Disposing of modernity : the archaeology of garbage and consumerism during Chicago's 1893 World's Fair /
Rebecca S. Graff.
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, (c)2020.
- 1 online resource (xvi, 203 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: The Vanishing Fair and the Enduring Home -- Situating the Sites in Chicago: Elite Networks and Archaeology -- Temporalities as Ideologies -- Domesticity and Social Life -- Consumption and Conspicuous Disposal -- Conclusion: At the Center of the World, Again.
"Through archaeological and archival research from sites associated with the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, this book explores the changing world of urban America at the turn of the twentieth century"--
9780813057552 9780813058702
2020001904
Refuse and refuse disposal--Social aspects--Illinois--Chicago. Exhibitions--History--Illinois--Chicago--19th century.