Julie K. Brown
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262026574
- eISBN:
- 9780262258630
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262026574.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
International expositions, with their massive assembling of exhibits and audiences, were the media events of their time. In transmitting a new culture of visibility that merged information, ...
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International expositions, with their massive assembling of exhibits and audiences, were the media events of their time. In transmitting a new culture of visibility that merged information, entertainment, and commerce, they provided a unique opportunity for the public to become aware of various social and technological advances. This book offers an examination of how international expositions, through their exhibits and infrastructures, sought to demonstrate innovations in applied health and medical practice. It investigates not only how exhibits translated health and medical information into visual form but also how exposition sites in urban settings (an exposition was “a city within a city” sometimes in conflict with municipal authorities) provided emergency medical treatment, access to safe water, and protection against infectious diseases. The book looks at four expositions held in Philadelphia, Chicago, Buffalo, and St. Louis between 1876 and 1904, spanning the Gilded Age and the early reform years of the Progressive Era. It describes the 1904 St. Louis exposition in particular detail, looking closely at the sites and services as well as selected exhibits (including a working model playground, live X-ray demonstrations, and a rescue film by the U.S. Navy). Many illustrations demonstrate the role that these exhibitions played in framing and shaping health issues for their audiences.Less
International expositions, with their massive assembling of exhibits and audiences, were the media events of their time. In transmitting a new culture of visibility that merged information, entertainment, and commerce, they provided a unique opportunity for the public to become aware of various social and technological advances. This book offers an examination of how international expositions, through their exhibits and infrastructures, sought to demonstrate innovations in applied health and medical practice. It investigates not only how exhibits translated health and medical information into visual form but also how exposition sites in urban settings (an exposition was “a city within a city” sometimes in conflict with municipal authorities) provided emergency medical treatment, access to safe water, and protection against infectious diseases. The book looks at four expositions held in Philadelphia, Chicago, Buffalo, and St. Louis between 1876 and 1904, spanning the Gilded Age and the early reform years of the Progressive Era. It describes the 1904 St. Louis exposition in particular detail, looking closely at the sites and services as well as selected exhibits (including a working model playground, live X-ray demonstrations, and a rescue film by the U.S. Navy). Many illustrations demonstrate the role that these exhibitions played in framing and shaping health issues for their audiences.
Miriam R. Levin
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262013987
- eISBN:
- 9780262265935
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262013987.003.0011
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
This chapter examines the activities of three generations of men who inaugurated, developed, and extended this modern culture of change in Paris over the latter half of the nineteenth century and the ...
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This chapter examines the activities of three generations of men who inaugurated, developed, and extended this modern culture of change in Paris over the latter half of the nineteenth century and the first fourteen years of the twentieth. These politicians, administrators, industrialists, social scientists architects, and engineers, over the course of two different political systems, created a vision of a scientifically administrated future and sought to implement it through a congeries of commissions, institutions, agencies, and organizations concerned with urban planning, international expositions, and museums.Less
This chapter examines the activities of three generations of men who inaugurated, developed, and extended this modern culture of change in Paris over the latter half of the nineteenth century and the first fourteen years of the twentieth. These politicians, administrators, industrialists, social scientists architects, and engineers, over the course of two different political systems, created a vision of a scientifically administrated future and sought to implement it through a congeries of commissions, institutions, agencies, and organizations concerned with urban planning, international expositions, and museums.
Leta E. Miller
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520268913
- eISBN:
- 9780520950092
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520268913.003.0010
- Subject:
- Music, History, American
In the first half of the twentieth century, San Francisco hosted two major world fairs: in 1915 and in 1939–40. A comparison of musical programming for these two enormous undertakings highlights ...
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In the first half of the twentieth century, San Francisco hosted two major world fairs: in 1915 and in 1939–40. A comparison of musical programming for these two enormous undertakings highlights changes in artistic taste and expression prompted, in part, by a new social awareness and an increased attention to diversity. Both fairs marked the end of difficult periods in city's history while nominally celebrating massive engineering feats. The Panama–Pacific International Exposition—February 20 to December 4, 1915—came at the end of the city's recovery from its most devastating local catastrophe, the quake and fires of 1906; yet officially it commemorated the opening of the Panama Canal. The Golden Gate International Exposition, which ran from February 18 to October 29, 1939, was widely viewed as a partial cure for the economic problems of the Depression; yet officially it heralded the completion of the Golden Gate and San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridges.Less
In the first half of the twentieth century, San Francisco hosted two major world fairs: in 1915 and in 1939–40. A comparison of musical programming for these two enormous undertakings highlights changes in artistic taste and expression prompted, in part, by a new social awareness and an increased attention to diversity. Both fairs marked the end of difficult periods in city's history while nominally celebrating massive engineering feats. The Panama–Pacific International Exposition—February 20 to December 4, 1915—came at the end of the city's recovery from its most devastating local catastrophe, the quake and fires of 1906; yet officially it commemorated the opening of the Panama Canal. The Golden Gate International Exposition, which ran from February 18 to October 29, 1939, was widely viewed as a partial cure for the economic problems of the Depression; yet officially it heralded the completion of the Golden Gate and San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridges.
Julie K. Brown
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262026574
- eISBN:
- 9780262258630
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262026574.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
This book explores how international expositions helped promote a public awareness of health and medicine during the period between 1876 to 1904, when the United States was making a transition from ...
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This book explores how international expositions helped promote a public awareness of health and medicine during the period between 1876 to 1904, when the United States was making a transition from the excesses of the Gilded Age to the early reform years of the Progressive Era. It discusses how exhibits at the expositions attempted to connect the public with issues directly related to modern health and medicine in the context of state medicine and public hygiene. These changes played out within four international expositions: the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, and the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis.Less
This book explores how international expositions helped promote a public awareness of health and medicine during the period between 1876 to 1904, when the United States was making a transition from the excesses of the Gilded Age to the early reform years of the Progressive Era. It discusses how exhibits at the expositions attempted to connect the public with issues directly related to modern health and medicine in the context of state medicine and public hygiene. These changes played out within four international expositions: the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, and the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis.
Miriam R. Levin, Sophie Forgan, Martina Hessler, Robert H. Kargon, and Morris Low
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262013987
- eISBN:
- 9780262265935
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262013987.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
At the close of the nineteenth century, industrialization and urbanization marked the end of the traditional understanding of society as rooted in agriculture. This book examines the construction of ...
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At the close of the nineteenth century, industrialization and urbanization marked the end of the traditional understanding of society as rooted in agriculture. This book examines the construction of an urban-centered, industrial-based culture — an entirely new social reality based on science and technology. The chapters show that this invention of modernity was brought about through the efforts of urban elites — businessmen, industrialists, and officials — to establish new science- and technology-related institutions. International expositions, museums, and other such institutions and projects helped stem the economic and social instability fueled by industrialization, projecting the past and the future as part of a steady continuum of scientific and technical progress. The chapters examine the dynamic connecting urban planning, museums, educational institutions, and expositions in Paris, London, Chicago, Berlin, and Tokyo from 1870 to 1930. In Third Republic Paris, politicians, administrators, social scientists, architects, and engineers implemented the future city through a series of commissions, agencies, and organizations; in rapidly expanding London, cultures of science and technology were both rooted in and constitutive of urban culture; in Chicago after the Great Fire, Commercial Club members pursued civic ideals through scientific and technological change; in Berlin, industry, scientific institutes, and the popularization of science helped create a modern metropolis; and in Meiji-era Tokyo (Edo), modernization and Westernization went hand in hand.Less
At the close of the nineteenth century, industrialization and urbanization marked the end of the traditional understanding of society as rooted in agriculture. This book examines the construction of an urban-centered, industrial-based culture — an entirely new social reality based on science and technology. The chapters show that this invention of modernity was brought about through the efforts of urban elites — businessmen, industrialists, and officials — to establish new science- and technology-related institutions. International expositions, museums, and other such institutions and projects helped stem the economic and social instability fueled by industrialization, projecting the past and the future as part of a steady continuum of scientific and technical progress. The chapters examine the dynamic connecting urban planning, museums, educational institutions, and expositions in Paris, London, Chicago, Berlin, and Tokyo from 1870 to 1930. In Third Republic Paris, politicians, administrators, social scientists, architects, and engineers implemented the future city through a series of commissions, agencies, and organizations; in rapidly expanding London, cultures of science and technology were both rooted in and constitutive of urban culture; in Chicago after the Great Fire, Commercial Club members pursued civic ideals through scientific and technological change; in Berlin, industry, scientific institutes, and the popularization of science helped create a modern metropolis; and in Meiji-era Tokyo (Edo), modernization and Westernization went hand in hand.
Nathan Cardon
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- October 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780190274726
- eISBN:
- 9780190888503
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190274726.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century, Social History
The introduction argues that the Atlanta and Nashville international expositions were spaces through which white and African American southerners exhibited themselves as modern citizens committed to ...
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The introduction argues that the Atlanta and Nashville international expositions were spaces through which white and African American southerners exhibited themselves as modern citizens committed to joining the nation in an imperial future. For the New South ideologues who backed the fairs, the expositions were more than celebratory carnivals advertising the region’s resources; they were didactic events that would modernize the region’s rural population and convince the world of the South’s modernity. The introduction contextualizes the fairs within the New South, provides a history of Atlanta and Nashville as quintessential New South cities, offers a definition of modernity, and poses the question of why mass and speed were alien to turn-of-the-century southerners.Less
The introduction argues that the Atlanta and Nashville international expositions were spaces through which white and African American southerners exhibited themselves as modern citizens committed to joining the nation in an imperial future. For the New South ideologues who backed the fairs, the expositions were more than celebratory carnivals advertising the region’s resources; they were didactic events that would modernize the region’s rural population and convince the world of the South’s modernity. The introduction contextualizes the fairs within the New South, provides a history of Atlanta and Nashville as quintessential New South cities, offers a definition of modernity, and poses the question of why mass and speed were alien to turn-of-the-century southerners.
Cara A. Finnegan
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252039263
- eISBN:
- 9780252097317
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252039263.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This chapter examines viewer responses to the Farm Security Administration (FSA) exhibit at the First International Photographic Exposition, held at the Grand Central Palace in New York City from ...
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This chapter examines viewer responses to the Farm Security Administration (FSA) exhibit at the First International Photographic Exposition, held at the Grand Central Palace in New York City from April 18 through 24, 1938. The First International Photographic Exposition featured more than 3,000 photographs representing all genres of photography. As the organizing committee wrote in its introduction to the catalog of exhibits and programs, “Photography today is the most catholic of the applied sciences and the livest of the arts. Lucid in its application, universal in its appeal, it is making America a picture-minded people—a people in whom the visual sense grows increasingly more dominant as an educational and emotional influence.” This chapter first describes 1930s photography and Americans' picture-mindedness before discussing viewer comments on the FSA exhibit. It shows that those comments offer insight into how viewers responded to the immediate reading problem posed by the FSA photographs: how to make sense of images of want at a time of economic, political, and social crisis in the United States.Less
This chapter examines viewer responses to the Farm Security Administration (FSA) exhibit at the First International Photographic Exposition, held at the Grand Central Palace in New York City from April 18 through 24, 1938. The First International Photographic Exposition featured more than 3,000 photographs representing all genres of photography. As the organizing committee wrote in its introduction to the catalog of exhibits and programs, “Photography today is the most catholic of the applied sciences and the livest of the arts. Lucid in its application, universal in its appeal, it is making America a picture-minded people—a people in whom the visual sense grows increasingly more dominant as an educational and emotional influence.” This chapter first describes 1930s photography and Americans' picture-mindedness before discussing viewer comments on the FSA exhibit. It shows that those comments offer insight into how viewers responded to the immediate reading problem posed by the FSA photographs: how to make sense of images of want at a time of economic, political, and social crisis in the United States.
Miriam R. Levin
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262013987
- eISBN:
- 9780262265935
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262013987.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
This chapter sets out the book’s purpose, which is to examine the ideas and policies embodied in urban planning, international expositions, and museums in five major urban centers: Paris, London, ...
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This chapter sets out the book’s purpose, which is to examine the ideas and policies embodied in urban planning, international expositions, and museums in five major urban centers: Paris, London, Chicago, Berlin, and Tokyo. These cities were at the heart of this historic shift, negotiating between regional and international networks of production, consumption, and exchange. They underwent similar patterns of industrialization due to the shared international perspective of their planners, while also exhibiting differences arising from their varied political, social, and economic circumstances. The study examines institutions that characterized the culture of modernity being established in these five cities, along with the contexts and personal networks that explain them.Less
This chapter sets out the book’s purpose, which is to examine the ideas and policies embodied in urban planning, international expositions, and museums in five major urban centers: Paris, London, Chicago, Berlin, and Tokyo. These cities were at the heart of this historic shift, negotiating between regional and international networks of production, consumption, and exchange. They underwent similar patterns of industrialization due to the shared international perspective of their planners, while also exhibiting differences arising from their varied political, social, and economic circumstances. The study examines institutions that characterized the culture of modernity being established in these five cities, along with the contexts and personal networks that explain them.
Jonathan Wyrtzen
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781501700231
- eISBN:
- 9781501704253
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501700231.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, African History
This chapter examines the symbolic and classificatory forces in play that set constraints and opportunities for both colonial and Moroccan actors in the colonial political field. Focusing on the ...
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This chapter examines the symbolic and classificatory forces in play that set constraints and opportunities for both colonial and Moroccan actors in the colonial political field. Focusing on the Palace of Morocco exhibit at the 1931 International Colonial Exposition outside Paris, which showcased France's treasured North African possessions (Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco), the chapter analyzes the path-dependent effects of the initial French decision to employ oy an indirect mode of rule in Morocco. In particular, it explores the intertwined logics of legitimation and legibility that formed this “protectorate” imaginaire and how these ordering forces were expressed in ethnographic, preservationist, and developmental modes of colonial rule. It shows how logics of legitimization that were contingently determined at an initial critical juncture influenced, directly and indirectly, the logics of legibility that were subsequently employed in the field.Less
This chapter examines the symbolic and classificatory forces in play that set constraints and opportunities for both colonial and Moroccan actors in the colonial political field. Focusing on the Palace of Morocco exhibit at the 1931 International Colonial Exposition outside Paris, which showcased France's treasured North African possessions (Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco), the chapter analyzes the path-dependent effects of the initial French decision to employ oy an indirect mode of rule in Morocco. In particular, it explores the intertwined logics of legitimation and legibility that formed this “protectorate” imaginaire and how these ordering forces were expressed in ethnographic, preservationist, and developmental modes of colonial rule. It shows how logics of legitimization that were contingently determined at an initial critical juncture influenced, directly and indirectly, the logics of legibility that were subsequently employed in the field.
Jessica B. Teisch
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807834435
- eISBN:
- 9781469603513
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807878019_teisch.4
- Subject:
- Environmental Science, Environmental Studies
This book begins with San Francisco's Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915. The state's nineteenth-century dream had rested on anti-industrial and agrarian themes, but the 1915 exposition ...
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This book begins with San Francisco's Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915. The state's nineteenth-century dream had rested on anti-industrial and agrarian themes, but the 1915 exposition announced California's future. In the Palace of Transportation, a Ford rolled off an assembly line every ten minutes. The Palace of Machinery displayed life-sized models of California's mechanized canneries, cement mixers, electricity-lit mines, Pelton water wheels, power plants, and diesel engines. The fair also gave one last tribute to the ideals of a century that had been defined, above all, by one of the most self-confident and exuberant ideas of all times: progress. This nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century notion of progress rested on an abstract but universal set of ideas. In theory, progress promised many things: material and commercial development, scientific and social enlightenment, free markets, and rule of law.Less
This book begins with San Francisco's Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915. The state's nineteenth-century dream had rested on anti-industrial and agrarian themes, but the 1915 exposition announced California's future. In the Palace of Transportation, a Ford rolled off an assembly line every ten minutes. The Palace of Machinery displayed life-sized models of California's mechanized canneries, cement mixers, electricity-lit mines, Pelton water wheels, power plants, and diesel engines. The fair also gave one last tribute to the ideals of a century that had been defined, above all, by one of the most self-confident and exuberant ideas of all times: progress. This nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century notion of progress rested on an abstract but universal set of ideas. In theory, progress promised many things: material and commercial development, scientific and social enlightenment, free markets, and rule of law.
Pamela H. Simpson
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816676194
- eISBN:
- 9781452947921
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816676194.003.0004
- Subject:
- Art, Art History
This chapter examines the role of cereal architecture, crop art, and butter sculpture at the major international expositions of Chicago in 1893, Buffalo in 1901, Saint Louis in 1904, and San ...
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This chapter examines the role of cereal architecture, crop art, and butter sculpture at the major international expositions of Chicago in 1893, Buffalo in 1901, Saint Louis in 1904, and San Francisco in 1915. It describes the Columbian Exposition’s new style of architecture introduced by the State of Iowa. This new style referred to temples covered with decorative grain cladding that filled the Agricultural Hall and the state pavilions. Kansas built a pavilion decorated with corn and wheat that spelled out how many millions of bushels of each had been harvested the year before. California showed a citrus tower, an orange-covered Liberty Bell, and a full-scale equestrian knight in prunes. Iowa’s building featured emblems of the arts and industries delineated in 130 varieties of grain.Less
This chapter examines the role of cereal architecture, crop art, and butter sculpture at the major international expositions of Chicago in 1893, Buffalo in 1901, Saint Louis in 1904, and San Francisco in 1915. It describes the Columbian Exposition’s new style of architecture introduced by the State of Iowa. This new style referred to temples covered with decorative grain cladding that filled the Agricultural Hall and the state pavilions. Kansas built a pavilion decorated with corn and wheat that spelled out how many millions of bushels of each had been harvested the year before. California showed a citrus tower, an orange-covered Liberty Bell, and a full-scale equestrian knight in prunes. Iowa’s building featured emblems of the arts and industries delineated in 130 varieties of grain.
Jim Tranquada and John King
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824835446
- eISBN:
- 9780824869762
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824835446.003.0007
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Pacific Studies
This chapter focuses on the presence of Hawaiian music at expositions. Because of the ʻukulele's widespread popularity on the West Coast, the Hawaiian presence at the Panama-Pacific International ...
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This chapter focuses on the presence of Hawaiian music at expositions. Because of the ʻukulele's widespread popularity on the West Coast, the Hawaiian presence at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition already was a familiar one to many of the locals. However, Hawaiian music had a profound impact on many other of the fair's more than 18 million visitors, one of which was Henry Ford of Ford Motor Company. Indeed, the ʻukulele had become “the most popular instrument of the day.” By the end of 1915, ʻukuleles—“the new musical instrument, a craze of the Frisco Exposition”—and ʻukulele lessons were being advertised in Kansas City, Detroit, Fort Worth, New Orleans, Duluth, Minnesota, Anaconda, Montana, and Columbus, Georgia.Less
This chapter focuses on the presence of Hawaiian music at expositions. Because of the ʻukulele's widespread popularity on the West Coast, the Hawaiian presence at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition already was a familiar one to many of the locals. However, Hawaiian music had a profound impact on many other of the fair's more than 18 million visitors, one of which was Henry Ford of Ford Motor Company. Indeed, the ʻukulele had become “the most popular instrument of the day.” By the end of 1915, ʻukuleles—“the new musical instrument, a craze of the Frisco Exposition”—and ʻukulele lessons were being advertised in Kansas City, Detroit, Fort Worth, New Orleans, Duluth, Minnesota, Anaconda, Montana, and Columbus, Georgia.
Nathan Cardon
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- October 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780190274726
- eISBN:
- 9780190888503
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190274726.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century, Social History
Chapter 1 explores the motives behind the expositions. New South boosters at the fairs presented an argument for an industrial, modern, and imperial South. They exhibited the region as ...
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Chapter 1 explores the motives behind the expositions. New South boosters at the fairs presented an argument for an industrial, modern, and imperial South. They exhibited the region as future-oriented, open to northern investment and industrial development. At the same time, the expositions were not singular spaces. The fairs looked to the future, while celebrating the region’s past. They praised the machine, while remaining ambiguous about its true effects. Architecture suggested the stability and achievements of the past and yet subtly condemned the modern city. Despite these contradictions, the Atlanta and Nashville expositions did present a fairly unified vision. A dream that made few excuses for the southern past, the fairs spread bourgeois values in the present and suggested a future in which a class and racial hierarchy joined to form a peaceful yet powerful New South.Less
Chapter 1 explores the motives behind the expositions. New South boosters at the fairs presented an argument for an industrial, modern, and imperial South. They exhibited the region as future-oriented, open to northern investment and industrial development. At the same time, the expositions were not singular spaces. The fairs looked to the future, while celebrating the region’s past. They praised the machine, while remaining ambiguous about its true effects. Architecture suggested the stability and achievements of the past and yet subtly condemned the modern city. Despite these contradictions, the Atlanta and Nashville expositions did present a fairly unified vision. A dream that made few excuses for the southern past, the fairs spread bourgeois values in the present and suggested a future in which a class and racial hierarchy joined to form a peaceful yet powerful New South.
Nathan Cardon
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- October 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780190274726
- eISBN:
- 9780190888503
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190274726.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century, Social History
Chapter 2 examines the creation of and role played by the Negro Buildings at the Atlanta and Nashville fairs. These African American–run buildings gave southern black professionals and clerics an ...
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Chapter 2 examines the creation of and role played by the Negro Buildings at the Atlanta and Nashville fairs. These African American–run buildings gave southern black professionals and clerics an opportunity to voice their own story of the South’s past, present, and future. The buildings presented an image of a “New Negro” who was well versed in the modern techniques of industry and agriculture. The Negro Building exhibits presented black southerners as a progressive and future-oriented people who challenged much of the evolutionary thinking and racial science of the late nineteenth century. At the same time, the Negro Buildings make clear the ways some African American leaders embraced the language of progress and civilization to accommodate white southern society.Less
Chapter 2 examines the creation of and role played by the Negro Buildings at the Atlanta and Nashville fairs. These African American–run buildings gave southern black professionals and clerics an opportunity to voice their own story of the South’s past, present, and future. The buildings presented an image of a “New Negro” who was well versed in the modern techniques of industry and agriculture. The Negro Building exhibits presented black southerners as a progressive and future-oriented people who challenged much of the evolutionary thinking and racial science of the late nineteenth century. At the same time, the Negro Buildings make clear the ways some African American leaders embraced the language of progress and civilization to accommodate white southern society.
Scott D. Seligman
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9789888139897
- eISBN:
- 9789888180745
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888139897.003.0027
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
The Chinese community in Chicago expressed their interest in partaking in Omaha’s Trans-Mississippi International Exposition, a large-scale international exhibition held in America. Wong himself ...
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The Chinese community in Chicago expressed their interest in partaking in Omaha’s Trans-Mississippi International Exposition, a large-scale international exhibition held in America. Wong himself formed a group with a view to compete against another group to construct and run the Chinese village. Given the fact that Wong did not have an opportunity to visit China, the exposition can be used as a good pretext by him to bring his son to the United States. Later, accidentally, Wong was sent to prison for contempt of court. As Wong was physically unable to go to Omaha and encountered financial difficulties, his business partners ousted him from the project.Less
The Chinese community in Chicago expressed their interest in partaking in Omaha’s Trans-Mississippi International Exposition, a large-scale international exhibition held in America. Wong himself formed a group with a view to compete against another group to construct and run the Chinese village. Given the fact that Wong did not have an opportunity to visit China, the exposition can be used as a good pretext by him to bring his son to the United States. Later, accidentally, Wong was sent to prison for contempt of court. As Wong was physically unable to go to Omaha and encountered financial difficulties, his business partners ousted him from the project.
Nathan Cardon
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- October 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780190274726
- eISBN:
- 9780190888503
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190274726.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century, Social History
Chapter 3 surveys the role women played at the Atlanta and Nashville fairs. The Cotton States and Tennessee Centennial transformed the gendered nature of public space in the South. Within their ...
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Chapter 3 surveys the role women played at the Atlanta and Nashville fairs. The Cotton States and Tennessee Centennial transformed the gendered nature of public space in the South. Within their controlled and ordered boundaries, southern white women were set free from male chaperones and traditional constraints. At the fairs’ Woman’s Buildings, southern white women embraced the New Woman, while simultaneously celebrating the mythic role played by southern women in the domestic culture of the region. This chapter also explores African American women’s presence at the fairs. Southern black women created a shadow Woman’s Board and invited prominent black female speakers to the expositions. On the other end of the spectrum, black women worked in the fairs’ nurseries and kitchens. The expositions provided an opportunity for black women to speak for themselves, while constraining them in the popular stereotypes of the late nineteenth century.Less
Chapter 3 surveys the role women played at the Atlanta and Nashville fairs. The Cotton States and Tennessee Centennial transformed the gendered nature of public space in the South. Within their controlled and ordered boundaries, southern white women were set free from male chaperones and traditional constraints. At the fairs’ Woman’s Buildings, southern white women embraced the New Woman, while simultaneously celebrating the mythic role played by southern women in the domestic culture of the region. This chapter also explores African American women’s presence at the fairs. Southern black women created a shadow Woman’s Board and invited prominent black female speakers to the expositions. On the other end of the spectrum, black women worked in the fairs’ nurseries and kitchens. The expositions provided an opportunity for black women to speak for themselves, while constraining them in the popular stereotypes of the late nineteenth century.
Nathan Cardon
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- October 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780190274726
- eISBN:
- 9780190888503
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190274726.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century, Social History
The book concludes with the 1907 Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition, which both reflected and refracted the hopes and dreams of the Cotton States and Tennessee Centennial. It reflected New South ...
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The book concludes with the 1907 Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition, which both reflected and refracted the hopes and dreams of the Cotton States and Tennessee Centennial. It reflected New South desires for a society in which industrial capital flooded the South, opened foreign markets, and where a race hierarchy included African Americans in the region’s progress yet separated them within that society. But it also saw the refraction of their dreams in in which the vision of an ordered and prosperous South came unhinged in the fair’s financial disaster. Southern women were all but eliminated from participating, and African Americans’ dreams of inclusion in the region’s progress—albeit on the white South’s terms—now appeared a very dubious assertion. The Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition still represented the New South dream of a modern and imperial future, but for others, it was a nightmare.Less
The book concludes with the 1907 Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition, which both reflected and refracted the hopes and dreams of the Cotton States and Tennessee Centennial. It reflected New South desires for a society in which industrial capital flooded the South, opened foreign markets, and where a race hierarchy included African Americans in the region’s progress yet separated them within that society. But it also saw the refraction of their dreams in in which the vision of an ordered and prosperous South came unhinged in the fair’s financial disaster. Southern women were all but eliminated from participating, and African Americans’ dreams of inclusion in the region’s progress—albeit on the white South’s terms—now appeared a very dubious assertion. The Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition still represented the New South dream of a modern and imperial future, but for others, it was a nightmare.
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2013
- ISBN:
- 9789888139590
- eISBN:
- 9789888180202
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888139590.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
Ayscough first developed as a connoisseur, under the guidance of collectors she met through the Royal Asiatic Society, including John C. Ferguson. She curated exhibitions of Chinese art in Shanghai, ...
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Ayscough first developed as a connoisseur, under the guidance of collectors she met through the Royal Asiatic Society, including John C. Ferguson. She curated exhibitions of Chinese art in Shanghai, as well as in America, including an exhibit at the Panama Pacific International Exposition. Her writings helped introduce western audiences to Chinese painting, and in particular, Chinese Modernism.Less
Ayscough first developed as a connoisseur, under the guidance of collectors she met through the Royal Asiatic Society, including John C. Ferguson. She curated exhibitions of Chinese art in Shanghai, as well as in America, including an exhibit at the Panama Pacific International Exposition. Her writings helped introduce western audiences to Chinese painting, and in particular, Chinese Modernism.
Nathan Cardon
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- October 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780190274726
- eISBN:
- 9780190888503
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190274726.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century, Social History
A Dream of the Future examines how southerners at the end of the nineteenth century worked through the major questions facing a nation undergoing profound change. In an age of empire and industry, ...
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A Dream of the Future examines how southerners at the end of the nineteenth century worked through the major questions facing a nation undergoing profound change. In an age of empire and industry, southerners grappled with what it meant to be modern. At Atlanta’s 1895 Cotton States and International Exposition and Nashville’s 1897 Tennessee Centennial Exposition, white and black southerners endeavored to understand how their region could be industrial and imperial on its own terms. On a local, national, and global stage, African Americans, New South boosters, New Women, and Civil War veterans presented their own dreams of the future. White southerners at the fairs exhibited a way of life that embraced racial segregation and industrial capitalism, while African Americans accommodated, engaged, and contested this vision. The Atlanta and Nashville expositions are representative of a developing Jim Crow modernity through which white and black southerners constructed themselves as the objects and subjects of modernity during the formative years of segregation. Ultimately, the Atlanta and Nashville fairs were spaces in which southerners presented themselves as modern and imperial citizens ready to spread the South’s culture and racial politics across the globe.Less
A Dream of the Future examines how southerners at the end of the nineteenth century worked through the major questions facing a nation undergoing profound change. In an age of empire and industry, southerners grappled with what it meant to be modern. At Atlanta’s 1895 Cotton States and International Exposition and Nashville’s 1897 Tennessee Centennial Exposition, white and black southerners endeavored to understand how their region could be industrial and imperial on its own terms. On a local, national, and global stage, African Americans, New South boosters, New Women, and Civil War veterans presented their own dreams of the future. White southerners at the fairs exhibited a way of life that embraced racial segregation and industrial capitalism, while African Americans accommodated, engaged, and contested this vision. The Atlanta and Nashville expositions are representative of a developing Jim Crow modernity through which white and black southerners constructed themselves as the objects and subjects of modernity during the formative years of segregation. Ultimately, the Atlanta and Nashville fairs were spaces in which southerners presented themselves as modern and imperial citizens ready to spread the South’s culture and racial politics across the globe.
Touré F. Reed
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807832233
- eISBN:
- 9781469605708
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807888544_reed.6
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
This introductory chapter describes how Booker T. Washington cemented his status as the nation's most “responsible” black leader. Addressing the Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition, ...
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This introductory chapter describes how Booker T. Washington cemented his status as the nation's most “responsible” black leader. Addressing the Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition, Washington outlined the proper role of blacks in the political economy of the New South. Less than a year before the United States Supreme Court handed down its ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson, the former slave-turned-principal of Alabama's Tuskegee Institute called upon members of his race to direct their attentions not to the rapid erosion of political and civil rights taking place throughout the south but to economic preparedness. Washington's speech, like his work at Tuskegee, proceeded from the view that neither blacks nor whites were ready for Afro-American equality. The freedmen and their descendants required time and guidance to equip themselves for the responsibilities of citizenship, while whites needed evidence of blacks' worthiness of inclusion in civil society.Less
This introductory chapter describes how Booker T. Washington cemented his status as the nation's most “responsible” black leader. Addressing the Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition, Washington outlined the proper role of blacks in the political economy of the New South. Less than a year before the United States Supreme Court handed down its ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson, the former slave-turned-principal of Alabama's Tuskegee Institute called upon members of his race to direct their attentions not to the rapid erosion of political and civil rights taking place throughout the south but to economic preparedness. Washington's speech, like his work at Tuskegee, proceeded from the view that neither blacks nor whites were ready for Afro-American equality. The freedmen and their descendants required time and guidance to equip themselves for the responsibilities of citizenship, while whites needed evidence of blacks' worthiness of inclusion in civil society.
