Interactive Guide to the World's Columbian Exposition

Chicago, Illinois May-October 1893

Copyright 1996-2002, Bruce R. Schulman

Ported from original site at http://users.vnet.net/schulman/Columbian/columbian.html in 2019 to allow for continued access but not updated since then.

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Outline of Contents

• Background Information

  • • • Overview of the Exposition

      • Chicago in 1893

      • Admission and Transportation Prices and Statistics

      • Exposition Legislation

      • Exposition Commissions

      • The Invitation to the World

• • The World's Columbian Exposition

    • • Site

      • Midway Plaisance

      • Innovations and Legacy

  • Art & Architecture

    • • The Architects, Architecture, & Artists

      • Sculpture

      • Construction Materials and Costs

• • • The White City

• • Some Noteworthy Exhibits

• Sources of Information & Documentation, with links

• • • Sources of Information & Documentation

    • Appelbaum, Stanley . The Chicago World's Fair of 1893. New York: Dover Publications, 1980.

    • Burg, David F. Chicago's White City of 1893. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 1976.

    • Flinn, John J. (compiler). Official Guide to the World's Columbian Exhibition. Chicago: Columbian Guide Co., 1893.

    • Hancock, Scott. Web Book of The Fair, 1996.

    • Links

    • Exposition Information

• • • Internet World Exposition

    • Chicago Public Library-Special Collections Division

    • Scott Hancock's Columbian Exposition Web Book

    • World's Columbian Exposition

    • World Parliament of Religion (at the Expo)

    • Chicago Historical Society