Guide to the World's Columbian Exposition Scrapbooks, 1893-1893

  • Identification31/6/154
  • Title
    • Guide to the World's Columbian Exposition Scrapbooks
    • World's Columbian Exposition Scrapbooks
  • Date
    • 1893-1893
    • 1893
  • OriginationRaddin, Belle Alling, 1864-1930 Raddin, Charles S. (Charles Salisbury), 1863-1930
  • Physical Description2.00
  • RepositoryNorthwestern University Archives Deering Library, Room 110 1970 Campus Dr. Evanston, IL, 60208-2300 URL: http://www.library.northwestern.edu/archives Email: archives@northwestern.edu Phone: 847-491-3354
  • AbstractThree scrapbooks, compiled by residents of Evanston, Illinois, document the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in clippings, images, and souvenir items.

Belle Alling was born October 25, 1864, in Evanston, Illinois. The daughter of Rev. J.H. Alling and Isabel J. Alling, Raddin attended Chicago public high schools and matriculated to the College of Liberal Arts at Northwestern University. She graduated from Northwestern in 1888, a member of Phi Beta Kappa honorary, Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, and recipient of the university’s Botany Prize. Alling married Charles S. Raddin, a fellow Northwestern alumnus, on June 28, 1892, in Evanston. The couple had one daughter, Louise, born January 4, 1898. Belle Raddin was a prominent Evanstonian, one of the first members and presidents of the Evanston Woman’s Club (1907-1908) as well as the president of the University Guild (1918-1920). Raddin was involved in church and social circles in Evanston. She and her husband moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1921 and returned to Evanston in 1929. Belle Raddin died on May 29, 1930.

  • Names
    • World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)--Buildings
    • World’s Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
  • Geographic CoverageChicago (Ill.)--Description and travel
  • SubjectBuildings--Illinois--Chicago

These scrapbooks were acquired by the Northwestern University Archives prior to 1974 (Accession #14-20).

Belle and Charles Raddin’s three scrapbooks contain clippings, images and souvenir items relating to the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, a world’s fair held at Chicago, Illinois, celebrating the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s landfall in the western hemisphere. The three scrapbooks each pertain to a certain aspect of the Exposition. One volume provides an overview of the fair and its international aspects as shown through newspaper clippings and graphic images. The second volume holds information and images pertaining to the buildings and pavilions built specifically for the Exposition. The third volume features information and images, largely newspaper clippings, pertaining to the newly constructed Art Institute of Chicago and the art collections displayed during the fair.