World's Columbian Exposition Scrapbooks

Collection

Identifier: 31/6/154

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Belle and Charles Raddin’s three scrapbooks contain clippings, images and souvenir items relating to the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, a world’s fair held at Chicago, Illinois, celebrating the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s landfall in the western hemisphere. The three scrapbooks each pertain to a certain aspect of the Exposition. One volume provides an overview of the fair and its international aspects as shown through newspaper clippings and graphic images. The second volume holds information and images pertaining to the buildings and pavilions built specifically for the Exposition. The third volume features information and images, largely newspaper clippings, pertaining to the newly constructed Art Institute of Chicago and the art collections displayed during the fair.

Dates

1893-1893
Other: Majority of material found in 1893

Creator

Raddin, Belle Alling, 1864-1930 (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

No restrictions.

Extent

2.00 Boxes

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Three scrapbooks of clippings, images, and souvenir items, compiled by residents of Evanston, Illinois, document the Chicago 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.