Celebrating the New World : Chicago's Columbian Exposition of 1893 / Robert Muccigrosso.
It was the most astonishing fair ever. "The grandest exposition this planet has ever witnessed," wrote one observer of the Columbian Exposition. A spectacular neoclassical "White City" designed by the nation's leading architects under the direction of Daniel Burnham; innumer...
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I.R. Dee,
©1993.
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Table of Contents:
- Setting for a celebration
- The city on the prairie
- A gathering of architects
- "You must see this fair"
- A community of ideas
- For some, a harder struggle
- Satisfying popular tastes
- Legacies of a city of dream.