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Ackelow, Herman

Adams, Mrs. C. A. (pseud.)

Adams, Henry

Adams Express Company

Addams, Jane

Adler, Dankmar

“After the Ball”

Agnew, Francis

Agnew & Co.

Aheze (Amazon)

alcoholism, cures for

Allerton, Samuel W.

alternating current

Altgeld, John P.

“America”

American Railway Union

Anthony, Susan B.

Archie (Algerian)

architecture:

acoustical design in

of bridges

Chicago School of

of cities

classical

competition within

of the fair, see World’s Columbian Exposition

form following function in

foundations in

grillage in

imitation in

inventions in

landscape

load-bearing metal frame in

nature and purpose of

“Prairie” designs

public perception of

of skyscrapers

soil problem of

stone pyramids in

twentieth-century debates about

Armbrust, Mrs. J.

Armour, Philip

Armstrong, Maitland

Arnold, Charles Dudley

Arnold, C. W.

Around the World in Eighty Days

Astor, Mrs. William

Atwood, Charles B.

Aunt Jemima’s pancake mix

automobile, Burnham’s faith in

Avery Salt Mines

 

Bacon, Henry

bacteriology

Baker, Ray Stannard

Baker, William

Bank of England

Barber, O. Z.

Baring Brothers & Co.

Barlow, Thomas W.

Barnum, P. T.

Barrows, Rev. Dr. J. H.

Baum, L. Frank

Belknap, Jonathan

Belknap, Myrta Z.

Bellamy, Francis J.

Beman, Solon S.

Berkler, Joseph E.

Berry, John

Bertillon, Alphonse

Besant, Sir Walter

Biltmore mansion

Black, Rev. Dr. W. C.

Bloom, Sol

Bond, Alexander (pseud.)

Borden, Lizzie

Boston:

Burnham’s work in

Holmes arrested in

Bowman, George

Boyington, W. W.

Brady, Diamond Jim

Braille, invention of

Brooklyn Bridge

Brooks, Peter Chardon III

Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show

Burbank, Lucy

Burlington, Vermont, Holmes in

Burnham, Daniel (son)

Burnham, Daniel Hudson

aboard the Olympic

advice given to

as architect

at architects’ dinner

biography of

birth and early years of

career of

as chief of construction

competition of

death of

degrees from Harvard and Yale to

denied admission to Harvard and Yale

as director of works

as environmentalist

and fair’s closing

foot problem of

health of

at inquest on fire

interest in the supernatural

and Midway ball

New York travel of

and Olmsted

on Opening Day

partnership of Root and, see Burnham & Root

physical appearance and personality of

and preliminary plans

and Root’s death

shanty of

and site selection

social pressures on

and time constraints

as urban planning consultant

Burnham, Frank P.

Burnham, Margaret Sherman

children of

courtship and marriage of

husband’s letters to

later years of

Burnham & Root

competition of

as lead fair designers

problems of

skyscrapers built by

spirit in

Stone Gate by

Burnham Park

 

cadavers, for medical schools

Campbell, Hiram S. (pseud.)

Campbell-Yates Manufacturing Company

Capen, John L.

Capp, William

Capp & Canty

Carse, Mrs. T. B.

Carter H. Harrison Associations

Cassatt, Alexander

Catherwood, Mary Hartwell

Central Park, New York

Century Club, Chicago

Chalmers, William J.

Chamberlin, George B.

Chappell, Charles

Chemical National Bank, Chicago

Chicago,

accidental deaths in

architects in

Auditorium in

bank failures in

bicycle craze in

brothels in

citywide plans for

civic pride of

“cliff-dwellers” in

competition for fair in

disappearances in

filth in

fires in

gas lamps in

Grannis Block in

growth of

gumbo of

Hull House in

as industrial center

Kinsley’s Restaurant in

labor movement in

“the Loop” in

Miracle Mile of

Montauk Block in

opportunity in

politics in

population of

real estate in

Rookery in

skyscrapers in

soil problems of

stockyards in

suburbs of

trains in

unemployment in

vice and violence in

as “Windy City”

World’s Fair in, see World’s Columbian Exposition

young women moving to

Chicago & Alton Railroad

Chicago Club

Chicago House Wrecking Company

Chicago Limited

Chicago River

Chicago School of architecture

Chicago Tribune, 31, 59–60, 153, 310, 336

Cigrand, Dr. and Mrs. B. J.

Cigrand, Emeline

Cigrand, Peter

Cincinnati, search for children in

City Beautiful movement

Cleckley, Hervey

Clemmons, Katherine

Cleveland, Grover

Cleveland, Ohio, city plans for

Cobb (architect)

Codman, Henry Sargent “Harry,”

Cody, Louisa

Cody, William “Buffalo Bill,”

Cody, Wyoming, founding of

Columbia Cook Book, The (Hollingsworth)

“Columbian March”

Columbus, Christopher

Columbus Day

Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur

Congress, U.S.:

and fair’s finances

and site selection

and Sunday closings

Conner, Gertrude

Conner, Julia

Conner, Ned (Icilius)

Conner, Pearl

Cook, Alex E. (pseud.)

Cooling, W. F.

Corbett, James J.

Cotton, Sallie

Coughlin, Bathhouse John

Cowie, F. G.

Cracker Jack

Cregier, DeWitt C.

Crowe, Mr. and Mrs. John

Cuddy, Alf

Cumberland Gap

 

Dana, Charles Anderson

Darrow, Clarence

Davis, C. E.

Davis, George R.

Davis, John

Davis, Richard Harding

Dean, Teresa

Debs, Eugene

Decker, L. E.

Denslow, William Wallace

Depew, Chauncey M.

Detroit, Holmes in

Devil

Dewey, Melvil

De Young, Mike

Disney, Elias

Disney, Roy

Disney, Walt

Doyle family

Dredge, James

Dreiser, Theodore

Du Maurier, George

 

Eads, James B.

Eddy, Charles J.

Edison, Thomas A.

Eiffel, Alexandre Gustave

Eiffel Tower

electric chair, first

electricity, alternating current

elevator, invention of

Eliot, Charles

Elliott, Capt. Horace

Ellsworth, James

Empire State Building, New York

Englewood, Illinois:

annexation to Chicago

growth of

Holmes’s arrival in

Erickson (druggist)

Erie Railroad

Essen Works, Germany

Eulalia, Infanta of Spain

Evanston National Bank

 

Ferris, George W. G.

Ferris, Margaret

Ferris Company

Ferris Wheel

in construction

final days of

operation of

romance on

test runs of

Fidelity Mutual Life Association of Philadelphia

Field, Marshall

Field Museum, Chicago

Filene’s building, Boston

Finn, Mickey

Fire Queen,

First National Bank, Chicago

First Presbyterian Church, Chicago

Fitzpatrick, Capt. James

Flatiron Building, New York City

Fogg, Phileas (fict.)

Fort Worth, Texas, Holmes in

Fouse, L. G.

Francis Ferdinand, Archduke

Franke, David

Frazier, A. A.

French, Daniel Chester

 

Gage, Lyman

Garfield, James A.

Gary, W. E.

General Electric Company

George, Henry

Geraldine, Dion

Geyer, Esther

Geyer, Frank

Geyer, Martha

Gimbel’s department store, New York

Ginty, Flora

Gompers, Samuel

Gordon, Henry “Harry” (pseud.)

Gottlieb, Abraham

Graham, Ernest

Graham, George S.

Graves, Dexter

Great Fire (1871)

Greeman, Milton

Gronau, W. F.

Guiteau, Charles

 

Hall, Frank Haven

Hall Braille Writer

Hanson, Mary

Harrison, Benjamin

Harrison, Carter Henry

and American Cities Day

and Annie

campaign for reelection of

and Chicago Day

death and funeral of

and Infanta Eulalia

and Midway ball

and Prendergast

on unemployment

and Waif’s Day

Harrison, Preston

Harrison, Sophie

“Hatch” (fict.)

Hawthorne, Julian

Hayden, Sophia

Hayes, A. C. (pseud.)

Hayes, Laura

Hays, D. S.

Hecht, Ben

Hercules Iron Works

Herrick, Robert

Highleyman, J. W.

Higinbotham, Harlow

Hill, Henrietta

H.M.S. Camperdown

H.M.S. Victoria

Hollingsworth, Adelaide

Holmes, H. H.

arrival in Illinois

book about

building developed by

businesses of

chloroform purchased by

confession of

and Conner family, see Conner, Julia; Conner, Ned; Conner, Pearl

creditors of

death and burial of

and the devil

early years of, see Mudgett, Herman Webster

and Emeline

forgery by

and Georgiana

as Gordon

hotel of, see World’s Fair Hotel

and insurance fraud

memoir of

and missing women

modus operandi of

names used by

pharmacy of

physical appearance and personality of

and Pitezel children

in prison

and Silver Ash Institute

time to leave Chicago

trial of

and Williams sisters, see Williams, Anna; Williams, Minnie R.

wives of

Holmes, Lucy

Holmes, Myrta Z. Belknap

Holton, Mrs. E. S.

Horseshoe Curve

Houdini, Harry

Howard, Annie

Howard, Georgia (pseud.)

Howard, Henry Mansfield (pseud.)

Howe, Mr. and Mrs. G. (pseud.)

Hughes, W. C.

Hull House, Chicago

Humboldt Park, Chicago

Humphrey, B. D.

Humphrey, Cephas

Hunt, Richard M.

Hunt, Robert

 

If Christ Came to Chicago (Stead)

Illinois Central Railroad

Illinois Trust and Savings Company

incandescent bulbs

Indianapolis:

grand jury in

search for children in

Ingalls, John

Iowa State Marching Band

Irvington, Indiana, search for children in

Ismay, J. Bruce

 

Jackson Park

architects’ visit to

entrances to

as fair site; see also World’s Columbian Exposition

permanent structures of

plans for transformation of

soil of

Jack the Ripper

Jefferey, Edward T.

Jenney, William

Johnson, Charlie

Joplin, Scott

Juicy Fruit gum

 

Kansas City, hotel collapse in

Keeley cure for alcoholism

Keller, Helen

Kelly, Mary

Kiler, Charles

Kinetoscope

King, John

Kingsbury, Fred

Kipling, Rudyard

Kirk’s Soap

Klausmann, Caroline

Koch, Robert

Kraus (city official)

Krupp, Fritz

 

Lafayette Collection Agency

Lake Michigan

Latimer, Robert

Laurean, L. G.

Lawrence, Mr. and Mrs. M. B.

Lazarus Silverman bank, Chicago

L’Enfant, Pierre Charles

Leopold, Nathan

Lewis, Mrs. H. B.

Lincoln Memorial

Lindau, Paul

Lloyd, Henry Demarest

Loeb, Richard

Lola (South Sea Islander)

Loring & Jenney

Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904)

Lovering, Clara A.

Lyman, Benton T. (pseud.)

 

McAllister, Ward

McArthur Brothers

McCarthy, Joseph

McClaughry, R. W.

McComber, J. B.

McElroy, J. E.

MacHarg, William S.

McKim, Charles

McKim, Mead and White

McKim, Sarah

McLean Asylum, Olmsted in

Magic Kingdom (Disney)

Manila, citywide plans for

Mann, Henry D.

Masonic Temple, Chicago

Masters, Edgar Lee

Maxwell, John

May, Chicago

Maynard, George W.

Mazhar, Farida

Mead, William R.

Medill, Joseph

Merchant & Co.

Middleton, Doc

Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig

Miles, Gen. Nelson A.

Millet, Francis

as director of color

as director of functions

on Titanic,

Monroe, Harriet

Montgomery Ward

Moore, Charles

Moore, Fannie

Moorman, Elvet

Morgan, G. F.

Morgan, J. Pierpont

Moses, Phoebe Anne (Annie Oakley)

Mount Wilson Observatory

Moyamensing Prison, Philadelphia

Mudgett, Herman Webster

birth and early years of

insurance frauds of

jobs taken by

name change of

wife of

see also Holmes, H. H.

Muirhead, James Fullerton

murder:

death sentence for

motives for

Murphy, Edward W.

Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago

“My Country ’Tis of Thee”

 

National Cordage Company

Nebraska Savings Bank

New York Central Railroad

New York City:

architects in

Burnham’s buildings in

Burnham’s travel to

Central Park in

Columbus celebration in

as cultural center

dinner to honor Burnham in

Flatiron Building in

Madison Square Garden in

Metropolitan Opera House in

population of

as proposed fair site

Northern Pacific Railroad

 

Oakley, Annie

offensive feet, advice to overcome

Oker, John and Lora

Olmsted, Frederick Law

on boats

and Burnham

death of

European trip of

and fair’s closing

and fair’s construction

and fair’s landscaping

and fair’s plans

ill health of

on landscape architecture

in McLean Asylum

personal traits of

reputation of

and site

as supervising architect

Olmsted, John

Olmsted, Mary

Olympic,

Onderdonk, Andrew

O’Rourke, John J.

Otis, Della

Otis, Elisha Graves

Owens, Henry

 

Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer

Padereweski, Ignace Jan

Palace of Fine Arts, Chicago

Palmer, Bertha Honore

Palmer, Potter

Pangalos, George

Panic of 1873

Panic of 1893

Panic of 1907

Paris:

competition with

Eiffel Tower in

Exposition Universelle in

Pasteur, Louis

Patti, Adelina

Peabody, Robert

Peck, Ferdinand W.

Pennsylvania Railroad

Philadelphia:

Centennial Fair in

grand jury in

Holmes in

Holmes’s trial in

Moyamensing Prison in

population of

Pickett, M. B.

Pinchot, Gifford

Pinkerton National Detective Agency

Pitezel, Alice

Pitezel, Benjamin

and building construction

children of

death of

in Fort Worth

and insurance fraud

at Keeley Institute

names used by

physical appearance of

Pitezel, Carrie Canning

Pitezel, Dessie

Pitezel, Howard

Pitezel, Nellie

Pitezel, Wharton

plate glass, development of

Pledge of Allegiance

Poe, Edgar Allan

Poetry magazine

Poet’s Life, A (Monroe)

Post, George B.

Postal Telegraph Company

Pound, Ezra

Prendergast, Patrick Eugene Joseph

Pretyman, William

Prospect Park, Brooklyn

psychopath, use of term

Pullman, George

Putnam, Frederick

 

Quinlan, Patrick

 

Rain-in-the-Face, Chief

“Rattlesnake” Pete

Reading Railroad

Rice, Col. Edmund

Rice, Luther V.

Richards, David

Riis, Jacob

Ritchel, C. F.

Rodney, Lucille

Roebling, John Augustus

Roosevelt, Theodore

Root, Charles T.

Root, Dora Monroe

Root, Elihu

Root, John Wellborn

as architect

artistic nature of

birth and early years of

as bon vivant

death of

as fair’s chief architect

health problems of

partnership of Burnham and, see Burnham & Root

soil problem solved by

travel of

wives of

Root, Mary Walker

Ross, Alexander

Russell, Lillian

Ryves, Thomas

 

Sabbatarian movement

St. Gaudens, Augustus

St. Louis:

bridge over the Mississippi at

Holmes in

as proposed fair site

St. Louis Republic,

St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York

S. A. Kean & Co.

San Francisco, citywide plans for

Satt, Hilda

Saturday Afternoon Club

Schnooks, John

Schufeldt, Lt. Mason A.

Schuyler, Montgomery

Scott, William

Shankland, Edward

Sherman (bull)

Sherman, John B.

Sherman, William Tecumseh

Shredded Wheat

Silver Ash Institute

Sinclair, Upton

Sister Carrie (Dreiser)

Sitting Bull, Chief

Smythe, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew

Soldier Field, Chicago

Standing Bear, Chief

Stanley, Henry

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

Starrett, Paul

“Star-Spangled Banner, The”

Statue of the Republic (“Big Mary”)

Stead, F. Herbert

Stead, William

Steffens, Lincoln

Stewart, Evelyn

Strowers, Mrs.

suffragist movement

Sullivan, John L.

Sullivan, Louis

and Adler

and Auditorium

autobiography of

competition of Burnham and

ego of

fading career of

Golden Door of

Transportation Building by

and World’s Fair

and Wright

Swango, Michael

 

Talmadge, Thomas

Taylor, Mrs. D. C.

Tesla, Nikola

Thomas, J. C.

Thomas, Theodore

Thompson, Jennie

Titanic,

Toronto:

children’s bodies found in

grand jury in

Holmes in

Torture Doctor, The (Franke)

Train, George Francis “Citizen”

Trude, Alfred S.

Tucker, Horace

Turner, Frederick Jackson

Twain, Mark

 

Ulrich, Rudolf

Union League, Chicago

Union Station, Washington, D.C.

Union Stock Yards, Chicago

Bridge of Sighs of

passenger depot of

stench of

Stone Gate of

tours of

Union Trust Company Bank, Chicago

United German Singing Societies

United Nations, charter of

United States, pride in

University Club, Chicago

USS Michigan,

Uzanne, Octave

 

Van Brunt, Henry

Vanderbilt, George Washington

Vaux, Calvert

Veragua, duke of (last living descendent of Columbus)

vertical file, invention of

Villard, Henry

 

Waldorf-Astoria, New York

Walker, John

Wall Street, panic on

Ward, Aaron Montgomery

Warner Glass Bending Company

Washburne, Hempstead

Washington, D.C.:

citywide plans for

as proposed fair site

Washington Park, Chicago

Wathen, W. H.

Watson, Carrie

Watterson, Henry

Waukesha spring water

Weber, Max

Web of Life, The (Herrick)

Wellington Catering Company

Western Union

Westinghouse, George

Westinghouse Electric Company

Wheeler, Candace

Wherritt (panicked man)

White, Rose

White, Sara Osborne

White, Stanford

Whitechapel Club

White Star Line

Wight, Peter

Willard, Frances E.

Williams, Anna “Nannie,”

death of

and Holmes

and Minnie

Williams, Minnie R.

apartment of

birth and early years of

in Chicago

Holmes’s stories about

meeting Holmes

property of

relationship of Holmes and

sister of, see Williams, Anna

Wilson, Woodrow

Wistar Institute, Philadelphia

Wizard of Oz (Baum)

World’s Columbian Exposition (1893)

abandoned buildings of

accidents at

Administration Building

Agriculture Building

American Cities Day

aquarium

architects of

attendence at

balloon (Chicago)

belly dancers in

“Big Mary” (Statue of the Republic)

boats of

challenge of

Chicago Day

Children’s Building

city selected for

closing of

Cold Storage Building

Columbia Fountain

Columbian Guard

construction of

Dedication Day of

Electricity Building

exhibits in

expectations of

Ferris Wheel, see Ferris Wheel

final preparations of

finances of

fires in,

Grand Court of Honor

harmony in

Horticulture Building

idea of

impact of

Independence Day

Krupp Pavilion

and labor unrest

landscaping of

Leather Building

lighting of

Machinery Building

MacMonnies Fountain

magic of

Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building

Midway ball

Midway Plaisance

Mines Building

miracles at

Natatorium

official seal of

Opening Day of

Peristyle,

photography of

profitability of

promotion of

and railroad fares

rainfall on

rough plans of

salvage value of

services in

site selection for; see also Jackson Park

size of

structural integrity of

Sunday closings of

time constraints for

Time-Saver guide to

Transportation Building

water supply of

as White City,

windstorm

Woman’s Building

Wooded Island

World’s Columbian Exposition Company, formation of

World’s Fair Hotel

Anna’s visit to

construction of

destruction of

evidence of deaths in

financing of

guests in

Holmes’s methods in

kiln of

odors in

Wright, Frank Lloyd

Wyckoff, Walter

 

Yates, A. A. (pseud.)

Yoke, Georgiana

 

Zahtoobe (Dahoman),