Erik Larson
Exposition Universelle (1889)
Herman
Webster
Mudgett
aka
Dr. H. H. Holmes
“Murder Castle”
H.H. Holmes’ Apartment Building
H.H. Holmes’
Building
Schematics
A newspaper illustration of Holmes
in his cell -- awaiting his execution
Daniel
Hudson
Burnham
September 4, 1846 – June 1, 1912
Masonic
Temple
22 Floors
Building
Constructed: 1891-1892
Destroyed: 1939
Burnham & Root
(First Skyscraper)
Reliance Building
Burnham & Root
John Wellborn Root
Jan 10, 1850 – Jan 15, 1891
Frank Millet
Frederick Law Olmsted
Referring to Olmsted in March, 1893, Burnham said,
"An artist, he paints with lakes and wooded slopes;
with lawns and banks and forest covered hills;
with mountain sides and ocean views."
(quoted from Larson's The Devil in the White City)
Nikola Tesla
Mayor Carter Harrison
Pinkerton detective
Frank Geyer
A Newspaper illustration
of Minnie Williams
Alice and
Howard Pietzel
Ben Pietzel
Louis
Pasteur
Robert
Koch
Richard Morris Hunt
Pedestal of Statue of Liberty
Administration Building
View from the Administration Building
Charles Follen McKim
Interior Agricultural Building
George B. Post
Manufacturers and Liberal Arts building
View from the Manufacturers and Liberal Arts building
Solon Spencer Beman
Grand Central Station (Chicago)
Mines and Mining building
Henry Van Brunt
(Also designed by
Frank Maynard Howe)
Electricity building
Electricity building
Interior of Electricity Building
Interior Electricity building
Designed by Robert Swain Peabody
Louis Sullivan
Transportation Building
Transportation building
Sophia Hayden Bennett
Berthe Potter
Palmer
The Women’s Building
The Women’s Building
The Great Basin
Midway at World’s Fair
One-third scale replica
of Daniel Chester French's
Republic, which stood
in the great basin
at the exposition, Chicago.
Daniel Chester French
White City fire
First-ever Ferris wheel
at World's Colombian Exposition
80 meters
George Ferris
View from the top of the Ferris Wheel
A Fair of
Firsts…
Picture postcards
from the
US Postal Service
Stamps Sold
Milton Hershey bought a
European exhibitor's chocolate manufacturing
equipment and added chocolate products
to his caramel manufacturing business.
Elongated
Pennies