1893 World's Columbian Exposition: Key Resources

Annual Reports

• Beginning with the very first annual report of the Museum, (Annual Reports of the Director to the Board of Trustees 1894-1895), early annual reports are richly detailed with lists of accessions, descriptions of expeditions, and names of important figures in the history of The Field Museum.
• Access every annual report by year and type from this page of The Field Museum website. 

Field Columbian Museum Historical Series 

• An historical and descriptive account of the Field Columbian Museum; v. 1, no.1 

Newsletters

Articles about the World's Columbian Exposition and founding of The Field Museum and its collections are all freely available through the library's partnership with the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL):

• Carter-DeVale, Sue. 1978. "The Gamelan." Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin 49, no. 1 (January): 3-12.
• Carter-DeVale, Sue. 1977. "Rebirth of the Gamelan." Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin 48, no. 10 (November): 22-23.
• Cole, Douglas. 1985. "The Northwest Coast Collection at the Columbian Exposition." Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin 40, no. 5 (November): 11-20.
• Collier, Donald. 1969. "Chicago Comes of Age: The World's Columbian Exposition and the Birth of Field Museum." Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin 40, no. 5 (May): 2-7.
• Cottle, Judith. 1981."Edward E. Ayer and W.M. Flinders Petrie, 'Founding Fathers' of the Egyptian Collection." Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin 52, no. 10 (November): 33-35.
• Farrington, Oliver C. 1930. "A Brief History of Field Museum from 1893 to 1930." Field Museum News 1, no. 1 (January 1930): 1, 3 and continuing in each succeeding issue concluding in v. 2, no. 2 (February 1931): 4.
• Field, Stanley. 1943. "Fifty Years of Progress; Some History of Field Museum (1893-1943)." Field Museum News 14, no. 9-10 (September-October): 3-10.
• "Field Museum from the Ground up." 1980. Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin 51, no. 5 (May): 20-23.
• Pomerantz, Louis. 1978. "Restoration of the Gamelan."  Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin 49, no. 1 (January): 13-18.
• Van Stone, James. 1986. "Robert E. Peary: Arctic Explorer and Collector for the World's Columbian Exposition." Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin 57, no. 5 (May): 18-23.
• Van Stone, James. 1986. "Miner W. Bruce: Reindeer Herder, Showman, and Collector for the World's Columbian Exposition." Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin 57, no. 7 (July/August): 19-25.
• Webber, E. Leland. 1984."Books, Business, and Buckskins." Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin 55, no. 7 (July/August): 5-10, 19-25.
• Williams, Patricia M. "Chicago Original: The Burnham Plan and Field Museum." Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin 39, no. 5 (May 1968): 8-12.