Midway Plaisance

Romantic people, who like to think of dancing as the poetry of motion, can get a liberal education in muscular poesy by making the rounds of the Midway Plaisance.

The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs

At one o'clock Uncle and Aunt were to occupy rolling chairs in spending the afternoon sight-seeing around Midway Plaisance.

The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs

But Johnny could afford to finish that Saturday walking demurely around with the rest, for the next Monday morning Louis, the train-boy, was to be guard and guide through the mysteries of Midway Plaisance.

The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs

We also hear of his dancing the Virginia reel, and playing "Home, Sweet Home" on his beloved fiddle, at the hanging of the crane, when the New England Log Cabin was opened on the Midway Plaisance.

Frederick Douglass The Colored Orator. 1895

The Exposition site includes a portion of Jackson Park and the Midway Plaisance, an area of 664 acres, with a frontage of one and one-half miles on the lake (Michigan).

World`s Columbian Exposition at Chicago Unknown 1893

Colonial Exhibit, where they vaguely expected something like the agreeable corruptions of the Midway Plaisance.

Their Silver Wedding Journey — Complete William Dean Howells 1878

So did our party from the _Dolphin_, for a half hour or more; then they returned to Midway Plaisance, and finding that the moon had risen, sought the Ferris Wheel, and ascending in it had a beautiful view of the White

Elsie at the World's Fair Martha Finley 1868

The restoration of Loredo Taft's mammoth sculpture on the Midway Plaisance has been expensive and time-consuming, but as the bandages come off a true masterpiece is being revealed.

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Time, the massive cast-concrete sculpture that's occupied the west end of the Midway Plaisance in Hyde Park since 1922.

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Sited at the west end of the Midway Plaisance in Washington Park, it features a 16-foot-high figure of Father Time standing beside a pool of water (it's not a fountain per se); on the opposite side is a 120-foot-long "march of humanity" -- 100 figures, in front and in back, "all hurrying and crowding toward a goal they cannot see," as Taft wrote.

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