PRESENTATION OUTLINE
How did social, political, and economic progress contribute to a sense of American identity in the 19th century?
ARCHITECTS
-Daniel Burnham: responsible for "Great White City"
-Frederick Law Olmsted: designed landscape, including Jackson Park
-Sophie Hayden: designed Woman's Building
Daniel Burnham liked to say to city planners, "Make no little plans."
Burnham's design of the fair inspired the "city beautiful movement" that attempted to bring order to cities across the country.
FACTS
-celebrated the 400th anniversary of Columbus' arrival in America
-May 1 --> October 30 (1893)
-27 million came, 46 nations represented
-over 200 buildings, only 1 remaining
Elias Disney was a construction worker on one of the fair's buildings. He passed down stories of the exhibits and buildings to his son Walt.
Novelist Hamlin Garland was so impressed by the fair that he wrote to his parents, "Sell the cook stove if necessary and come. You must see this fair."
Author Frank L. Baum based the Emerald City in his novel the Wizard of Oz on the fair.
Quick Quiz:
Which movement was inspired by the fair's design?
a) Post-modernism
b) The city beautiful movement
c) Art noveau
d) Women's Movement
C. CITY BEAUTIFUL MOVEMENT
