Pamela Toler (
History in the Margins, 9/5/26), "
The Great Panic of 1893": "occasionally an event, or person, or book, or idea ... shows up in footnotes or casual asides ... if it's interesting or important enough, I share it ... Lately, the Great Panic of 1893 has become insistent." Neil Flanagan (
The Birth of a Capital, 9/4/26), "
How often do you think about the 1893 World's Fair?": "what draws us to an event, story, or image depends less on the context of the events than the context we inhabit."
Photos / maps / VR of the fair.
Foods,
sweet treats, and "
orange cider" of the fair.
Pall Mall Magazine and
RIBA Journal on the fair. And other magazines that
began in 1893 feature
Ida Tarbell on "
Pasteur at Home,"
famous prints,
rules for psychic / occult investigators, articles on
orchidology and
astronomy, "
Last Week's Paris" followup on
anarchists, and the
first story of
Sexton Blake.
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