The Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Fair

Alaina returns to another small piece of 1893's Columbian Exposition, and look at the Woman's Building. Designed and decorated by trailblazing women, and filled with work and exhibits by women from around the world, it was one of the most popular buildings at the fair. The fair also hosted the World’s Congress of Representative Women, a week-long convention on women's issues and a landmerk in early feminist history. Did it fulfill its purpose? Who benefited the most? What can women's movements today learn from the successes and mistakes of 1893?

[Note: The murals were 58x12 feet, not inches]

Links!

• Transcribed speeches from The World's Congress of Representative Women
• Festival Jubilate, Op.17 sheet music
• The Woman's Building, Interior
• Art and Handicraft in the Woman's Building, Cover
• Mary Cassatt's "Modern Woman" mural
• Pearl Hart, The Last Lady Outlaw
• Final Bid: The Cinematic Auction Game

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