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Title: The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: White, Trumbull, 1868-1941 Igleheart, William, (from old catalog) joint author
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: Philadelphia and St. Louis, P.W. Ziegler & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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han by actual demonstration that in industry, the professions, thesciences and arts, discrimination upon the score of sex was solelythe result of mutable conditions. Those conditions, the Board de-voutly hopes, will have been greatly altered by the close of theExposition. The influence of the Board has been efficient in theadvantageous installation of exhibits by women, and it has stood as afirm defender of their rights between them and oriant manufactories,with means and power, clamoring for every foot of space. INTRODUCTION TO WOMANS DEPARTMENT. 441 The provision of the Act of Congress that the Board of LadyManagers appoint a jury of her peers to pass judgment uponwomans work was the most siornificant feature of the innovation ofthe Boards creation, for never before had it been thought necessaryto apply this fundamental principle of justice to our sex. Theunusual privilege has been duly valued by the Board, and will beexerted to the utmost in the interests of w^omen. And in the same
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DECORATION OF WOMANS BUII.DING. connection may be mentioned an additional privilege, securedthrough the application of the Board to Congress. This is thebestowal upon women artisans of duplicate awards. There is noprecedent for this. Up to the present time, at all former exposi-tions, the great firms supplying the materials from which exhibitswere made had received the reward; and the humble worker,whose intelligence and skill had fashioned the beautiful or usefulthing, remained unrecognized. It is the highly esteemed pleasureof the Board of Lady Managers of the Worlds Columbian Expo- 442 INTRODUCTION TO WOMANS DEPARTMENT. sitlon tc correct this inequality. Owing to their precaution inobtaining permission to incorporate in exhibitors blanks an inquiryas to the proportion of womens work entering into all exhibits theyare prepared to ask the name and address of all women whosehandiwork wins a prize. The bestowal of these duplicate awardswill not only encourage many women bowed under the

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