Cossacks at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair

2019 ◽  
pp. 99-111
Author(s):  
Andrey Izyumov ◽  
Ekaterina Luchinina ◽  
Alexey Pokazeev ◽  
Alexanr Soklakov
Keyword(s):  
World's Fair ◽  
Chicago World's Fair

scholarly journals Black Women in the ‘White City’

1974 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 319-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Massa
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
World's Fair ◽  
Hundredth Anniversary ◽  
History Of ◽  
Chicago World's Fair

The scope of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893, which celebrated, albeit a year late, the four hundredth anniversary of Columbus's discovery of America, ranged over many centuries, numerous nations and almost every type of human achievement. The 27 million people who came to the five months long Fair were able to see Grace Darling's boat or Spanish galleons of Columbus's time; they could follow the history of transport from coracles to cars; they could see the latest in Krupp's cannon and Bell's telephone in a classically styled Machinery Hall six times the size of the Coliseum. With the exception of Louis Sullivan's golden Transportation Pavilion, the buildings which housed the Fair, covered uniformly with staff, composed a classical ‘White City’, grouped round a complex of lagoons and fountains on Chicago's Lake Front.

Conclusion

2019 ◽  
pp. 235-248
Author(s):  
David Walker
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
World's Fair ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Lds Church ◽  
Bear River ◽  
Chicago World's Fair

This chapter shows how LDS officials and businessmen continuously found ways to bend railroads to their benefits or reshape Mormons institutions in order to flourish in their networks, such as the irrigation display at the Chicago World’s Fair. Regardless of the failure of the Bear River Irrigation company, it was proof of Mormon fortitude through cultural and locative righteousness. The company’s resources were reorganized by Mormon businessmen, and Mormons effectively promoted the LDS Church in other venues at World’s Fair. On the other hand, railroad barons’ contracts provided uninterrupted freighting, lucrative receipts of transcontinental tourism, and friendships with Mormon businessmen who intervened on their behalf in Congress. The results of their efforts were the combined naturalizing and mainlining of Mormonism, as tourists were convinced that they could learn from the Mormons to cultivate western lands and define religion in the modern west.

Women and the Language of Statistics in Late-Nineteenth-Century France

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Hélène Périvier ◽  
Rebecca Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Economy ◽  
World's Fair ◽  
Feminist Movement ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Analysis ◽  
French Economy ◽  
Nineteenth Century France ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Chicago World's Fair

This article considers how women adopted a “scientific” statistical language at the end of the nineteenth century to draw attention to their role in the moral and social economy. It explores in particular the messages contained in La Statistique générale de la femme française, a series of eighteen murals that the moderate feminist Marie Pégard sent for exhibition at the Woman’s Building at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893. The article begins by considering the place statistics held in France in the final decades of the century within the context of universal exhibitions. It then examines Pégard’s choice of quantified categories of social analysis to convey a sustained argument about the comparative weight of women in a modernizing French economy. The article seeks to understand how contemporaries read and interpreted the graphs, and how this mode of rendering visible the issue of women’s work played into the politics of an emerging feminist movement.

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