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Identifier: worldscolumbiane02whit (find matches)
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
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e has been much un-favorable comment upon the somewhat ridiculous title of the board,and with justice, but the fault Is not with the women. Its member-ship comprises as many representative workers In the active indus-tries of the country as if It were composed of men. There are doc-tors, lawyers, merchants, farmers and many others of equal activityin the business world among the members. Mrs. Potter Palmer, of Chlcagro, Is the President of the Board, and the tact and orreat ex-es , o ecutive ability which she has displayed, although entering this publiclife from the domain of a rich and prominent society woman, hasmade her justly celebrated. These women, who are also commis-sioners, are proud of the fact that they are the first feminine (44 7 444 womans department. officials ever commissioned by Congress. It Is said that there wasnever before a building set apart at a Worlds Exposition for thedisplay of womans work exclusively. When the time came to prepare for the construction of the
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MRS. POTIKK. l^Ai^MliR. Womans Building, a large prize was offered to be awarded for thesuccessful design in competition. Fourteen women architects, notone of them more than twenty-five years of age, submitted designsfor the structure to the scrutiny of the Board of Architects of the womans department. 445 Exposition, and that of Miss Sophia G. Hayden, of Boston, wasaccepted. It Is true that not all of the women interested in theWomans Department concur In the choice of the architects, never-theless the building has been the subject of very general admiration.The same architect also executed the design.

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