Columbian Exposition of 1893
ONLINE BOOKS:
The International Folk-lore Congress of the World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago, July, 1893 By Helen Wheeler Bassett, Frederick Starr (1898)
The World’s Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893 By Trumbull White, William Igleheart (1893)
The White City: The historical, biographical and philanthropical record of Illinois By John Moses, Paul Selby (1893)
Harper’s Chicago and the World’s Fair: The Chapters on the Exposition Being Collated from Official Sources and Approved by the Department of Publicity and Promotion of the World’s Columbian Exposition By Julian Ralph (1892)
World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Ill., 1893
By United States. World’s Columbian Commission. Committee on Awards, World’s Columbian Commission (1901)
Picturesque Chicago and guide to the World’s fair, Contributor Religious herald (1893)
The Historical World’s Columbian Exposition and Chicago guide: iIllustrated from official drawings
By Horace Hills Morgan (1892)
Official guide to the World’s Columbian exposition …By John Joseph Flinn, Compiled by John Joseph Flinn (1893)
Chicago of Today. The Metropolis of the West. The Nation’s Choice for the Columbian Exposition (1891)
The Columbian Ode by Harriet Monroe (Official poem of the Fair) 1893
Fiction Set at the Fair:
Against Odds: A Romance of the Midway Plaisance by Lawrence L. Lynch (1894)
Can you please tell me anything about the source of the color picture of the fair used on this page. I am researching the construction of a large stone monolith that was quarried in northern Wisconsin by Frederick Prentice and intended to be sent to Chicago for the fair. The stone obelisk was 110 feet tall and was successfully quarried but never reached the fair because of financial issues related to shipping it. Might this picture be an architect’s concept of what the monolith would have looked like in place? I have not seen the obelisk that appears in the left foreground of this picture in any of the photographs of the fair that I have found.
Martin Gross
January 20, 2012 at 6:30 pm