This is from the Chicago Tribune, which did not approve of a lot of the Exhibition at the time, considering much of it "vulgar", especially people like"Little Egypt" and her "shimmy dance"( a big crowd pleaser for the common sort of person, of course--but I remember reading about how offended a Canadian doctor who visited was by this display of a woman " shaking her pelvic and lumbar regions").
Sunday, October 27, 2013
Photos from the Columbian Exhibition of 1893
This is not some Centennial of anything but I thought this recent time-vault revelation of photos from the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 was pretty fascinating.
This is from the Chicago Tribune, which did not approve of a lot of the Exhibition at the time, considering much of it "vulgar", especially people like"Little Egypt" and her "shimmy dance"( a big crowd pleaser for the common sort of person, of course--but I remember reading about how offended a Canadian doctor who visited was by this display of a woman " shaking her pelvic and lumbar regions").
Richard Lariviere, President and CEO of the
Field Museum introduces the show "Opening the Vaults: Wonders of the
1893 World's Fair." — Nancy Stone/Chicago Tribune, Oct. 22, 2013
A photo of a group of Labrador Inuits who
left the fair due to poor conditions false promises and started their
own exhibit outside the gates. — Nancy Stone/Chicago Tribune, Oct. 22, 2013
A Wayang Golek Puppet from Java Indonesia. — Nancy Stone/Chicago Tribune, Oct. 22, 2013
The first ragtime music was played was at the World's Fair of 1893. — Nancy Stone/Chicago Tribune, Oct. 22, 2013
A student from Leif Ericson Elementary Scholastic Academy checks out a skeleton of an Indian Gavial. — Nancy Stone/Chicago Tribune, Oct. 22, 2013
An African lion is a big hit with students from Leif Ericson Elementary Scholastic Academy. — Nancy Stone/Chicago Tribune, Oct. 22, 2013
Students, Trashonna Cannon and Jamaica
Wright, both 9, from Leif Ericson Elementary Scholastic Academy, look at
an exhibit of an array of grains, wood fibers, oils, resins with Anne
Marie Fayer, an educator with the Field Museum. — Nancy Stone/Chicago Tribune, Oct. 22, 2013
Jamaica Wright, 9, from Leif Ericson Elementary Scholastic Academy checks out a skirt made from pine needles. — Nancy Stone/Chicago Tribune, Oct. 22, 2013
Jim Holstein, collection manager of
meteorites and mineralogy at the Field Museum talks with Simone Leflore,
9, from Leif Ericson Elementary Scholastic Academy and tells her about
the Madrepore marble that they are standing over and touching. — Nancy Stone/Chicago Tribune, Oct. 22, 2013
Students from Leif Ericson Elementary
Scholastic Academy with Field Museum Anthropolgist Alaka Wali, look at
an exhibit on a Peruvian mummy. — Nancy Stone/Chicago Tribune, Oct. 22, 2013
Students from Leif Ericson Elementary
Scholastic Academy with Field Museum Anthropolgist Alaka Wali, look at
an exhibit on a Peruvian mummy. — Nancy Stone/Chicago Tribune, Oct. 22, 2013
A student from Leif Ericson Elementary Scholastic Academy looks at part of a gamelon set from Indonesia on display. — Nancy Stone/Chicago Tribune, Oct. 22, 2013
Students from Leif Ericson Elementary
Scholastic Academy play an interactive electronic gamelon on that is
part of an exhibit featuring different instruments that make up a
gamelon from Indonesia that was on display the World's Fair. — Nancy Stone/Chicago Tribune, Oct. 22, 2013
A bat skull and bones that was on display at the World's Fair. — Nancy Stone/Chicago Tribune, Oct. 22, 2013
A Brontothere skull collected by Elmer Riggs
who was hired by the museum after the fair to collect fossils for the
new museum. — Nancy Stone/Chicago Tribune, Oct. 22, 2013
A photo of a group of Labrador Inuits who
left the fair due to poor conditions and false promises and started
their own exhibit outside the gates. — Nancy Stone/Chicago Tribune, Oct. 22, 2013
A case full of an array of oils, resins, wood and fibers on display at the fair. — Nancy Stone/Chicago Tribune, Oct. 22, 2013
Togeng (theatrical character mask) on display in the exhibit on the 1893 World's Fair. — Nancy Stone/Chicago Tribune, Oct. 22, 2013
"Opening the Vaults: Wonders of the 1893 World's Fair" is opening at the Field Museum in Chicago. — Nancy Stone/Chicago Tribune, Oct. 22, 2013
A Peruvian mummy that was X-Rayed by the
Field museum and now as part of the exhibit has an interactive
electronic display that one can manipulate to see the skeleton and some
of the artifacts inside. — Nancy Stone/Chicago Tribune, Oct. 22, 2013
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This is from the Chicago Tribune, which did not approve of a lot of the Exhibition at the time, considering much of it "vulgar", especially people like"Little Egypt" and her "shimmy dance"( a big crowd pleaser for the common sort of person, of course--but I remember reading about how offended a Canadian doctor who visited was by this display of a woman " shaking her pelvic and lumbar regions").
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