1893 World's Columbian Exposition
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The Brain Scoop is written and hosted by:
Emily Graslie
Created By:
Hank Green
Directed, Edited, Animated, and Scored by:
Michael Aranda
Production Assistant:
Katie Kirby
Special thanks to Isabelle Heyward and Serri Graslie for helping with the script, and to Si Watson and Emily Ward for the use of the animated Ferris wheel at the end!
Filmed on Location and Supported by:
The Field Museum in Chicago, IL
(www.fieldmuseum...)
Photo credits:
[0:14]
The World's Greatest Dynamo. Interior of General Electric exhibit From Columbian Gallery: A Portfolio of Photographs of the World's Fair The Werner Company
© The Field Museum, GN90799d_CG_130w, Photographer The Werner Company.
[0:15] Electricity!
Administration Building at Night, from Electricity Building. Large photographic print from The White City (As It Was). Photographs by William Henry Jackson. World's Columbian Exposition 1893.
© The Field Museum, GN90799d_JWH_007w, Photographer William Henry Jackson.
[0:19]
Ferris wheel, [called "Observation Wheel" at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition] and Falstaff Inn.
© The Field Museum, CSA14508, Photographer Charles Carpenter.
[0:20] The Ripe Fruit of Freedom. Liberty Bell made of fruit Interior of Agricultural Building From Columbian Gallery: A Portfolio of Photographs of the World's Fair The Werner Company
© The Field Museum, GN90799d_CG_109w, Photographer The Werner Company.
[0:50] Large colored "Map of the Exposition Grounds." from A History of the World's Columbian Exposition Held in Chicago in 1893. Vol. 1.
© The Field Museum, GN90799d_FMHWC001w.
[1:10] Panorama of State Buildings, from North East." Large photographic print from The White City (As It Was). Photographs by William Henry Jackson. World's Columbian Exposition 1893.
© The Field Museum, GN90799d_JWH_032w, Photographer William Henry Jackson.
[4:01]
Eskimos with Fair planners on dog sleds. World's Columbian Exposition, 1893
© The Field Museum, GN91733_011d, Photographer C.D. Arnold.
[4:01] Three Javanese dancers on a porch on a structure (building) at the Sundanese Pavillion (West Java) Village, Midway Plaisance at the World's Columbian Exposition. Several visitors to the Fair on right.
© The Field Museum, A106224.
[4:48]
Image of Muff made from byssus of Pinna nobilis (lining and filling made of other materials) Late 19th century. ex Ward's Natural Science Establishment (received 1893). Catalog No. 2462 Family Mollusca Bivalvia Pteriomorphia Pinnidae Land Europe Italy Shire Apulia. Sometimes called "sea silk" it is excreted by mollusks
[5:59] Head and shoulders of model wearing "Chanticleer" hat of bird feathers
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, LC-USZ62-61248
[6:03]
The Mammoth Crystal Cave. Diorama reconstruction exhibit Interior of Horticultural Building From Columbian Gallery: A Portfolio of Photographs of the World's Fair The Werner Company
© The Field Museum, GN90799d_CG_132w, Photographer The Werner Company.
As always, thanks to Andrés García Molero, Martina Šafusová, Evan Liao, and Seth Bergenholtz for translating the captions for this video!
1 How did they build these buildings 2 Where are pictures of them pouring the foundations? 3 Why for the love of everything holy would you tear these magnificent buildings down???? Why did they all of a sudden stop building these types of masterpieces? Mainly horse and buggy people could not build those monstrosities, but go ahead and make believe............. They were here before we came along!
Most of them were built from plaster for temporary purposes. There was also a fire destroying some of them. One still stands today, it is a museum.
@@pedroforo4550 Go research star forts and tell what they were used for..... there are lots of them in the US but I bet you had no idea smarty pants
@@pedroforo4550 if they ( because there were multiple fares all over the world, worth the research ) were temporary, how come the ones they kept are still standing today? With all its glory.
Lololol but somehow it's been held out of writings from Lewis an Clark, Napoleon, The British, Native American tribes etc etc. What a fucking moron. Ceasers palace, Bellagio, Venetian and the Pallazo have always been in Las Vegas too right. Holy shit i guess people will do anything to think they have some hidden knowledge the rest of us are just too dumb to see
@@philyb3040 Star forts were used for defence as they were the most effective (a) at resisting artillery and (b) resisting infantry attack as they had kill zones around the walls due to overlapping fields of fire.
Many people in the United States don't realize that world's fairs still happen because we haven't had one in North America since Vancouver's Expo '86. The largest in history was in 2010 in Shanghai. The next three are in Milan, Italy (2015), Astana, Kazakhstan (2017), and Dubai, UAE (2020). There are groups organized in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Houston, and San Francisco looking at the years 2023 and 2025.
Chicago would later go on to host the 1933-1934 Century of Progress Exposition, but lesser known, even in Chicago, were the plans to host Expo '92 there, in conjunction with Seville's Expo '92. Sadly, Chicago's plans was cancelled for budgetary reasons.
Chicago's city flag features four stars which represent Fort Dearborn, the Great Chicago Fire in 1871, and their two world's fairs. If they'd won the right to host the 2012 Olympics, there were plans to add a fifth star.
Many of the items exhibited at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition were put on a train and exhibited at the 1894 California Mid-Winter Exposition, the first of San Francisco's three world's fairs... so far!
More information: www.ExpoMuseum.com/
World Fair in San Francisco? Well I guess that would be one way to clean it up as it is now who would want to go there? 2020
@@c-hawkins4358 old people make me sad
Thank you for actual information.
I worked for nearly 30 years in the research labs of the Geological Survey of NSW in Australia.When I first started there we were based in the Geological and Mining Museum in Sydney until we were moved out to make way for the redevelopment of the museum. As a school student obsessed with minerals and fossils the museum and the Australian Natural History museum were my main haunts on weekends so i got to know the displays very well and when I worked there got to know the collections and history of the museum even better. When we relocated I had to relocate the petrology and Palaeontology collection as well and worked on maintaining both of them over those 30 years. The museum was founded in 1886 and moved into its final home in a converted DC power station in 1908. As part of the redevelopment it was rebadged as the Earth Exchange and when reopened was more like a low tech Disney land than a museum. After an increasingly rocky period the government decided to close it in 1995. Because I was one of the few people who had worked on the site, I had the sad job of packing up and relocating the economic mineral collection, compiling a proper register of a significant mining and laboratory artefact collection and contacting the department photographer to relocate the historic photographs collection as well as the departments record people and the state archives to recover and register significant archives. Among these artefacts were medals from various international exhibitions, including the Columbian exhibition. Part of the New South Wales display, (Australia was not yet an independent nation) included stacks of ingots and a pyramid of large ore and mineral samples. I had managed to recover most of these and it was when I was setting up a large Copper ore sample on its original plinth for display in our laboratory that I remembered there were two more of these ore specimens I hadn't seen. I last remembered them stored under a basement stairwell in the old Museum about 10 years previously but thought there was no chance they would still be there given the large internal changes made to the building. Thankfully they hadn't demolished the old staircase and had walled it off with a low access panel. There were no lights in the pitch dark under the stairs but groping around I managed to find the two specimens. They were so large that it took two of us and a large trolley to get them out to the van to transport them and a forklift to unload them at the other end. I also had to take my lab's Geiger counter with me because at one stage a large specimen of very radioactive Pitchblende was also stored with them. Thankfully that had already been removed. So the last specimen out of the museum was one of the earliest specimens in the collection and also one of its most travelled. All of the geology, mineralogy and palaeontology collections are now under the one roof at our Geoscience centre named after the Reverend W.B Clarke one of the colony's early geologists. The artefacts collection is now distributed and displayed among the Department's regional offices and laboratories along with some historic furniture and old display cases. Had I not recovered and registered these as historical artefacts they would have gone to auction along with the rest of the movable bits of the Earth Exchange. I have one souvenir from this exercise. Among the furnishings that went to auction was an old very dilapidated desk. I noticed thaed stamed into the legg was a crown with the initals V1R meaning it was a Victorian Era government desk from the old museum. I made sure I was the successful bidder and it is now a restoration project.
Is no one going to mention how these fairs supposedly took 2 years to fully construct, featuring hundreds of buildings made out of stone, with 40,000 men on top of a swamp, with no modern machinery?
allegedly they were made out of plaster, steel, and wood but i still find the construction time hard to believe. one of them left today _is_ solid stone and it looks identical to the others. just that one building should take a long time to build... i can't say the story is impossible but its certainly hard to believe.
If they were all made out of plaster, why are the only remaining buildings all made of stone. The Eifel tower was built for their worlds fair and people liked it so much they decided to keep it. It was meant to be destroyed along with the rest of the 'temporary' structures. If the Eifel tower is an example of victorian temporary structures, what were their permanent ones like?
@@Whatsitallabaaat Because there are temporary buildings and there are permanent ones. There is no reason why permanent and temporary buildings can not be built next to each other. The remaining buildings are permanent ones, which is why they are the stone buildings. The temporary buildings, made of plaster & laths, were torn down. It's not rocket science.
@@simonh6371 funny using rocket science as your argument as that is also based on believing a very flawed narrative. Next thing you'll quote is nuclear weapons 😅
They were not made of stone, every aspect of their construction is very well documented and easily researched.
The Industrial Revolution was in full swing by 1890 (the Transcontinental Railroad had been built twenty years prior), steam shovels, steam tractors, pneumatic tools, portable electric generators, telephones... were in everyday use.
Try learning a few things.
200 temporary buildings?🙄🤔 really?
Smh simply amazing how they covered up our true history and architecture with stupid lies and foolishness. Remember TartariYAH!
The lies are yours.
Explain how 'ancient palaces' allegedly existed in what would become Chicago for centuries yet are not mentioned at all in spoken histories of the Odawa, Ojibwe, Potawatomi, Miami, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Sac or Fox, all of whom lived in the area at the time.
The two most important inventions of all time, in no particular order:
1. Fire
2. Plumbing
No.
Ignitable flatulence.
It still has history on it...
Emily is articulate and well spoken and these informational episodes are so well put together, I can't help but think... "I would live to see an out take episode someday."
Keep up the excellent work!!
(05:06) This is one of the many reasons why I love this channel. You make the internet more awesome *****.
This was an absolutely fantastic episode. Granted, all episodes are fantastic, but as a Chicagoan, this fills me with pride. Thank you!
What! Is nobody going to mention the elephant in the room?
Are you talking about H.H. Holmes?
I like her jewelry too. Is that a Rosetta Stone necklace she has on?
I was going to then I saw your comment. I believe its a woolly mammoth by the curvature of the tusks.
Right!!
Built in splendour to be used for once 5 months and be destroyed.. If not, the number of people who attended does not make sense. T
How far in advance are these limited-time exhibits planned? Are there records for when/how long each specimen has been on display? I know that at any given time, a very small percentage of the museum's collection is on exhibit, but what percentage of the total collection has never been on display (and maybe never will be)?
possible explanation
th-cam.com/video/d_dHMV6umCs/w-d-xo.html
The Chicago World's Fair has interested me since I first read about it in high school. Thank you for making awesome, engaging, inspiring, & thoughtful videos. I hope you continue doing what you do. As an aspiring anthropologist, I look up to you.
Wow, this is really great info!! And it's what we focus on at our antiques mall. Thank you. I shared it on our store facebook (riantiquesmall)
Can we please replace the olympics with a world fair? I'd love to see it! It's like a giant temporary museum with loads of souvenirs!
Joelle Jansen good idea
That's funny..not many get it
Temporary....LOL!
It's in Dubai in 2021.
Why not combine the two?
The Devil in the White City is a fantastic book about this Exposition.
Thessarabian will be a Movie soon!
@@deeannemason7003 old people make me sad
Excellent recitation of “facts.”
I totally understand why critical thinking is no longer taught in American public schools.
Yes, soulless and passionless, sad to see
Because people such as yourself prefer fantasy?
Very cool. I love how you guys bring wisdom to us while talking about the past and the advances and studies then.
As a historian, I feel that it's also noteworthy that H.H. Holmes, one of America's first recorded serial killers, used the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition as his hunting grounds.
Fascinating. Thank you for the tidbit.
:O **Googles frantically**
Also, as an amateur anthropologist, the 1893 Columbian Exposition is also the first event to exhibit a pressed penny souvenir machine like those machines that Theme Parks like Disneland, Universal Studios, M&Ms world and Six Flags have, where you insert a penny and manually press a logo into it, elongating the coin in the process.
@@catsadilla324 As interesting as this fact is, it pales somewhat compared to a man who turned his hotel into a giant game of 'Mousetrap!' to sate his murderous urges.
More interesting, a family member had him exhumed to prove Holmes hadn't actually escaped alive. They show his skull and opened grave. Interesting that the coffin above him was fake and empty to throw off any would be grave robbers, for his coffin was under that one.
My grandmother rode the train from Texas to Chicago to see the 1933 "Century of Progress" exposition, which was held in roughly the same fairgrounds as the Columbian Exposition. Maybe you could do a show on that fair sometime? Pretty please?
Holy crap, for me that was the most mind blowing episode I have seen. I absolutely love learning about how people used to think the past and how the perceived the world. I know there probably wont be more episodes like this, but I would love if there were. Does anyone know of any channels with this kind of content published regularly?
Fantastic to see and recognize the origins of conservation and sustainable science. Thanks Emily!
Congo in that time... Oh god Belgium what the fuck!
King Leopold's Congo has got to be one of the most depressing events in human history.
Thank you!
Emily... i want your chair...
Being a science show I misread the title as Cambrian Explosion... followed by wondering what that had to do with 1893.
old people make me SAD
@@HueHanaejistla why reason
@@mohithshetty9446 because they do
This was a bit _post_ Cambrian.
@@HueHanaejistla Repetitive pups who lack historic perspective make me _SAD._
Can you please do a video (or more, preferably) on north american megafauna? It is one of my favorite topics, and I am sure the field museum must have an amazing collection.
I've loved the WCE since I read Devil in the White City and subsequently wrote a paper about its influence on American history and culture. It's one of the few things
I can write a 10 page paper about without getting tired of it.
3:52 We do this today, we call it reality television...
I love everything about this episode. It felt like an episode of Crash Course. Emily is so amazing at what she does.
I wonder what people thought when they saw the first ferris wheel. That probably blew their mind :)
Liked the video Emily!
It's always interesting to see how the world was becoming... increasingly globalized in the late 19th century. Watching stuff they've never seen before or let alone imagined of must've been an amazing experience for the visitors. Exhibiting people from other parts of the world however was a crime in my opinion although it might not've been perceived as such back then. All that stuff makes me wonder how the moral value we think is right today will change in another century time. Thanks for the episode! I enjoyed it :)
Maybe calling the "exhibition" of other cultures during the 1893 World's Fair a crime is a bit harsh.
It might be more accurate to look at it as the first imperfect steps towards appreciating other cultures.
As Emily pointed out, the Civil War ended just 30 years earlier. The Civil Rights Movement wasn't in full force for another 70 years. The first African American President was over a century away.
If you look at other cultures through your culture's lens, they are always going to befound wanting. That extends to looking at other points in our culture's history through our current lens.
Maybe. That's why I added 'although it might've not been perceived as such back then'. Because I know it obviously wasn't thought of as a crime. As for your thoughts that it can be seen as the first imperfect step of appreciating other cultures, I still find it a little hard to think of it that way but I think I get the point, and thanks for the reply.
I just have to thumbs up this entire conversation.
Sarai Kindred Does that mean we each get half a thumb? If so, I want the part with the finger nail.
hyungwoo0312 it's going back 1400 years
Wow, you touch on subjects here that would make many, many fascinating future "Brain Scoop" episodes if you take them one at a time!
Strange specimens!
Anthropology!
Cultural imperialism!
19th-century education!
Early museum craft!
Sewage engineering!
I want to delve into all of it!
I love your passion for all kinds of historical research. I'm a bit squeamish so while I appreciate your enthusiasm for dissection, I can't watch much of those videos. But your scientific and cultural knowledge, not to mention your interest in all aspects of an event or era or species (dealing with all the human waste at the fair), coupled with your great sense of humor ... I can't get enough of your work. And I share it widely. Kudos to you!
I literally just finished watching the live stream from last night and you announced this video and here it is!
The 1893 Chicago World's Fair was where the phonograph was introduced to a wide audience. How I would love to have attended the Fair, bought one of the machines and many recording cylinders, and then spent years thereafter recording the folklore and autobiographies of numerous Amerind elders in their native languages.
ok language boomer
@@HueHanaejistla Do you despise knowledge?
@@-oiiio-3993 Do you endorse needlessly verbose diction?
@@HueHanaejistla Linguiphile's post was not.
Super-excited that I'll be in Chicago in May to check this exhibit out!
I read the title as 1893 World's Cambrian Explosion. huh?
Shame I'm a pauper and in another country as well, otherwise I'd love to visit this exhibition. I once played a text adventure all about the 1893 World's Fair and it was amazing walking around the fair, visiting all the buildings and examining all the artifacts, It was at turns bemusing, dismaying, and fascinating.
The author of that 1893 game is a regular in the Chicago IF club here. And yes, it's a great exhibition!
Depending on where you live, you might have the opportunity to see a contemporary world's fair. The next three world's fairs are in Milan, Italy (2015), Astana, Kazakshatan (2017), and Dubai, UAE (2020).
@@UrsoChappell Am I late?
I get so excited when I see a new episode the The Brain Scoop has been uploaded!
Would anyone else consider it an inspiring experience today to have a conversation with people who were raised and worked in unique tribal societies? If they were paid for their time away from home and treated respectfully, couldn't there be gains on both sides? How often do we have the chance to meet people with experience and environment so different from ourselves?
The Pinky Show made a very interesting video about the history, impact, and legacy of the World's Columbian Exposition a few years back; do a TH-cam search for "Fabulous Imperialism!: The 1893 Columbian Exposition". The '93 Columbian Exposition massively re-sculpted American's identity, yet it is now lost to popular memory. So glad Emily brings it to light here.
I went and saw the exhibit right after Christmas. I really enjoyed it!
I recently read The Devil in the White City this summer about the World Fair. It is so cool to get to see its prevalence still in the culture of Chicago today!
This was such a great episode! Thanks Emily and Team
Best quotation from this video: "... it was plain to see that limits and boundaries needed to be placed on the collection and exploration of our natural world, before things went totally out of control." It's still so important today.
"It belongs in a museum!"
"No, Dr. Jones, YOU belong in a museum!"
OLD.
PEOPLE.
MAKE.
ME.
SAD.
@@HueHanaejistla So you've said.
Are we to presume that you intend to die young?
You mentioned while at the University of Montana that the pangolins were some of your favorite specimens. What's The Field Museum's collection of pangolins like?
Your enthusiasm is infectious! I had no idea I would be so interested in a trade fair, thank you for the video :)
Thanks, Emily! Hoping I can get there soon!
Admission to the fair cost $12 in today's dollars. So it was cheaper than admission to the Field Museum is now.
Maybe so, but at the World's Fair you were also expected to buy a lot of things; aside from food and drink, attendees walked away with gifts and trinkets, they purchased fair ride tickets, bought additional tickets to watch events, they had to pay to ogle at reconstructed native villages... those additional costs add up.
Fascinating stuff. Love your presentations Emily and this one is one of the best. Thanks.
After seeing hearing you comment about your hands in the live video last night...all I could focus on was them while watching this video.
I went to this exhibit over winter break. It's fantastic! Everyone should go and see it!
"...researchers tend to value them in terms of their historical, scientific, or cultural value rather than assigning arbitrary market values. Plus by selling items they become prizes for individuals and their scientific value may never be fully realized if they remain in the hands of private individuals. These new thoughts about collections and ownership were beginning to take shape at the Columbian exposition."
SAME war today - privatization vs. government protections. Here's your "rugged individualism" in action, individuals monetizing and profiting off of nature. As stylish as exotic bird feathers were in ladies hats at the time we all know where the birds would be today if we were counting on free market corrections.
This was one great episode.
'As, I currently read"Devil in White City", I truly thank you for Enthusiastic explanation of of gaps i find. Nice
This video was great! I love that you did something that doesn't require the Grossmeter.
So, basically when visiting the Field Museum and stuck with a pop quiz, there's a good chance the answer is Carl Akeley.
As a Chicagoan, I love that Emily is in my town.
Emily, I wish I had met you and Nancy M. ( I think you know who I mean) when I was in college. We would have raised entomology to the heights of practical studies of insects. You and Nancy are absolutely brilliant in your fields.
Roxanne, a huge amount of the collection will never be on display. There are 12 million insect specimens, not to mention the many millions more in bulk samples. Thats half the collection right there.
I would recommend the book 'To Chicago and back' by Aleko Konstantinov on this subject. He and a few Bulgarians traveled to the fair and this is the story of their journey. The book can be found online for free
this excites me SO MUCH. I am reading Devil in the White City right now. need to plan my visit soon
i LOVE the elephant pin!!
I love this video! I am sharing it with my students, it is an interesting commentary into what society was like back then.
I was there after New Years and it was awesome
How much for the clam muff? Hmm, that sounds wrong.
im a plumber and the plumbing with today's technology would take over two years.....
Yet it was done, all is well documented.
@@-oiiio-3993 I believe they exist i just don't believe in the timeline. My thoughts on this matter change constantly but our history is a mystery and they were much higher minded at one time than we are today
@@joelwells2169 Every aspect of the fair's construction is very well documented.
thumbs up to bring back the worlds fair!
saw the exhibit in November. thanks for the extra info!
Hola from argentina, I was trying to get some picture from the electrician squad doing the magnificent job they did. good video , cheers!
Lit by Westinghouse (with Nikola Tesla as chief engineer) after Edison lost the bid - there's interesting history behind it.
I really thought she was sarcastic about this, and wished her to say at the end....”but it was all faaake!, we inherited aaall and destroyed it because it didn’t cost us a thiiiing!!!, but she didn’t.
Maybe because she's not mentally deranged like certain others who don't ask why if these structures had been here for centuries, how come nobody had ever noticed?
Why would she?
She studies actual history and is not an idiot.
Feathers that belong to now extinct birds...in that hat. Good show, Brain Scoop!!
hahaha
Emily, you should do an episode about the Field Museum's repatriation efforts for human remains!
th-cam.com/video/uZ6mbiqBh6M/w-d-xo.html
YOU MAKE ME SAD
@@HueHanaejistla Dry up.
@@-oiiio-3993 and what if i don't you can dry up crying about it
@@HueHanaejistla Lame.
People didn't mortgage their homes for $12 in today's money. That doesn't make sense.
They needed to in order to afford the transportation to the fair. Not necessarily the ticket itself.
Expos and science fairs were the shit back in the day! I think I have been to the field museum before.
Wonderful. I still haven't made it to the Field Museum to see the exhibit, but I will!
great video
I really love these videos, great job!
Yet you sit on the Native American blanket in your European red chair! Look up JonLevi
Jon Levi dispenses lies and nonsense to the historically ignorant while ignoring / avoiding facts and truth.
Love this very educational and insightful.
What, no mention of Percival Lowell's Space Cannon, and all the people trapped on Mars for two years?!
Wait, you mean the events described in the game Martian Dreams (Ultima Worlds of Adventure) *weren't* real?! :)
The 1892 World's Fair _was_ real.
@@-oiiio-3993 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultima:_Worlds_of_Adventure_2:_Martian_Dreams
@@aulddragon Interesting.
Fantasy for its own sake and for entertainment is wonderful stuff.
I'm not a 'gamer', myself, but that looks like intellectually stimulating fun, especially _if_ peppered with accurate historic references.
People commenting here in the sincere belief that the structures of the 1893 fair were 'ancient', 'Tartarian', and all of their other rot need to learn to separate fantasy from reality.
There is also some important history about Ida B. Wells and this exhibition: digital.library.upenn.edu/women/wells/exposition/exposition.html
The point about 19th-century anthropology's assumptions of Western (and Christian and industrial) superiority over other cultures is true.
Another motivation for anthropologists of that period was to document cultures that they assumed would soon disappear as people worldwide became "civilized." Some of that worldwide homogenization has happened with the spread of industrial economies, but many societies of the world have remained unique even as they modernized.
For example, Native Americans cultures are still alive and continue to develop, counter to the predictions of the late 19th century.
I am so sad that I am unable to make it there for this exhibit, or just the museum in general. The museums seem to be really lacking in Australia in comparison.
You are so well spoken. Do read for Q cards? It never appears that way. I really do wish I lived closer to Chicago.
The plaster of paris buildings would have turned into a goopy mess after one rainfall. ?
They were not "plaster of Paris", they were staff.
Every detail of the fair's construction is very well documented.
I live in Chicago and I haven't been to the Field Museum since 2005. Are there any new interesting things they added to it?
I highly recommend the book "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson. It is a fascinating look at some of the good and bad sides of the Chicago World's Fair.
You are extremely clever, it makes me wish I could retain information
no HH Holmes?
Ok, have to get to the Field Museum before September then....this may take some doing.
Loved the video! I was at the exposition and still remember it vaguely
That was 123 years ago.
+SlyPearTree That's why they said vaguely xD
lookat youtubes by JON LEVI to see from a completely different angle
Jon Levi dispenses lies and nonsense to the historically ignorant while ignoring / avoiding facts and truth.
Cool my brother's birthday is September 7th! Also I don't know why, but the way Emily said youtube was really funny to me for some reason :)
I love the animals, but I would love to see more Brain Scoop videos about anthropology!
Are the items in this exhibition kept in storage usually and taken out for this one-time show, or have they been on exhibit for a long time and now only collected together for a short while before being put into the examination/storage area?
These specimens are housed within their respective collections, and were pulled out for this curated display. When the exhibit closes they will go back to those collections to remain accessible to researchers!
***** I never thought that specimens/artifacts in the museum might belong to multiple organization groups (tags if you will). I can't even imagine the organization system needed to keep track of all that. That would actually be a really interesting video imo, an explanation of the records keeping/organizational system used in the museum. Would you tell us how they keep all of that straight?
You're absolutely correct. I think that on many cases the behind-the-scenes work is so much more interesting than the exhibits themselves.
As always : Great edutainment. And I find myself waiting for "... It still has brain on it..." at the end.
Great vid! I got really interested in the Columbian Exposition after Erik Larson's The Devil in the White City, and now I want to go to this exhibit even more. :)