Art and Handicraft in the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893.
Edited by Maud Howe Elliott, 1854-1948.
Chicago and New York: Rand, McNally & Company, 1894.

WOMAN'S BUILDING.
DESIGNED BY SOPHIA G. HAYDEN.
UNITED STATES.

OFFICIAL EDITION

ART AND HANDICRAFT
IN THE
Woman's Building
OF THE
WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION
CHICAGO, 1893

EDITED BY
MAUD HOWE ELLIOTT

WITH SPECIAL ARTICLES BY

MRS. POTTER PALMER, MRS. JULIA WARD HOWE, MISS S. T. HALLOWELL, MRS. CANDACE WHEELER, MISS ALICE C. MORSE, MRS. ELIZABETH W. PERRY, MRS. LOUISA HOPKINS, MRS. HENRY RICHARDS, MRS. FREDERICK P. BELLAMY, MRS. EDNA D. CHENEY, MRS. JAMES P. EAGLE, MRS. FRANCES B. CLARKE, MRS. GEORGE B. DUNLAP, MRS. MAUD HOWE ELLIOTT
AND
THE DUCHESS OF VERAGUA, THE PRINCESS M. SCHAHOVSKOY, THE COUNTESS OF ABERDEEN, THE BARONESS BURDETT-COUTTS, THE BARONESS THORBURG RAPPE, MME. PÉGARDE, FRAU PROFESSORIN KASELOWSKY, MME. QUELLENAC, MME. OXHOLM, MRS. BEDFORD-FENWICK, MRS. E. CRAWFORD, MME. EVA MARRIOTTI

Illustrated

CHICAGO AND NEW YORK:
RAND, MCNALLY & COMPANY,
1894.

Copyright, 1893, Boussod, Valadon & Co.

COPYRIGHT 1894, BY RAND, MCNALLY & CO.

PUBLISHER'S PREFACE.

The World's Columbian Exposition has afforded woman an unprecedented opportunity to present to the world a justification of her claim to be placed on complete equality with man.

The broad fact that able and earnest women from all quarters of the globe organized for the purpose of gathering evidence and demanding a hearing by the court of assembled nations is generally known. The following pages—written by women eminent as pleaders in the cause—tell eloquently of the detail of their procedure and of the results so far attained.

That their labors will immediately eventuate in the full realization of their hopes can not with reason be expected, but that their efforts have revealed the possession of unexpected powers, and will disperse the mists of ignorant prejudice that at present cloud the question, can not be doubted.

The publishers hail with pleasure the opportunity that the issuance of this volume affords them of adding to the light, and perhaps of hastening the coming of the day when woman will be emancipated from restraints imposed upon her by a worn-out conventionalism absurdly unsuited to our times and conditions.

The illustrations in the original edition of this work were prepared and made by Boussod, Valadon & Co. (successors to Groupil & Co.), in Paris; and the illustrations made by Rand, McNally & Co. appear in the present edition on pages 26, 32, 41, 42, 69, 70, 77, 78, 95, 96, 108, 110, 123, 124, 131, 132, 144, 146, 159, 160, 186, 188, 197, 198, 223, 224, 254, 256, 280, 282, 296, and 298.

GROUND PLAN WOMAN'S BUILDING.
GALLERY PLAN WOMAN'S BUILDING.

CONTENTS.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

NOTE.—The illustrations in the following list are of objects displayed in the Woman's Building. The particular section in which an exhibit is to be found is indicated by the name of the country following the title of each illustration.

ADDITIONAL ILLUSTRATIONS IN THIS EDITION.

PROMINENT OFFICIALS OF THE BOARD OF LADY MANAGERS.

VICE-PRESIDENTS OF THE BOARD OF LADY MANAGERS.

FOREIGN LADY COMMISSIONERS.

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