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  INDEX

  Adler & Sullivan

  “America the Beautiful”

  American Cereal Co.

  Art Institute of Chicago

  Atwood, Charles

  automobiles

  beaux arts

  Berman, Solon

  bicycles

  Board of Lady Managers

  Bloom, Sol

  Borden, Lizzie

  Burnham, Daniel

  Carnegie, Andrew

  carriages

  Centennial Exposition (Philadelphia 1876)

  Chicago Symphony Orchestra

  Chickering & Sons

  Chicago Tribune

  Chicago Times-Herald

  Civil War

  Cleveland, President Grover

  Clock Tower

  Clowry, Robert

  Cobb, Henry Ives

  Codman, Henry Sargent

  Cody, William “Buffalo Bill”

  Columbus Buggy Co.

  Congress of Women

  Corliss steam engine

  Court of Honor

  Crystal Palace (see Great Exhibition of London)

  Deere, John

  Deering, William

  Depression of 1893–1897

  Douglass, Frederick

  Duryea bros.

  Edison, Thomas

  Exposition Universelle Internationale (Paris 1889)

  Ferris Wheel

  Field, Marshall

  Frick, Henry

  Gage, Lyman Judson

  General Electric

  General Mills

  Graham, Charles

  Graham, Sylvester

  grain

  Grand Basin

  Great Exhibition of London (1851)

  Harrison, President Benjamin

  Harrison, Mayor Carter

  Heinz, Henry

  Higinbotham, Harlow

  Holmes, Dr. H.H. (see Mudgett, Herman)

  Hunt, Richard Morris

  Hutchinson, Charles

  Illinois

  Intramural Railway

  Jackson Park

  Jenney, William

  Keith, Eldridge

  Kellogg, W.K.

  Kirk, Milton

  labor relations

  livestock

  lumber

  McCormick, Cyrus

  McKim, Mead & White

  McNally, Andrew

  meat processing

  Midway Plaisance

  Morgan, J.P.

  Movable Sidewalk

  Mudgett, Herman

  Museum of Science and Industry (see Palace of Fine Arts)

  National Cash Register

  national exhibits

  France

  Germany

  Great Britain

  Italy

  Japan

  Odell, John

  Olmsted, Frederick Law

  Palace of Fine Arts

  Palmer, Bertha

  Palmer, Thomas

  Pan-American Exposition (Buffalo 1901)

  Panic of 1893

  Peabody & Stearns

  Peck, Ferdinand

  pianos

  Pinkerton, Allan

  Pope, Albert

  Post, C.W.

  Post, George

  Prendergast, Eugene

  Pullman, George

  Putnam, Frederic

  race relations

  railroads

  Ripley, Edward

  Rockefeller, John

  Root, John

  Rothschild, A.M.

  Schwab, Charles

  sewing machines

  St. Louis World’s Fair (1904)

  state exhibits

  Connecticut

  Illinois

  Kansas

  Massachusetts

  Missouri

  New York

  Pennsylvania

  Rhode Island

  steamships

  streetcars

  Swift, Gustavus

  Tesla, Nikola

  University of Chicago

  Van Brunt & Howe

  Waller, Alexander

  Walter Baker & Co.

  Waterbury Watch Co.

  Westinghouse, George

  Western Wheel Works

  W.F. McLaughlin coffee co.

  White City amusement park

  World’s Parliament of Religions

  Wright brothers

  Yerkes, Charles

  Yerkes Telescope

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  1 Among the state governors attending the Fair was William McKinley, the governor of Ohio and future president. On September 6, 1901, near the start of his second term, President McKinley visited the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, where he was shot by an assassin. McKinley died of his wounds on September 14, and his vice president Theodore Roosevelt assumed the office of president.

  2 Completed in 1892 to welcome guests to the Fair, the Lexington Hotel later acquired notoriety as the headquarters of Al Capone, who kept a suite on the fifth floor and registered as George Phillips. In 1931, Capone was arrested for tax evasion at the hotel by Eliot Ness and his fellow Treasury agents.

  3 All of the American watch companies have closed. Waterbury Watch went into receivership in 1898 and re-emerged briefly as the New England Watch Company. Ansonia began to slide after World War 1 and in 1929, went into receivership. That year the Ansonia Clock Company was sold to the Soviet Union. The Brookly
n factory was dismantled and the machinery shipped to Moscow to make alarm clocks and wall clocks for the Communists. The Waltham Watch Company closed in 1957, and Elgin Watch in 1964.

  4 The 1893 Tiffany exhibit was reassembled in 2006 at the Henry Morrison Flagler Museum in Palm Beach, Florida (Blades & Loring 2006). The items for the Palm Beach exhibit were borrowed from private collectors and museums. These include the Smithsonian Institution, Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The Tiffany name is now associated more with Charles’s second son, Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848–1933), who trained to be a painter, but whose fascination with color took him in a different direction. Using opalescent glass, Louis created the lustrous stained glass windows and lamps that will be forever associated with the Tiffany name.

  5 The introduction of high-speed embroidery machinery after 1887 had a devastating effect on the American silk towns, with factories closing and skilled workers losing their jobs. Matters came to a head in 1913 when the remaining silk workers of Paterson went on strike calling for shorter hours, job security, and higher pay. Silk workers in Pennsylvania, New York, and Connecticut joined their New Jersey comrades. The silk strike lasted six months but the workers lost the fight as the manufacturers abandoned the city and Paterson’s proud silk industry came to an end.

  6 The year of the Fair was also the birth year of Huey Pierce Long of Louisiana (1893–1935). His first job at age 17 was with N.K. Fairbank selling Cottolene. Here he learned the power of advertising and product promotion. At one of the Cottolene baking demonstrations he met Rose McConnell, a home economics teacher, whom he married in 1913. Huey Long left N.K. Fairbank and went on to become one of the most contentious politicians in America. He was elected governor and later represented Louisiana in the U.S. Senate. Accused of corruption and dictatorial tendencies, he made many enemies. In 1935, he was preparing to run against Franklin D. Roosevelt for president when, in July of that year, he was shot to death in the capitol building at Baton Rouge.

 

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