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Three exhibits for YIVO's centennial celebration showcase the breadth of the institute's collection and its own history.
This story is the first of three about the building housing the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry in Jackson Park.
Whalebacks were invented and designed by Capt. Alexander McDougall (1845-1923), a Scottish immigrant and industrialist.
APRIL, the 2025 World Expo opened in Osaka, Japan. With an estimated US$66 billion price tag and unique setting on an ...
Eight diamonds have been stolen from the Kimberly Diamond Mining Exhibit! ... your help - how can you refuse? Besides, you've been dying to see what has been called the wonder of the age - Chicago's ...
An illustration titled ‘A Section Of The Horticultural Exhibit At The Worlds Fair As It Now Looks,’ published on Sunday, January 29, 1893, in the Inter-Ocean Illustrated Supplement as part of ...
CBS Chicago. Exhibit of Sept. 11, 1893, speech on tolerance on display at Art Institute. Posted: ... World's oldest woman who credited long life to two simple things dies aged 116.
HAWAII STATE ARCHIVES. Chicago’s 1893 World’s Fair featured a circular exhibit — 50 feet high and 400 feet in circumference — of an erupting Kilauea Volcano.
Check out Ronald Bourgeault's appraisal of a 1893 Tiffany & Co. World’s Fair Exhibition vase in Vintage Madison 2024, Hour 1. Antiques Roadshow is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS ...
In 1893 Nikola Tesla and Westinghouse’s alternating current powered Chicago’s World Columbian Exposition leading to the use of electricity in homes and businesses. This advance catapulted the ...
John McCaa: During the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893, Black leaders Booker T. Washington and Frederick Douglass might have met. There’s no record of their ...