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Identifier: randmcnallycosha02chic (find matches)
Title: Rand, McNally & co.'s handy guide to Chicago, and World's Columbian exposition ... What to see and how to see it
Year: 1892 (1890s)
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Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: Chicago and New York, Rand, McNally & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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e programme of exercises for dedication day: 1. March for orchestra. Written for the occasion by JohnK. Payne. 2. Prayer by the Rt. Rev. Bishop Brooks of Massachusetts. 3. Report to the Worlds Columbian Exposition by theDirector-General. 4. Presentation of the buildings for dedication by the Presi-dent of the Worlds Columbian Exposition to the President WorldsColumbian Commission. 5. Chorus, The Heavens are Telling—Haydn. 6. Presentation of the buildings for dedication by the Presi-dent of the Worlds Columbian Commission to the President ofthe United States. 7. March and chorus from The Ruins of Athens—Beethoven. 8. Dedication of the buildings by the President of the UnitedStates. 9. Hallelujah Chorus from the Messiah—Handel. 10. Dedicatory oration by the Hon. William C. P. Breckin-ridge of Kentucky. 11. Dedicatory ode. Words by Miss Harriet Monroe; musicby E. A. McDowell. 12. vStar Spangled Banner and America, with fullchorus and orchestral accompaniment. 13. National salute.14
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(194) WORLDS COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION. 195 A special feature of the three-days exercises will be the gor-geous spectacle of the Procession of Centuries, given on theFair grounds on the nights of October 20th, 2ist, and 22d. Thespectacle is constituted in twenty-four allegorical floats, drawnthrough the interior water-ways of the grounds by cable. Thefloats cost $92,000. Following is the list: 1. The Stone Age; representing the cliff-dwellers and theToltecs. 2. The Bronze Age; representing the Aztecs and the moundbuilders. 3. The Aboriginal Age; representing the American Indians. 4. Columbus at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella. 5. Departure of Columbus from Palos. 6. Discovery of America. 7. Columbus before the court of Ferdinand and Isabellapresenting natives and the strange products of the new country. 8. English Cavaliers and the vSettlement of Jamestown. 9. Hendrick Hudson; Discovery of the Hudson River;Dutch settlement at New Amsterdam. 10. Landing of the Pilgrims. 11. Illustration

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