Women's Building at the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893
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Title
Women's Building at the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893
Description
These images are of the Woman's Building at the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893. The images are from the book Art and Handicraft in the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition Chicago, 1893. The first is a photograph of the Woman's Building from the Exposition. This building was the location of various exhibits of wares created by women, that were not allowed in other parts of the Exposition. As Jeanne Madeline Wiemann remarks in The Fair Women, "The Woman's Building therefore was necessary as a place to exhibit work done by women, who were not being fairly treated elsewhere (260).
The second photograph is of some of the prominent members of the Board of Lady managers that was created for the Exposition. While the separation from the main Board of Managers and the name of the board was not satisfactory to most women, women in this Exposition received much more say than in the Centennial exhibition.
Maddie Arnold-Scerbo
The second photograph is of some of the prominent members of the Board of Lady managers that was created for the Exposition. While the separation from the main Board of Managers and the name of the board was not satisfactory to most women, women in this Exposition received much more say than in the Centennial exhibition.
Maddie Arnold-Scerbo
Creator
Sophia G. Hayden
Source
Art and Handicraft in the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition Chicago, 1893 Edited by Maud Howe Elliot
Publisher
Chicago and New York: Rand, McNally & Company, 1894.
Date
1893
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Citation
Sophia G. Hayden, “Women's Building at the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893,” Materiality and Spectacle 2015, accessed February 2, 2026, https://ds-omeka.haverford.edu/materiality-and-spectacle-2015/items/show/59.