A Celebration of Women Writers

List of books sent by home and foreign committees to the Library of the Woman's Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893. Compiled for the United States World's Columbian Commission Board of Lady Managers under the direction of Edith E. Clarke.
Edited by
Chicago, Ill.: 1894.


List of the Books
in the
Library of the Woman's Building,
World's Columbian Exposition,
1893.

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BOARD OF LADY MANAGERS OF THE WORLD'S COLUMBIAN COMMISSION CREATED BY ACT OF CONGRESS USA ORGANIZED 1890
FORWARD 1492 1892


LIST OF BOOKS
SENT BY HOME AND FOREIGN COMMITTEES
TO THE
LIBRARY
OF THE
WOMAN'S BUILDING.
WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION.
CHICAGO,
1893.


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PREFACE.

This list has been compiled mainly from the records of books received at the Library of the Woman's Building during the World's Fair. The compilers have used, so far as it was completed, the card catalogue of authors, classes, and biographical statistics of authors, which was prepared at the Library of the Woman's Building from May to August, during the Fair. As the printing of that more elaborate catalogue was found too costly for present means, this brief list is issued to give the public an idea of the extent and value of the exhibit. The compilers have used also the catalogues of the New York and Illinois State Boards of books exhibited by them. The aim is to present a complete record of the more than 7,000 volumes that were actually exhibited. In many cases books named on the lists sent in by the Boards of the different states and countries are shown by the records to have failed to come. If any book is not found in these pages, it must be that that book failed to reach the Woman's Building before the 20th of September, 1893.

The music, of which there was a large and valuable collection, and the many valuable manuscripts have not been included in the list.

Acknowledgements should be made of nearly 4,000 books which are presented as a nucleus of a Woman's Memorial Library.

As it was impossible to have access to the books in the compilation of this list, the compilers recognize that it is far from perfect, and will be glad to receive corrections of its errors.

ELIZABETH P. CLARKE,
EVELYN M. WATKINS,
HELEN F. GILES,
Compilers.

Under the direction of

EDITH E. CLARKE.

Chicago, Aug. 8, 1894.


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LIST OF BOOKS
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LIBRARY OF THE WOMAN'S BUILDING.

 

UNITED STATES.

ALABAMA.

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ARKANSAS.

CALIFORNIA.

COLORADO.

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CONNECTICUT.

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DELAWARE.

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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

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FLORIDA.

GEORGIA.

ILLINOIS.

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INDIANA.

IOWA.

KANSAS.

KENTUCKY.

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LOUISIANA.

MAINE.

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MARYLAND.

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MASSACHUSETTS.

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MICHIGAN.

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MINNESOTA.

MISSISSIPPI.

MISSOURI.

MONTANA.

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NEBRASKA.

NEW HAMPSHIRE.

NEW JERSEY.

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NEW YORK STATE.

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NORTH CAROLINA.

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NORTH DAKOTA.

OHIO.

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OREGON.

PENNSYLVANIA.

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RHODE ISLAND.

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SOUTH CAROLINA.

TENNESSEE.

TEXAS.

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UTAH.

VERMONT.

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VIRGINIA.

WEST VIRGINIA.

WISCONSIN.

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FOREIGN.

ARABIA.

AUSTRIA.

BELGIUM.

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BOHEMIA.

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BRAZIL.

CANADA.

CHINA.

CUBA.

FINLAND.

FRANCE.

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GERMANY.

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GREECE.

HOLLAND.

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ITALY.

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JAPAN.

NORWAY.

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PERU.

POLAND.

PORTUGAL.

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About This Edition

When I saw references to the library of the Woman's Pavilion of the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, I immediately became fascinated by it. What had the library contained? What had happened to it after the exposition?

Some research led me to this listing of books donated to the library from all over the world. The listing was compiled under the auspices of the Board of Lady Managers, from their records. I also learned that the collection was given to the Library of the University of the State of New York after the exposition ended. Unfortunately, the "Women's Library" was subsequently destroyed in the capitol fire of 1911. Descriptions of its contents are all that remains.

This list is a fascinating and intriguing document, in part because it is fragmentary. First names or initials of authors are indicated only when it is necessary to distinguish between multiple authors of the same last name. No indication of the contents of the books is given, beyond their titles. Was Men, women, and things a non-fiction work, a novel, or perhaps even a poetry collection? What issues did the author of Woman and her needs consider to be relevant ? Titles like A Zealot in Tulle and Eight hundred miles in an ambulance catch the eye and intrigue the imagination.

This frozen sample of time and culture tells us what women were writing and reading as of 1893, and what they considered important enough to donate to the exposition. Women's rights and temperance were current concerns. Christian Science was a hot topic. "Non-flesh eating" (vegetarianism) was of some interest. Women were both writing for and editing magazines, from Women's home to the Chicago Legal News and the Stillman Valley Graphic. Women were becoming active in the areas of nursing and medicine, particularly gynæcology and nervous diseases. Here and there a woman was noting the movement of comets in the sky, or the morphology of the carinæ. For many women, however, time and attention were focused on cook-books, church, and child-care, with perhaps an occasional novel to bequile a stolen moment or a quiet day.

The first half of the listing contains the United States donations to the library; the second half donations from foreign countries. We regret that given the restrictions of the diacritical marks for the LATIN-L character set for html, we have not been able to reproduce the diacritical markings for BOHEMIA. In all other country listings, we have endeavoured to reproduce the diacriticals used in the original text. Books which are on-line at the Celebration of Women Writers have been linked to their titles: however, we have not attempted to annotate the listing with books which may be on-line elsewhere.

It should be noted that entries are organized first by the donating state or country, and then by author. As a result, the same author may appear in more than one donor category, often with different titles. If you are interested in a particular author, it is worth searching the entire list.