Author: C. Dean (of Chicago.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
The Chicago World's Fair of 1893
Author: Stanley AppelbaumPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486130630
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
128 rare, vintage photographs: 200 buildings — 79 of foreign governments, 38 of U.S. states — the original ferris wheel, first midway, Edison's kinetoscope, much more. 128 black-and-white photographs. Captions. Map. Index.
The Devil In The White City
Author: Erik LarsonPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1409044602
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
'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 . . .
The World's Fair City and Her Enterprising Sons
Author: C. Dean (of Chicago.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Spectacle in the White City
Author: Stanley AppelbaumPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 1606600060
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
A splendid tribute to The World's Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago in 1893, this hardcover volume offers a grand photographic record, printed in a sweeping landscape format. Includes essays and captions by a noted historian. 128 photographs.
The Chicago World's Fair of 1893
Author: Stanley AppelbaumPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486239903
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Offers text and 128 rare, vintage photographs of two hundred buildings and includes coverage of the original ferris wheel, the first midway, and Edison’s kinetoscope.
All the World's a Fair
Author: Robert W. RydellPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226923258
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
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.
The Great American Fair
Author: Reid BadgerPublisher: Taylor Trade Publications
ISBN: 9780882294483
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
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1982 World's Fair Transportation System Evaluation
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Catalogue of the Public Documents of the ... Congress and of All Departments of the Government of the United States for the Period from ... to ...
Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 3208
Book Description
Author: Theodore L. Flood