Virchand Gandhi, Anagarika Dharmapala, Vivekananda , Nikola Tesla |
The event was part of the World's Columbian Exposition, a World's Fair held to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492. The exposition was an influential social and cultural event and had a profound effect on American architecture, the arts, American industrial optimism, and Chicago's image.
IT'S HISTORY Jun 23, 2022
Nice 2o -minute documentary
The event was an important landmark in American history and formed the setting of the opening chapters of Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day, 2006.
A Theosophical Congress was held within the greater Parliament from September 15-17. All six of the credentialed Theosophical Society delegates to the Parliament spoke at the Congress, along with Dr. Jerome A. Anderson, Claude Falls Wright, Mrs. Mercie M. Thirds, Dr. J. D. Buck, and George E. Wright.
A 200-page Proceedings
Report was issued later that year, with full transcripts of all the lectures and speeches.
It was a rather momentous gathering of prominent theosophists, including Matilda Joslyn Gage, L. Frank Baum, (creator of the Wizard of Oz), and Thomas Edison. A good account of this can be found in Finding Oz : How L. Frank Baum Discovered the Great American Story,
Evan I. Schwartz Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009, pp. 200-250
Excellent article that touches upon the complex confluence of Columbian Exposition, Theosophy and Wizard of Oz
The secret life of Oz
The Wizard in the White City
Scott|April 28th, 2021
https://worldsfairchicago1893.com/2021/04/28/the-wizard-in-the-white-city/Gage attended 1893 Parliament of the World's
Religions/World's Columbian Exposition and lobbied for The Woman's Building
Columbian Exposition Books from 2018
https://worldsfairchicago1893.com/2019/01/05/2018-books/Petition Signed by Thomas Edison for Sunday Openings at the World's Columbian Exposition
subjects of the petitions, assemblies, & speeches foreshadowed 20th century debates over social issues, including religion, gender, & race
https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/edison-petition
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