Editing World's Columbian Exposition (section)

=== Women artists exhibiting ===
{{further|List of women artists exhibited at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition|The Woman's Building (Chicago)}}
[[File:Woman's Building Lemaire poster.png|thumb|Woman's Building Lemaire poster]]

The women artists at the [[The Woman's Building (Chicago)|Woman's Building]] included [[Anna Lownes]],<ref name="Tufts(U.S.)1987">{{cite book|author1=Eleanor Tufts|author2=National Museum of Women in the Arts (U.S.)|author3=International Exhibitions Foundation|title=American women artists, 1830–1930|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EvxPAAAAMAAJ|year=1987|publisher=International Exhibitions Foundation for the National Museum of Women in the Arts|isbn=978-0-940979-01-7|author1-link=Eleanor Tufts}}</ref> Viennese painter [[Rosa Schweninger]], and many others.<ref name="austrian1893">{{cite web|title=Austrian Women Painters: 1893 Chicago World's Fair & Exposition|work=Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893|access-date=2014-11-09|url=http://arcadiasystems.org/academia/cassatt10dd.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141109164709/http://arcadiasystems.org/academia/cassatt10dd.html|archive-date=2014-11-09|url-status=live}}</ref> American composer [[Amy Cheney Beach]] was commissioned by the [[Board of Lady Managers of the World's Columbian Commission|Board of Lady Managers]] of the fair to compose a choral work (Festival Jubilate, op. 17) for the opening of the Woman's Building.<ref name="auto" /> The [[Mary Florence Potts|Mrs Potts sad-iron system]] was on display.<ref name=FairFavorite>{{cite web |url=http://elliepresents.com/interpretations/a-visit-with-mrs-potts-2/ |title=A Visit with Mrs. Potts |author=<!--Not stated--> |website=Costumed Interpretations |publisher=Ellie Presents |access-date=May 13, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170820033301/http://elliepresents.com/interpretations/a-visit-with-mrs-potts-2/ |archive-date=2017-08-20 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Ami Mali Hicks]]' stencil design was selected to adorn the [[frieze]] in the assembly room of the Women's Building.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|title=Miss Amy Hick's Design |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/13198810/miss_amy_hicks_design_the_world_new/|access-date=19 August 2017|newspaper=[[The New York World]]|date=April 8, 1893|location=New York|page=8|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170819233708/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/13198810/miss_amy_hicks_design_the_world_new/|archive-date=2017-08-19|url-status=live}} {{open access}}</ref> Musicologist Anna Morsch and composer [[Charlotte Sporleder]] presented a program of German music.<ref name=":0" />

The Woman's Building included a Woman's Building Library Exhibit, which had 7,000 books – all by women. The Woman's Building Library was meant to show the cumulative contribution of the world's women to literature.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Library An Illustrated History|last=Murray |first=Stuart |publisher=Skyhorse Publishing |year=2009|isbn=978-1-60239-706-4|location=New York, NY|page=[https://archive.org/details/libraryillustrat0000murr/page/207 207] |url=https://archive.org/details/libraryillustrat0000murr/page/207}}</ref>