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Title: The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: White, Trumbull, 1868-1941 Igleheart, William, (from old catalog) joint author
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: Philadelphia and St. Louis, P.W. Ziegler & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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rity and ample funds. Nor does the material exhibit, eloquentas it is, so luminously represent the great advance of modernthought as does the fact that mans *silent partner has been In-vited by the government to leave her retiremeiit to assist in con-ducting a great international enterprise. Official representationfor women upon so important an occasion Is unprecedented. In factno such body as The Board of Lady Managers had ever existedbefore, and it seems peculiarly appropriate that this honor shouldhave been accorded women when celebrating the oreat deeds ofColumbus, who, inspired though his visions may have been, yet re-quired the aid of an Isabella to transform them into realities.From Its organization the Board has fully realized the seriousnessof the responsibility resting upon it, and its earnestness at once met 438 INTRODUCTION TO WOMANS DEPARTMENT. with helpful response. The Directory of the Exposition took theinitiative in making an appropriation for the Womans Building, and
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HIDE AND SEEK. Sculptural Group in front of JVoman^s Building,in allowinor the Board to call attention to the recent work of womenin new fields and to stimulate to greater efforts by selecting from INTRODUCTION TO WOMANS DEPARTMENT. 4)^^ their own sex the architect, decorators, sculptors and painters tocreate both the building and its adornments. Then the NationallCommission vied with the Directory in generosity by placing in thehands of the Lady Managers all the interests of women in connec-tion with the Exposition as well as the entire control of the Womans;Building. ITS METHODS Sustained by such support the Board embarked upon its hercu-lean enterprise without a precedent to guide it. The influence of this national body of representative womensoon made itself felt throughout the length and breadth of our greatcountry. Through its agency, women in almost every county ofevery State and Territory were made members of Worlds FairCommittees, and thus enlisted in work for the Exposition.

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