.com /bookssub.asp?subid=1628 (1057 words)

	1893 Chicago World's Fair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		A carefully sculpted and carefully controlled vision of Swedenborgian(1) perfection, the aesthetic principle of neoclassical rationalism and scientism mirrored the wide public faith in the new Manifest Destiny, the inevitable triumph of technology over nature.
		Dubbed the Columbian Exposition, it was originally dedicated to the 400th anniversry of Columbus' voyage of discovery, though it missed by one year because of difficulties lining up exhibitors in '92.
		And the recent advances in technology, medicine, science and engineering were awe-inspiring, as sweeping in their way as the second half of this century has felt to us.
	www.guntheranderson.com /cards/oct99/wf.htm (462 words)

	Amazon.com: The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 : A Photographic Record (Dover Architectural Series): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		White City Recollections: The Illustrated 1893 Diary of a Trip to the World's Columbian Exposition by G.
		Exploring the Chicago World's Fair, 1893 by Laurie Lawlor
		The Beast of Chicago: An Account of the Life and Crimes of Herman W. Mudgett, Known to the World As H.H. Holmes, also know as : H. Howard, D. Pratt,...
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/048623990X?v=glance (747 words)

	Just the Arti-FACTS - The Century of Progress (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Crowds in the exhibit area of the fair.
		The fair was held on 427 acres (much of it landfill) on Lake Michigan, immediately south of Chicago's downtown area, from 12th Street to 39 Street (now Pershing Road).
		The fair was originally supposed to open in May 27, 1933 and close November 12 of that year, but it was reopened on May 26, 1934 due to the fair's popularity and as an effort to earn enough money to take care of its debts.
	www.chicagohs.org /AOTM/May98/may98fact4.html (250 words)

	World's Columbian Exposition: Notes and Further Reading
		The World's Columbian Exposition is a fascinating and infinitely rich subject for study, which this thesis has only begun to explore.
		Cawelti, John G. "America On Display: The World's Fairs of 1876, 1893, 1933" in The Age of Industrialism in America: Essays in Social Structure and Cultural Values.
		Rydell, Robert W. All the World's A Fair: Visions of Empire at American International Expositions, 1876-1916.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~MA96/WCE/notes.html (761 words)

	A Century of Progress: The 1933-34 Chicago World's Fair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The University of Chicago Library's Century of Progress 1933-34 World's Fair Collection, most of which is housed in the Special Collections Research Center, contains the majority of materials that were published for the fair.
		Also available is a searchable database of the Checklist of Official Publications of the Century of Progress International Exposition and Its Exhibitors, a bibliography that was produced by staff of the John Crerar Library shortly after the close of the fair.
		The Library also is thankful to the members of the University of Chicago Women's Board for their gift, given in memory of their respected member, Mrs.
	century.lib.uchicago.edu (175 words)

	Black Women at the Chicago World's Fair
		The goal of this discussion is to help you identify and understand the political interests, problems, and activities of African American women before they had the vote.
		Read the student essay and some of the documents about African-American Women at the Chicago World's Fair.
		Failure to include African-American exhibits at the Chicago World's Fair.
	hyper.vcsun.org /HyperNews/nfernandez/get/H349chicago.html (612 words)

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	Chicago World's Fair - Community & Social Services - Park Rdg, IL, 60068-2885 - Citysearch
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	eBay - 1893 chicago world ..., Historical Memorabilia, Silver items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Collectibles > Historical Memorabilia > Fairs, Expositions > Worlds Fairs > 1893 Chicago
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		EXPLORING THE CHICAGO WORLD'S FAIR 1893 American 1st
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	African-American Women and the Chicago World's Fair, Document List
		Document 1: "Women at the World's Fair; The Lady Managers Explain Their Attitude.
		Document 2: "The Women and the World's Fair," 24 October 1891
		Document 5: "The World's Fair," 16 April 1892
	womhist.binghamton.edu /ibw/doclist.htm (368 words)

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