The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893 (1893) (14593150288)

Identifier: worldscolumbiane02whit (find matches)
Title: The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: White, Trumbull, 1868-1941 Igleheart, William, (from old catalog) joint author
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: Philadelphia and St. Louis, P.W. Ziegler & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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I.ION—before: obewsk. (IVaagen.) scapes. For centuries powerful Lake Michigan had met no ob-stacle in the attack, and had cast up drift-wood with the sand, untilthere was no semblance of the black soil of the Illinois prairies toindicate fertility. Among the sand dunes were sink-holes of quick-sand and of swamp, and the careless pedestrian might find himselfin actual daneer in the course of a walk across the tract. How different is all this now ! Where once was rank grass ofthe marshes is to be seen the most luxuriant of green turf Wherethe path was rough with the rise and fall of the shifting sand THE SITE AND HOW TO REACH IT. 63 are level parkways, vistas of sylvan beauty, terraces of most artis-tic conception. Where was then a rough and wave-beaten shore,
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MOUXTAIX GOAT—ON BRIDGES. (A. P. Proctov.) Strewn with the refuse of a generations drift, is now a sea-wall ofstone, a pavement of the same unyielding material, and the beautyof cleanness and purity. Where was then a marsh, whose stagnantwaters were divided but by hummocks of mud and sand, are nowthe clear flowing waters of the beautiful system of lagoons, and,rising out of them, the walls of a city of white palaces, the arch-itectural triumph of modern history. What of the minds that planned and the hands that worked toaccomplish this work of pride ? The creation of the design and plan for the Fair, thus includingthe location of all the buildinors, was assio^ned to the men who hadproven by past work their capacity for such a task. Messrs. Burn-ham & Root, one of the largest and most prominent firms of arch-itects in Chicago, and Frederic Law Olmstead, the great landscapearchitect of Boston, were thus chosen. The oreneral outlines of thegrounds were decided upon, and the labor o