Buzzell, Edgar A. Collection 1892-1910

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Buzzell, Edgar A. Collection 1892-1910

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The Edgar A. Buzzell Collection consists of glass plate negatives, two photograph albums, newspaper articles, and a painting. The bulk of the collection consists of glass plate negatives of the University of Chicago, Hyde Park, the World’s Columbian Exposition (1893), and downtown Chicago, IL. A smaller portion of the collection is an assortment of collegiate and family photographs.

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World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)

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The World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World’s Fair, was organized in celebration of the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s landing in America. The fairgrounds, open from May 1, 1893 until October 30, 1893, were designed by Frederick Law Olmstead and covered more than 630 acres in Jackson Park and the Midway Plaisance. Daniel Burnham oversaw the construction of nearly 200 new buildings for the fair, most of which were designed in the Beaux-Arts style. 27 million peo...

University of Chicago, 1857-1866

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Buzzell, Edgar A.

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Edgar Augustus Buzzell, married to Isetta (Gibson) Buzzell, was a graduate of the Old University of Chicago, class of 1886. Buzzell was from Delevan, Wisconsin. His son, Edgar G. Buzzell, a graduate of Brown University and Purdue, married Virginia Hinkins, a graduate of the University of Chicago, in 1915. From the guide to the Buzzell, Edgar A. Collection, 1892-1910, (Special Collections Research Center University of Chicago Library 1100 East 57th Street Chicago, Illinois 60637 U.S.A...