SH Archive 1898 and 1899: Trans-Mississippi and Greater America Expositions in Omaha

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Username: Banta
Date: 2019-10-04 20:14:24
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Regarding baby incubators, while looking into other expos:

Baby incubator exhibits were an expected feature on exposition midways from the 1896 Berlin Exposition on. Visitors to Omaha's Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition in 1898, Buffalo's Pan-American Exposition in 1901, St. Louis's Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1904, and Portland's Lewis and Clark Exposition in 1905 experienced a similar concession. (At most of these, including the Lewis and Clark Exposition, the Baby Incubator Exhibit was managed by Dr. Martin Couney, the foremost promoter of the baby incubator sideshows at expositions. Couney's Baby Incubator Exhibit at Luna Park in New York's Coney Island ran from 1903 to 1943. Although A-Y-P's Baby Incubator Exhibit bears a strikingly similar physical resemblance to Couney's baby incubator shows, no connection between Couney and the A-Y-P has yet been discovered.)

Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (1909): Baby Incubator Exhibit and Cafe

It would be interesting to create a spreadsheet of what exhibits were at what expos. There is GREAT overlap. I got to this piece of information trying to discern which expos after 1893 had Ferris wheels.

 

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Username: jdw10
Date: 2020-07-16 22:18:00
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I live in Omaha and l remember in skool they talked about this expo (briefly) and the history teacher reiterated or rather regurgitated that these were made of temporary materials and were white washed. I didn't think much of it considering i would of been like 8 years old. Now knowing what l know about other grand expos i have know doubt that these were the real deal from eons ago. Interestingly, like 15 years ago a local news station had a story about how there is a bunch old structures under the Old Market (downtown hot spot with old buildings). I've been looking but haven't been able to find it unfortunately.