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").

Photos: Field Museum's 'Wonders of the 1893 World's Fair' exhibit

120 years after the World's Fair, the Field Museum is opening its hidden collections to display artifacts and specimens from the fair.




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