Main entry:

Johnson, Rossiter, 1840-1931, editor.

Title & Author:

A history of the World's Columbian Exposition held in Chicago in 1893 / by authority of the Board of Directors ; edited by Rossiter Johnson.

Publication:

New York : D. Appleton and Company, 1897-1898.

Description:

4 volumes : illustrations, plan, portraits, plan ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (v. 4, pages 497-508) and index.
v. 1. Narrative. The occasion ; The inception ; Organization of the company ; Election of a Director General ; Grounds and buildings ; Finance and ways and means ; Executive Department of the Directory ; The Council of Administration ; Promotion ; Construction ; Electrical and mechanical service ; The Board of Lady Managers ; The Children's Building ; Dedication of the buildings ; Last months of construction and installation ; Bureau of Admissions and Collections ; Opening of the exposition ; Sunday closing ; Protection ; Intramural transportation ; First three months ; Special days ; Music ; August, September, and October ; Closing the exposition ; The fair as a spectacle (written expressly the work by Charles Mulford Robinson)
v. 2. Departments. Department of Publicity and Promotion ; Department of Agriculture ; Department of Live Stock ; Department of Forestry ; Department of Horticulture ; Department of Fish and Fisheries ; Department of Mines and Mining ; Department of Machinery ; Department of Transportation ; Department of Manufactures ; Department of Liberal Arts ; Department of Electricity ; Department of Ethnology ; Latin-American Bureau ; Department of Fine Arts ; The Foreign Buildings ; The State Buildings ; Post-exposition comments ; The fair as a work of art (written expressly the work by William Anderson Coffin)
v. 3. Exhibits. The agricultural exhibits ; The live-stock exhibit ; The forestry exhibit ; The horticultural exhibit ; The mining exhibit ; The machinery exhibit ; The transportation exhibit ; The exhibit of manufactures ; Leather and shoe trades exhibit ; The Krupp gun exhibit ; The exhibit of liberal arts ; The electrical exhibit ; The fine arts exhibit ; The ethnological exhibit ; The Midway Plaisance and isolated exhibits ; The exhibits by women ; United States government exhibit ; Science and the fair (written expressly the work by Thomas Corwin Mendenhall)
v. 4. Congresses. Introductory ; The Congress of Representative Women ; The Congress of Medicine and Surgery ; The Temperance Congresses ; The Congress of Commerce and Finance ; The Congress on Literature ; The Educational Congresses ; The World's Parliament of Religion ; The Art Congresses ; The Philosophical Congress ; The Congress on Evolution ; President Bonney's closing address ; The educational and moral value of the exposition (written expressly the work by Selim Hobart Peabody).
Dybwad & Bliss. Annotated bib., World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893, 895
Also available online.

Resources:
HathiTrust Digital Library, v.2
v.1
v.3
v.4

Subject:

World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
World's Columbian Exposition.

Form/genre:

World's fairs.

Holdings:

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