Actualités ac138/1893
World's Columbian Exposition Collection
Wed, 22 Dec 2021 23:02:00 GMT
Within this collection are various materials pertaining to all aspects of the Chicago fair of 1893, from initial preparations to specific buildings and exhibitors. It includes photographs of the ...
The 1893 Anglo-Ndebele War
Tue, 04 Dec 2018 05:16:00 GMT
The 1893 Anglo-Ndebele War or War of dispossession was a war between the British South Africa Company and the Ndebele under King Lobengula. The Ndebele were defeated and Lobengula fled his capital in ...
John Tyndall (1820-1893)
Mon, 20 May 2024 03:36:00 GMT
At school I was slow to grasp the point of algebra. So, it was Mr Yelland, the pottery teacher, rather than the maths master, who first showed me a convincing proof of Pythagoras’s theorem with a pair ...
Wilfred Owen (1893 - 1918)
Sun, 16 Aug 2020 00:02:00 GMT
Wilfred Edward Salter Owen was born 18 March 1893 in Oswestry, Shropshire. After school he became a teaching assistant and in 1913 went to France for two years to work as a language tutor.
A petition: Women’s Suffrage Petition
Fri, 05 Apr 2024 00:16:00 GMT
By 1893 she was at the forefront of the campaign resulting in the signing of the suffrage petition and the passing of the Electoral Act on 19 September. The granting of the vote to women in New ...
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Sun, 16 Aug 2020 16:55:00 GMT
By 1887, he was conducting his own music to great acclaim and producing such works as the Sixth Symphony, the 'Pathetique' in 1893 (the year of his death) and the ballets The Sleeping Beauty (1890) ...
Duryea Motor Carriage, 1893
Thu, 22 Sep 2016 17:56:00 GMT
This experimental vehicle is one of the earliest American-made automobiles. On September 21, 1893, Frank Duryea road-tested the vehicle – a second-hand carriage with a gasoline engine – in Springfield ...
Chicago in the 1890s
Thu, 06 Jun 2024 11:41:00 GMT
The World's Columbian Exposition was held in 1893. "Prairie-school" architects like Frank Lloyd Wright began to acquire a measure of fame. Novels like Sister Carrie were inspired by the city's ...
Guide to the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 Collection 1892-1930
Thu, 20 Apr 2023 08:58:00 GMT
Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center University of Chicago Library 1100 East 57th Street Chicago, Illinois 60637 U.S.A. Abstract: The World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 Collection ...
The World's Columbian Exposition (1893)
Mon, 06 May 2019 01:00:00 GMT
The mile-long Midway at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago was the closest an amusement seeker came to a sure thing in 1893. Strolling along, one could admire the belly dancing of Fahreda ...
World's Columbian Exposition of 1893
Mon, 17 Aug 2020 02:05:00 GMT
America hosted the World's Fair of 1893 as a celebration of Columbus' voyage to the continent four hundred (and one) years earlier. Chicago beat out New York, St. Louis and Washington, D.C. for ...