Download or read book The Midway Plaisance at the 1893 World s Columbian Exposition in Chicago written by Neil Gale and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-04-14 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For one brief summer in the 1890s, it was the greatest attraction in Chicago, in all America, in fact, more visited and talked about than the world's fair it adjoined. Here, amidst Muslim mosques and Chinese pagodas, European castles and South Sea island huts, straw-hatted Americans came by the thousands to see Bedouin warriors, Egyptian belly dancers, lions that rode horseback and roller-skating bears. Over it all loomed the first giant Ferris wheel, taller than all but one downtown Chicago skyscraper.

Download or read book World s Fair Midways written by Edo McCullough and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Photographs of the World s Fair written by Werner Company and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Official Photographs of the World s Fair and Midway Plaisance written by World's Fair Art Co and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book MIDWAY PLAISANCE OF THE WORLDS written by Adolph New York Pub Wittemann and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Download or read book The Wonders of the World s Fair and Midway Plaisance written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Chicago s Grand Midway written by Norman Bolotin and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Created as a centerpiece for the Columbian Exposition of 1893, the Midway Plaisance was for one summer the world's most wondrous thoroughfare. A journey along its length immersed millions of spellbound visitors in a spectacle that merged exoticism with enlightenment and artistic crafts with dizzying technical achievement. Norman Bolotin, with Christine Laing, draws on his vast knowledge of the 1893 exposition to escort readers down the Midway. Step by step he takes you past forbidding Dahomeyans and dozens of belly dancers until, at last, you reach the colossal Ferris Wheel with cabins the size of street cars. The tour reveals the immense scale and variety of the experience in sensual detail--the thirsty crowds and the pungent aromas of exotic foods, the Libbey Glass Factory and the screams from the Ice Railway, the snake charmers and the hawkers selling a thousand souvenirs. Throughout, Bolotin details how the organizers--encouraging patrons to spend a little here and a little there--brought off an extravaganza that paid its costs and achieved every one of its goals, including profitability for the fair and immortality.

Download or read book World s Fair Midways written by Edo McCullough and published by Ayer Company Pub. This book was released on 1976-01-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Gems of the World s Fair and Midway Plaisance written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Views of the World s Fair and Midway Plaisance written by Chicago. World's Columbian Exposition, 1893 and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Views of the World s Fair and Midway Plaisance written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Gems of the World s Fair and Midway Plaisance written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Picturesque World s Fair an Elaborate Collection of Colored Views Comprising Illustrations of the Greatest Features of the World s Columbian Exposition and Midway Plaisance Architectural Artistic Historical Scenic and Ethnological written by Anonymous and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Art History Midway Plaisance and World s Columbian Exposition written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Devil In The White City written by Erik Larson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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 . . .

Download or read book All the World s a Fair written by Robert W. Rydell and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-08-16 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert W. Rydell contends that America's early world's fairs actually served to legitimate racial exploitation at home and the creation of an empire abroad. He looks in particular to the "ethnological" displays of nonwhites—set up by showmen but endorsed by prominent anthropologists—which lent scientific credibility to popular racial attitudes and helped build public support for domestic and foreign policies. Rydell's lively and thought-provoking study draws on archival records, newspaper and magazine articles, guidebooks, popular novels, and oral histories.